갯벌 Tidal Swamp

“Tidal Swamp” is an immersive installation combining object, film, and sound to explore the shifting rhythms of tides, memory, and time. Drawing on Korea’s colonial history as a peninsula and poetic research into oceanic life, the work reflects on structural violence through the metaphor of wave-tides. Objects made from found natural materials embody the stillness of the ebb tide, while a film—framed as the window of a submerged vessel—documents a performance with these objects, evoking the movement of the flow tide. Sound generated from both the objects and natural sources flows through speakers embedded in the installation, activating the space as a resonant field of listening.
 

By presenting two temporalities—one still and material, the other flowing and cinematic—Tidal Swamp creates a space where silence becomes rhythm, and presence becomes part of a shared sonic landscape. The audience is invited to drift between these rhythms, and to become part of a collective wave.