AT THE SURISOL UNDERWATER LAB

by Ayoung Kim


Fiction I South Korea I 17' I 2021


*The work is commissioned by Busan Biennale, for exhibition setting. Preferred to be exhibited, rather than screened.


In the wake of climate change and depletion of natural resources brought on by fossil fuels, eco-friendly bio-fuels have become society’s main energy source. In the Korean city of Busan, a “biomass town” has been established along the East Sea coastline. Surisol Underwater Lab, which manages an integrated process involving seaweed farming, water quality, ocean currents, and biomass, is also located in the area of the Oryukdo Islands. Sohila, a senior researcher at the lab, has just returned to the lab after taking a month-long vacation. She hears bad news from Surisol and out to conduct reconnaissance in the waters in question.


The character Sohila was played by Sohila AlBna'a, a Yemeni migrant living in Korea.


2020 Busan Biennale



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ํ”ฝ์…˜ I ํ•œ๊ตญ I 17' I 2021


2020๋…„ ๋ถ€์‚ฐ๋น„์—”๋‚ ๋ ˆ๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ œ์ž‘๋œ ๋ณธ ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ๋Š” ํŒฌ๋ฐ๋ฏน ์ดํ›„ ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์šด ๋ฏธ๋ž˜์˜ ์ƒํ™ฉ์„ ์‹œ๋ฎฌ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜ํ•ด ๋ณด๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋ณ€ ์„œ์‚ฌ(speculative fiction)์ด๋‹ค.


ํ™”์„์—ฐ๋ฃŒ๊ฐ€ ์ดˆ๋ž˜ํ•œ ๊ธฐํ›„๋ณ€ํ™”์™€ ์ž์› ๊ณ ๊ฐˆ์˜ ๊ฐ€์†ํ™” ํ›„ ์นœํ™˜๊ฒฝ ๋ฐ”์ด์˜ค ์—ฐ๋ฃŒ๊ฐ€ ์ฃผ ์—๋„ˆ์ง€์›์ด ๋œ ์‚ฌํšŒ, ํ•ด์กฐ๋ฅ˜ ์—ฐ๋ฃŒ๊ฐ€ ์„ธ๊ณ„์˜ ์ฃผ ์—๋„ˆ์ง€์›์œผ๋กœ ์“ฐ์ด๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค. ํ•œ๊ตญ ๋ถ€์‚ฐ์—๋„ ๊ธฐ์žฅ์—์„œ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์˜ค๋ฅ™๋„ ๊ทผํ•ด์— ์ด๋ฅด๋Š” ๊ธด ํ•ด์•ˆ์„ ๋”ฐ๋ผ ๋ฐ”์ด์˜ค๋งค์Šค ํƒ€์šด์ด ํ˜•์„ฑ๋˜์—ˆ๊ณ , ๋‹ค์‹œ๋งˆ ์–‘์‹๊ณผ ์ˆ˜์งˆ, ํ•ด๋ฅ˜, ๋ฐ”์ด์˜ค๋งค์Šค ๊ณต์ •์„ ํ†ตํ•ฉ ๊ด€๋ฆฌํ•˜๋Š” ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์†Œ์ธ ์ˆ˜๋ฆฌ์†” ์ˆ˜์ค‘ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์†Œ(Surisol Underwater Lab)๊ฐ€ ์˜ค๋ฅ™๋„ ๋ถ€๊ทผ ํ•ด์ €์— ์ž๋ฆฌ ์žก๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค. ํ•œ ๋‹ฌ์˜ ํœด๊ฐ€ ํ›„ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์†Œ์— ๋Œ์•„์˜จ ์†Œํ•˜์ผ๋ผ๋Š” AI ์ˆ˜๋ฆฌ์†”๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋ฐ”์ด์˜ค ์—ฐ๋ฃŒ์ธ ๋‹ค์‹œ๋งˆ ๊ฒฝ์ž‘์— ๋ฐฉํ•ด๊ฐ€ ๋˜๋Š” ์œ ํ•ด์กฐ๋ฅ˜ ๋…์†Œ ํฌ์ž๋ฅผ ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌํ–ˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๋ณด๊ณ ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›๊ณ  ์ฆ‰์‹œ ์ •์ฐฐ์„ ๋‚˜๊ฐ„๋‹ค. ์ •์ฐฐ ๋„์ค‘ ๋Œ€ํ˜• ์˜ค์ง•์–ด ๋–ผ์™€ ๋‚œ๋ฅ˜๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋‚˜ ์œ„ํ—˜์— ๋น ์ง„ ์†Œํ•˜์ผ๋ผ๋Š” ์ด์œฝ๊ณ  ๋ฌด์ค‘๋ ฅ๊ณผ๋„ ๊ฐ™์€ ๊ธฐ์–ต ์†์œผ๋กœ ์นจ์ž ํ•˜๊ณ , 2020๋…„ ์ „ ์„ธ๊ณ„๋ฅผ ํœฉ์“ด COVID-19๋กœ ์ธํ•œ ํŒ๋ฐ๋ฏน ์‹œ๊ธฐ์— ํ•œ๊ตญ์—, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ทธ์—๊ฒŒ ๋ฌด์Šจ ์ผ์ด ์žˆ์—ˆ๋Š”์ง€๋ฅผ ํšŒ์ƒํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋œ๋‹ค.


์˜ˆ๋ฉ˜์ธ ์ด์ฃผ ์—ฌ์„ฑ ์†Œํ•˜์ผ๋ผ ์•Œ๋ธŒ๋‚˜๊ฐ€ ์†Œํ•˜์ผ๋ผ ์—ญ์„ ์—ฐ๊ธฐํ–ˆ๋‹ค.


2020 ๋ถ€์‚ฐ๋น„์—”๋‚ ๋ ˆ