Cloud projects
‹바다 안의 모든 땅들: 카드 게임(한국 에디션)›, 2022
All the Lands Within the Seas: The Card Game (Korea Edition), 2022
게임 카드와 전시 아카이브 설치
가변 크기
Installation of a set of playing cards and exhibition archive
Variable dimensions
이 연대는 1963년 한 달간 유지되다가 인도네시아의 수카르노 대통령의 대결 정책으로 와해되었다. 마필린도는 일반적으로 범말레이 동남아시아 지역주의를 향한 이상적이지만 실패한 꿈으로 인식된다. 피어룰이 선별한 깃발들은 이런 이상을 추구하는 데 필요한 노동을 표현하기 위해 공들여 꿰맸으며 동시대에서 다시 작용하는 역사를 이야기하고 탈역사적 이상주의의 한계를 비판적으로 바라본다. ‘침낭’을 입고 있는 우주비행사는 마치 배낭 여행객을 연상시키며 열대 관광지로 주목받는 동남아시아와의 연관성을 나타낸다.
이런 부조화스러운 융합 속에서 피어룰의 작품은 묻는다. “마필린도의 실패한 꿈을 애석해하며 재상상하는 인터넷 워리어와 열대 지방을 꿈꾸는 배낭 여행객은 얼마나 다른가? 역사와 지역을 동시대적, 국가주의적으로 동원하는 것은 과거로의 단기 관광과 뭐가 다른가?”
A storytelling card game, All the Lands Within the Seas was released alongside an exhibition of the same name that sought to unpack and complicate a visual history of maritime Malacca through historical images in the Creative Commons. While the exhibition, which was presented in Kuala Lumpur at the Back Room Gallery from October 16 to November 14, 2021, displayed facsimiles of historical maps and prints alongside contemporary art work by Bam Hizal, the playing cards lean into the creativity of Southeast Asian historians, encouraging players to reference sources to construct narratives as part of the game.
In the words of their creators, the playing cards bring together “various images that spanned geographies as expansive as the Antilles or the Moluccas, the era of the Ming to the present day, peoples from humble boatmen in the rivers of Ethiopia to admirals and kings” to chart out Malacca as part of an expansive “web of global relations enmeshed in unexpected ways.”
The cards make apparent the possible histories of exchange and trade that connect Africa to Southeast Asia. Presented in this exhibition as an artifact of a previous exhibition about the speculative historical ties that connect maritime Malacca, Southeast Asia, and beyond, the playing cards export the speculative and collaborative act of imagining expanded regional and global histories to the Republic of Korea.
Cloud projects is a maker and publisher of knowledge projects. Based in Kuala Lumpur, but with an eye toward Southeast Asia, we work at the intersection of art, architecture, and history. Through rigorous research and inventive design, we excavate knowledge networks and forge worlds of possibility.
Cloud projects, Cards from All the Lands Within the Seas: The Card Game (Korean Edition), 2022. Courtesy of the artists.