Jeamin Cha

Walking on the Chairs
Single channel video installation, 2020, FHD video, 10minutes, color/sound

There are people cleaning the stadium, where excitement and cheers pass by. They take charge of each floor of seats and clean up the garbage. When the difference in the cleaning skills and speed is revealed, it looks like a sport or competition walking on the seats. As these scenes are shown, the collected conversations are readout. It is about the “tips and advice when working" and so-called "honey tips" that workers tell each other. These "honey tips" are the worry and sympathy shared by people in similar situations, but it also openly reveals competition among the classes. Furthermore, it can be interpreted as sharing the methods to survive the colonialism of financial capital. The video work, Walking on the Chairs tries to describe what a contemporary 'solidarity' is, paying attention to the language that shares a sense of survival. It also emphasizes that solidarity is not just compassion. As the people's history of the Non-Aligned Movement demonstrated, solidarity will never be a purely heroic act. Representatives, organizations, and leaders of the people have made numerous mistakes and written histories of struggle, but solidarity is also about containing contradictions and complexity.

A Film by 
Jeamin Cha

Cast
Go Unji
Soonryang Kim 
Namgung Kang
Hyejin Byun
Son Hyunseon
Hyobeen SON
Dongkyu Yoo
Younhui YU
Seungsik Lee
Kyungchae Chun

Voice Appearance  
Qin Shuang

Assistant Director Seung Namgung
Director of Photography Jisoo Kwon
Camera B Kang Jung Kyun
Research Assistant Hyejin Byun
Translation (Chinese) Myungkyo Hong 
Translation (English) Achim Koh
Sound Design Morceau. J. Woo

Location 
Bucheon Stadium

With Special Thanks to
Sungwon Kim, Sangjin Baik, Myungkyo Hong  

Commissioned by Asia Culture Center, Gwangju