Introduction

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Photographs by Hong Hanna, courtesy of Arts Council Korea

Until its closure in 2025, the Insa Art Space of the Arts Council Korea (Inmigong) served for twenty-five years as a hub for experimental research and practice. As designers of its graphic identity in 2007, we participated in the institution’s final exhibition.

Office for Archival Reproduction Archive is a folder of photocopied documents created in 2006 at the Office for Archival Reproduction, an installation we made as part of Inmigong’s identity-searching exhibition Frame Builders. The Office, installed in the Inmigong Archives on the second floor of the building, involved an intervention in the Archives’ photocopier and aimed to explore how visitors used the machine to duplicate materials: a way to understand the Archives’ “identity” through the collective residues of participants’ uncoordinated actions.

After the exhibition, the folder of photocopies was stored in our archive and remained there for nearly twenty years. When Inmigong held its final exhibition, we retrieved the folder from our storage and returned it to its original location. How did visitors use the space in its early days? What did they expect, and what did they take away? From these remnants, can we glimpse what Inmigong could or could not have become?