Intangible Heritage is a Karaoke video essay featuring an electronic version of a two-thousand year old folk song, which South Korea and North Korea both registered separately as their own for the UNESCO Intangible Heritage list in 2012 and 2014, respectively. The song is collaged with excerpts of public audio and text documents from the institutionalization process that took place with an intergovernmental committee in Paris, France. The bureaucratic narrative is disrupted with translations and mistranslations of the lyrics, and perpetual panning views of fragmented lands. The landscapes never stop moving.
Jesse Chun is an artist living and working in New York.
Wendy's Subway is a non-profit reading room, writing space, and independent publisher providing an open and versatile platform for expanding modes of reading, writing, and publishing together.
