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2015 » Republic of Korea » Student Section

Curator:	Hak Choi
Authors of Theme:	Haein Yoon, Gaeeun Song
Designer / Architect of exhibition:	Kue-rin Choi

Weather Box

What would it be like if we could put the weather into boxes or if we could deliver it to other people? We have put our own thoughts about the weather into boxes and will present them to the audience at the student booth in Prague.

The participants thought about the meaning of the weather and came together to create a weather box. Each school has its own interpretation of weather, and has visually presented these ideas as if they had been “packed up”. The exhibition’s aim is to offer audiences the weather as a small boxed present to be enjoyed in various fun ways.

Chung-Ang University: Untitled Boxes

We see, feel, hear and live with different weather and temperatures every day. Weather effects our everyday lives, but we tend to take it for granted or not think so deeply about it. Weather leaves its marks or traces and makes its own history as well. We want to give the audience a chance to feel and experience weather while leaving their own traces in the booth just like the weather.

Just as the weather is unpredictable and irregular, our project hopes to express these characteristics through the audience’s participation in the booth. Boxes will be placed outside the booth that the audience can open

up to find a surprise inside. There will be instructions as to what we would like the audience to do. The audience can also leave its traces in the booth according to the instructions. Participants can share their thoughts about the weather, meaning that communication is key to our exhibit.

Korea National University of Arts: Weather Suitcase

We’ve spent a lot of time thinking about how to unravel the weather within a small space. We also thought about a variety of approaches to composing and depicting the weather in our booth. We debated about the weather in our daily lives ad in theater, its unpredictability, and timelessness. We decided to deliver our thoughts on the weather to Prague, and so we call our theme “Delivery”. Working with the concept of delivery, we express our various thoughts in suitcases that we open up in Prague. Through our presentation and the audience’s feedback, we hope to enjoy a new interpretation of weather. We have decided to use suitcases as objects, and thought about various ways of presenting them outside the booth as well. We can communicate with the audience using a group performance, or we can individually show each suitcase to the audience.

SangMyung University: Broken Weather

Weather is a part of our daily lives. It can effect how we feel and live every day. There are similarities between people and weather in that weather seems to have a personality just like human beings. Just like us, it is unpredictable.

Our team has analysed the weather’s irregularity and unsteadiness with a view towards chaos theory. Chaos theory is about finding discipline and regularity within nature’s irregularity and chaos – characteristics that we will express visually and auditorially using Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons”. One of the main characteristics of “The Four Seasons” is its prominent musical depiction of the changing seasons. Our aim, however, is to show the unpredictable and irregular side of weather instead of the typical image of each season. We plan to talk about a new side of Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons” and to shake up the rhythm. And so we have given our seasons different names: Spring, Object of Jealousy; Rotten Summer; Momentary Autumn; Frozen Winter. Through these four concepts, we will present the audience a new story of the four seasons. Frozen Winter and Rotten Summer for instance will be tragic stories, expressed through stage costumes.

Yongin University: Cloud

Using the direct factors that shape the weather (clouds, rain, snow and sun), we plan to create our project in a fun and new way.

Clouds come with rain and snow, and the wind passes by from time to time. At some point in our lives, many of us have imagined what it would be like to travel the world on clouds or to meet trolls and fairies. We tried to create a world of clouds using our childhood imagination. Our design starts from this childhood mind.

Each cube figure will look like a dot. Since it is made up of small dots, lines and figures, our design will look three-dimensional. Each cube will look like a dot, and our cloud will be made up of these dots. These cubes contain stories from our childhood. We want the audience to look back to that innocent moment and to enjoy our cloud.