{"id":5377,"date":"2009-09-03T00:00:06","date_gmt":"2009-09-02T15:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sulki-min.com\/wp\/?p=5377"},"modified":"2026-04-30T17:55:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T08:55:23","slug":"please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sulki-min.com\/wp\/please\/","title":{"rendered":"Please"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following is a statement published in <em>Platform in Kimusa<\/em>, exhibition catalog:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Please<\/strong> turns an existing column of the former Defense Security Command Headquarters building into a listening pillar. The viewers are encouraged to actively feel the building by getting closer to the pillar, touching it, hugging and listening to it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Please<\/strong> doubly complicates the distinction between the public and the private. First, a visitor to the public exhibition is provided with a potentially intimate experience of physically engaging with the site: the transformed pillar makes a very small volume of sound, only audible when one contacts one\u2019s ear directly with the structure. The experience cannot be shared with others. Secondly, the nature of the sound from within, recorded voices reading various personal questions posted on the Internet, also disturbs the boundary between the public and the private.<\/p>\n<p>Anguished, desperate and sometimes apparently absurd, the questions asking for help and consultation \u2013 from \u201cPlease tell me if I should keep loving this man\u201d to \u201cPlease tell me what are the proper public etiquettes for speaking in tongues\u201d \u2013 mostly don\u2019t allow for easy answers. But it doesn\u2019t seem to discourage people from posting their problems on the internet, thousands of them every day, as if they are making confessions or giving prayers.<\/p>\n<p>In many cultures, massive, solid structures that create an unlikely sound have been objects of mystification and worship. They are often treated as sacred mediums, as if the sound they make were the voice of God. <strong>Please<\/strong> is meant to replicate a similar spiritual experience, except the ones who hear the voices are in the position of the wise, the powerful \u2013 not the other way around. But it wouldn\u2019t be a position so unfamiliar to the place itself: where the previous resident, the Defense Security Command, was believed to listen vigilantly to every voice, private or public.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5382\" title=\"Installation view, photo by Myoung-Rae Park\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sulki-min.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/L_please1.jpg\" alt=\"Installation view, photo by Myoung-Rae Park\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[775,3121,3021,4909,829,4355,2641],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-775","category-2009-platform-in-kimusa-former-defense-security-command-headquarters-seoul","category-ambiguous","category-en-post","category-kim-sunjung","category-artifical-grass-digital-audio-played-on-mp3-player","category-samuso"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sulki-min.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sulki-min.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sulki-min.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sulki-min.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sulki-min.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5377"}],"version-history":[{"count":47,"href":"https:\/\/www.sulki-min.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59853,"href":"https:\/\/www.sulki-min.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5377\/revisions\/59853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sulki-min.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sulki-min.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sulki-min.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}