Vuth Lyno
25, 2018
3채널 비디오와 사운드
32분 7초
Three-channel video with sound
32 min 7 sec
부스는 “유엔 캄보디아 과도 통치기구를 위해 파견되었던 평화유지군의 생물학적 자녀들이 현재 캄보디아에 살고 있다는 사실을 알게 되고 나서 이 프로젝트를 시작했다. 평화유지군이 고국으로 귀환하면서 많은 아이들이 아버지 없이 남겨졌다. 내가 만난 사람 중 몇 명은 아프리카계였다.”고 말한다. 그로부터 25년이 지난 후, 이들은 서로 만나 유엔 캄보디아 과도통치기구가 그들의 삶에 어떤 영향을 미쳤는지 생각해보고 각자의 경험을 공유했다. 작품은 평화유지라는 유토피아적 프로젝트의 결과로 혼혈아 세대를 향한 일상적인 폭력을 견디고 살아야 했던 개인들의 목소리를 들려줌으로써 국제사회의 남남협력에 대한 열망의 다른 측면들을 풀어낸다.
25 is a three-channel video that looks at the legacy of the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC; 1992 – 1993), a UN peacemaking project. At the time, UNTAC was the UN’s largest peacekeeping mission and was also deemed its most successful. For 25, Vuth talked to three individuals whose fathers were part of the UN mission to Cambodia. Upon the completion of the UNTAC mission, UN peacekeepers went back to their respective countries, many leaving behind the children they had had with local women.
In Vuth’s account, “The project started when I learned about the biological children of UNTAC peacekeepers who now live here in Cambodia. Many of these children do not have fathers as their fathers went back to their respective home countries. Several I met are of African descent.” Twenty-five years later, three of these children met and shared their experiences, contemplating on how UNTAC has affected their lives. The work unravels aspects of the aspirations of an international South-South by introducing the voices of individuals who had to live through the mundane violence inflicted upon a generation of interracial children left behind as the result of a supposedly utopian project of peacekeeping.
Vuth Lyno (b. 1982, Phnom Penh) is an artist, curator, and co-founding artistic director of Sa Sa Art Projects, an artist-run space in Phnom Penh initiated by Stiev Selapak collective. His artistic and curatorial practices are participatory in nature, exploring communal learning, experimentation, and sharing of multiple voices through exchanges. Vuth holds a Master of Art History from the State University of New York, Binghamton, New York, supported by a Fulbright Fellowship (2013-2015), and a Master of International Development from RMIT University, Melbourne, supported by the Australian Endeavour Award (2008-2009). As an artist, Vuth works with various media including sculpture, photography, sound, light, and video, usually resulting in an installation. He is particularly interested in the agency of human stories, materiality, and how the audience engages with them. His interest intersects micro histories, notions of community, placemaking, and production of social situations. He often involves project participants in the production of meaning of the artwork. Vuth has presented his artworks widely in Cambodia, regionally and internationally including at major exhibitions and festivals such as Asia Pacific Triennial, Biennale of Sydney, Singapore International Festival of Arts, and the Gwangju Biennale. His artworks have been presented in institutions such as Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei; Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane; Metropolitan Museum of Manila; the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; the National Gallery of Indonesia, Jakarta; Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw; Guangdong Times Museum, Guangzhou; Osage Gallery, Hong Kong; and Chiang Mai City Arts & Cultural Centre.
Vuth Lyno, Installation view of 25, 2018, ADM Gallery, Singapore, 2021. Courtesy of the artist and ADM Gallery.