Jeamin Cha

Nameless Syndrome Patch Version
Single channel video, 2022, 4K, 24 minutes, color/sound

Nameless Syndrome concerns the constant reduction of the self through digitization. Often unidentifiable illnesses are dismissed as trivial or psychological, yet there is a growing number of women suffering from conditions that are overseen by society that holds medical science as the ultimate truth. Rather than relying on body imaging during diagnoses for such patients, it is more important to listen the patients’ particular use of language. Medical imaging does not always guarantee empirical veracity. This is not only due to technological inadequacies nor due to a diseased area exceptionally difficult to capture digitally. Medical imaging fails to capture the nature of modern illnesses based on symptomatic and political complexity. Composed of five chapters, this essay uses narration and juxtaposition to layer reflection of bodied in mirror, glass, and water inside an examination room. This work focuses on the objectification of a body as a private space through its manifestation as an image, and the alienation of the corporeal subject from its image. While seeking to understand the various possibilities of experiencing an image lacking its subjecthood, this work examines the consequences that entail the effort to recognize the subject.

Since exhibiting at Art Spectrum 2022, Nameless Syndrome was remastered after re-shooting the fifth chapter of the work. This version is known as a patch version. Normally a term referring to bug fixes or error updates in a game software, patch version is the term used by myself to refer to the edited version.

Narrator
Hyun Park

Recording Engineer
Jo Yong Ki

Radiology Technologists
Kim Jiyoung

Testee
Sum Chun

Auditory Technologists
Ryu Jimin

Testee
Kim Minji

Watsu Giver
Kang Roze

Watsu Receiver
Lee Dawool

Hearing Aid wearer
Haejune Hwang

Audiologist
Kyunhee Jang 

Hearing Aid Repair Engineer
Park Kinam 

A Film by
Jeamin Cha

Producer
Seung Namkoong

Director of Photography
Oh Heewon

Camera Assistant
Heesu Choi
Park Jihye
Jeong Hyunsoo

Sound Recording
Seyeon Oh

Sound Mixing and Design
Guenchae Kim
(Punktire Studio)

Assistant Director
Hyejin Byun

Translator
Cheeyeon Park

With Thanks to
Kyunghwa Koo
Kim Dahyun
Hyewon Kim
Jun Joung Woo
Shin Jaideok,
Dongseok Shin
Jiwon Lee
Mina Ha
Han songyee

The director expresses special gratitude to those who participated in the interview for research.
Kim Minji
Kim Hera
Hyun Park
Boo Eng Ee
Song Bokyung
Lee Dawool
Sum Chun
Jeong Hyunsoo
Haejune Hwang

The director expresses special gratitude to the artist, Rho Eunjoo for lending her work.
The Shape of Disappearing, 2017 

Location
Sodam Studio
Dr.Han’s breast clinic
Hearing Hub (Ilsan)
Goyang Sports Rehabilitation Center
Phonak Hearing Aids (Dongjak)
Dongsan Hearing Aids (Gangnam)

Commissioned by
Leeum Museum of Art

Supported by
Korean Film Council