BURIAL OF THIS ORDER, 2022
Single channel film. 4K. Color. Duration: 25:30 min. 5.1 surround sound / stereo sound.
Sometimes exhibited with Dokkaebi (video 3:45 min), Sorrow Waters This Land (video 11:11 min), and A World Stolen in the Depths of Time, 2022 (4 bamboo poles with textile banners, each 163x35cm mounted onto bamboo poles.
In Burial of This Order, a procession of non-conforming people – from musicians, artists, and poets to anti-miliary activists, environmentalists, and diasporic, queer, and trans people - come together to undo a world order built upon hierarchy and division by performing a burial. Together they carry a coffin through the ruins of what turns out to be an abandoned resort in Jeju Island. It soon becomes clear that this is no traditional funeral. Age and gender roles are subverted, the coffin is draped in dark camouflage colours and the portrait of the deceased is replaced with a black mirror.
In the field between funeral ritual, political protest, and carnival performance, the people in the procession march through the ruins of capitalist modernity. Time and place begin to destabilize as mythical Dokkaebi deities pass through the building, while heavy rain and wind blow through its cavities. As if possessed, the group, in a moment of revolutionary fervor, overthrows and dismantles the scaffolding of the prevailing order, and other stories begin to take form.
Exhibition view: Ceremony (Burial of an Undead World), October 23–December 30, 2022, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin, exhibition view, photo: Studio Bowie / HKW
Burial of this Order - Trailer
Directed and edited by Jane Jin Kaisen. Director of photography: Daniel Zox. Line producer: Soyoung Kwon. Script: Jane Jin Kaisen, Anselm Franke. Gimbal photography: Guston Sondin-Kung. Art director: Abhijan Toto. Composer and sound mix: Udo Lee featuring: "4 + 3 = 1 RadioBook 5" recorded and produced by bela. Performers: bela, d. yaejin bang, Boram Hong, Okgwa, Mijounga, Jina Bak, bandi, Gyeol Ko, Dan Kim, Jeanjacques, Seorim Kim, Soyoon, e-sang, James Gui, Sookie Kwak, Oksusu, Choi Sung-hee, Holly Yu, Jiyoung Wi, Jeijin Kim, Sungeun Lee, Maja Lee Langvad, Sollee Kim, Jungle, Daeyoung Ko. Assistant director: Grace Sungeun Kim. Story visualization: Daniel Zox. Conceptual consultancy: Anselm Franke. Assistant camera: Hyeongyong Kim. Assistant producer: Kahee Jeong. Translation of script: Jungweon Mok. Colorist: Edoardo Rebecchi. Behind the scenes photography: Theo Bu. Carpenters: Seokhee Han, Sungwon Cho. Props assistants: Jaejin Kim, Sungeun Lee. Runners: Nata, Kyungho Woo, Sangdo Woo, Yaeem Woo, Yaelin Woo. Bus driver: Donghoon Han. With special thanks: Ahn Hyekyoung, Suh Soonshil, Song Youngmee, Maro, Nanda, Gang Illboo, Kim Changwoo, Kim Heesuk, Kim Jaehyun, Sung Kyunghee, Soosan, Kim Seongnae, Kim Minsook, Won Jonghyo, Jang Dongjin, Stina Hasse Jørgensen, Pujita Guha, The International Center for Knowledge in the Arts, Jeju Contents Agency, Borisol Pension, Holz Aewol. With support from: The Danish Artistic Research Funding Programme, Ministry of Culture, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, The Danish Arts Foundation