Wataru Koyama, (2023)

싱글 채널 비디오, 33분 06초

정신질환 당사자이면서 동시에 돌봄 노동자인 한 여성과의 협업 과정을 기록한 작업이다. 작가는 그녀가 시도해보고 싶은 것들을 함께 실현하며, 개인이 처한 사회적·제도적 조건을 탐색한다. 작품에서 ‘미니어처 정원’은 사회가 개인에게 부여한 제한된 삶의 공간을 비유하며, 이를 완전히 해체하기보다는 그 안에서 다른 가능성을 모색한다. 제목은 정신의료 프로그램에서 차용되었으나 ‘폭력’ 대신 ‘억압’이라는 개념으로 치환된다. 이는 보호와 통제 사이의 긴장을 드러내며, 존엄과 안전이 어떻게 제도 속에서 조율되는지를 질문한다.

Single-channel video / Color / Sound, 33 min 06 sec

CRPPP – Comprehensive Repression Prevention and Protection Programme (2023) documents a collaborative process between the artist and a woman who is both a person living with mental illness and a psychiatric care worker. Centered on conversations about the things she wishes to try, the work follows how these ideas are discussed and enacted. Within this exchange, she reflects critically on the role of the artist, describing artistic practice as operating within a “miniature garden” of society, while expressing a desire to break beyond its constraints. In response, the work does not seek to dismantle this structure entirely, but instead explores ways of inhabiting and navigating it together—observing, negotiating, and playing within its limits.

The title reframes the psychiatric program Comprehensive Violence Prevention and Protection Programme (CVPPP), which was developed to address violence and aggression in clinical settings while safeguarding the dignity and safety of both patients and healthcare workers. In this work, “violence” is replaced with “repression,” shifting the focus toward forms of psychological constraint that shape everyday experience. Through this gesture, the work considers how structures of care, control, and expression intersect, proposing a space in which repression is not simply eliminated but examined and reconfigured through collaboration.

Wataru Koyama, (2023)

싱글 채널 비디오, 10 분 26 초

AI와의 대화를 통해 ‘살인’이라는 금기적 상상을 전개하는 실험적 구조의 영상이다. 작가 자신의 발화는 기계 음성으로 재생되고, AI의 응답은 인간의 목소리로 전달되며 관계가 역전된다. 이 구조는 윤리와 규범을 대표하는 AI와 충동적 상상을 펼치는 인간의 역할을 뒤틀린 방식으로 제시한다. 영상 중간중간 등장하는 주변 인물들은 이 상상에 끌려들어가며, 개인적 관계망까지 확장된다. 결과적으로 AI의 윤리적 언어는 억제 장치이자 동시에 상상을 증폭시키는 매개로 작동한다.

Single-channel video / Color / Sound, 10 min 26 sec

Imagination of Killing stages a dialogue between the artist and an AI system governed by strict norms and ethical protocols. Within this exchange, the artist develops an “imagination of killing,” positioning the AI as a trusted yet regulating counterpart. The work adopts an inverted structure: the artist’s voice is rendered through a synthetic, machine-generated tone, while the AI’s responses are delivered in a human voice. This reversal produces a dissonant dynamic in which a mechanical “self” articulates transgressive thoughts, and an “AI-as-human” attempts to contain them through social and ethical reasoning.

Interwoven with this dialogue are the intermittent appearances of individuals connected to the artist: a person confessing a minor wrongdoing, a devout believer, someone who has contemplated killing, and a close companion. These figures are drawn into the expanding field of imagined violence, not through their own actions but through the artist’s projection. As the AI continues to respond with normative restraint, its language paradoxically intensifies the imaginative process, allowing it to grow increasingly self-contained and unbounded.

In this work, I engage in a dialogue that develops an imagination of “killing” with an AI that adheres strictly to norms and ethics, and which I regard as a trusted counterpart.