{"id":2947,"date":"2015-12-07T22:59:21","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T20:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trafo-m.de\/dianaartus\/?page_id=2947"},"modified":"2016-03-11T13:06:37","modified_gmt":"2016-03-11T11:06:37","slug":"a-korean-notebook","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/trafo-m.de\/dianaartus\/?page_id=2947","title":{"rendered":"A Korean Notebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A photo book by Diana Artus<br \/>\nAll texts were found on the cover pages of Korean notepads and exercise books<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0<em>It is not hard to learn more. What is hard is to unlearn when you discover yourself wrong.<\/em> &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul id=\"myGallery_61\" class=\"galleryview\"><li><img src=\"http:\/\/trafo-m.de\/dianaartus\/\/wp-content\/gallery\/korean-notebook\/notebook_cover.jpg\" alt=\"notebook_cover\" class=\"full\" \/><\/li><li><img src=\"http:\/\/trafo-m.de\/dianaartus\/\/wp-content\/gallery\/korean-notebook\/notebook_text-imagepage.jpg\" alt=\"notebook_text-imagepage\" class=\"full\" \/><\/li><li><img src=\"http:\/\/trafo-m.de\/dianaartus\/\/wp-content\/gallery\/korean-notebook\/notebook_imagepage.jpg\" alt=\"notebook_imagepage\" class=\"full\" \/><\/li><li><img src=\"http:\/\/trafo-m.de\/dianaartus\/\/wp-content\/gallery\/korean-notebook\/notebook_textpage.jpg\" alt=\"notebook_textpage\" class=\"full\" \/><\/li><li><img src=\"http:\/\/trafo-m.de\/dianaartus\/\/wp-content\/gallery\/korean-notebook\/foto1.jpg\" alt=\"foto1\" class=\"full\" \/><\/li><li><img src=\"http:\/\/trafo-m.de\/dianaartus\/\/wp-content\/gallery\/korean-notebook\/foto3.jpg\" alt=\"foto3\" class=\"full\" \/><\/li><li><img src=\"http:\/\/trafo-m.de\/dianaartus\/\/wp-content\/gallery\/korean-notebook\/foto4.jpg\" alt=\"foto4\" class=\"full\" \/><\/li><li><img src=\"http:\/\/trafo-m.de\/dianaartus\/\/wp-content\/gallery\/korean-notebook\/foto2.jpg\" alt=\"foto2\" class=\"full\" \/><\/li><li><img src=\"http:\/\/trafo-m.de\/dianaartus\/\/wp-content\/gallery\/korean-notebook\/foto5.jpg\" alt=\"foto5\" class=\"full\" \/><\/li><li><img src=\"http:\/\/trafo-m.de\/dianaartus\/\/wp-content\/gallery\/korean-notebook\/foto6.jpg\" alt=\"foto6\" class=\"full\" \/><\/li> <\/ul><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n            jQuery(document).ready(function($) {\n            $('#myGallery_61').galleryView({  show_panels: 1, show_captions: 0, show_filmstrip: 1, panel_width: 600, panel_height: 400, panel_scale: \"nocrop\", transition_speed: 800, transition_interval: 4000, fade_panels: 1, frame_width: 60, frame_height: 40, filmstrip_position: \"bottom\", pointer_size: 8, frame_scale: \"crop\", frame_gap: 5, frame_opacity: 0.3, easing: \"swing\", nav_theme: \"dark\", start_frame: 1, pause_on_hover: 0   });});<\/script>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>The book is designed as a spiral-bound notepad, containing two narrative layers, a visual and a textual one. They blend to a photographic journey through Seoul&#8217;s business and shopping districts as well as through contemporary ethics of achievement and success.<\/p>\n<p>I took all photographs in April and May 2015 in Seoul while being at an artist residency. Apart from strolling through the city\u2019s streets I was also very interested in looking at Korean products in shops and malls. In doing so I soon came across some notebooks and memo pads with strange sentences on top of their cover pages: philosophical thoughts, obviously influenced by Confucianism, talking about \u201cstudying hard\u201d, \u201csuccess\u201d and \u201csuffering\u201d, and written in a sometimes incorrect and funny English. Oscillating between stimulation and reassurance, these veritable &#8220;truisms&#8221; hint at the pressure to perform and to achieve that may be put upon its potential readers \u201cin private life and official time\u201d, as one sentence has it. Philosopher Byung-Chul Han describes his homeland \u2013 which is known for being a tiger economy, a turbo-capitalist and highly technophilic country \u2013 as an example of a \u201cfatigue society&#8221; in terminal stage. It is a characteristic of the fatigue society that its members would never ever admit being tired or nearly burnt-out. When asked &#8220;How are you?&#8221; the performance-oriented subject answers &#8220;Very busy!&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Quickly I realized that being busy all the time was something that also occurred to me while I was in Seoul. As though it were the genius loci of this city, a general atmosphere you can&#8217;t escape. \u201cThere is tiresome, but attractive\u201d \u2013 one of the cover slogans \u2013 perfectly captures the permanent conflict between excitement and exhaustion which I experienced in Seoul. So, when I discovered the notebook wisdoms I saw almost immediately a connection with the photographs of the city, which I was taking at the same time. There was nothing more obvious than to create a compilation from all that collected material. It&#8217;s not only a photo book, but \u2013 as the name suggests \u2013 can also serve as a notebook again. You may fill in the blanks with your own notes, motivated by some cheering slogans and inspired by Korean streetlife. Happy of being busy&#8230; or rather not?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>Artist book, 26 x 19 cm, 109 pages with 61 photographs, Digital offset printing on Soporset Premium Offset 80g paper, Spiral binding<br \/>\nSelf-published in winter 2015<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A photo book by Diana Artus All texts were found on the cover pages of Korean notepads and exercise books &#8211;\u00a0It is not hard to learn more. 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