Crow’s Junk Dealer

「Until Today」

When conceptualizing the project, we initially considered various formats such as webzines, exhibitions, performances, podcasts, and more. The idea was to challenge ourselves by exploring the interests of team members, their familiarity with certain formats, or genres they wanted to experiment with through this project. These scattered ideas gradually converged over a six-month project period, resulting in two final formats: an exhibition and a performance. While some ideas merged through a consensus, there were cases where they were abandoned midway due to issues that arose during execution. The common experiences of team members were mainly documented in writing or used as material for the performance, while individual elements that team members wanted to focus on separately were concluded as individual works.

The project concluded with the <OK GO> exhibition, but internally, Crow Junk's Dealer has not found a definitive endpoint. It's probably okay to say that we didn't try to find it. This was done to prevent the group's activities or identity from leaping to a specific conclusion, and to supplement this, a strategy of continuously documenting the process moments of group activities was necessary. For example, there were acts of continually overlaying recorded videos and collected images. In the performance, we read texts, named collected objects, or actually incorporated them into the performance.

We needed a lot of time and effort to write the exhibition preface. The consensus among team members was to create an exhibition without excessive explanations. Nevertheless, we couldn't avoid declaring some things. However, what can we confidently declare about, or what possibilities can we affirm? Also, did our declarations have sufficient competence to affirm anything in advance?

Objects that were no longer needed were left behind. They all have their own stories while wandering the streets or hiding in spaces, but we cannot know their details. We can only speculate. The time left for us will likely be a time of reconciliation. There were stories that were written but not spoken, and things that sparkled but were not visible in the exhibition. Previously, we declared that collection is "the narrative of discovery and the discovery of narrative," and that "if the search is not intense, you cannot see it, and if the logic is imcomplete, you cannot speak." However, we would have to acknowledge the impossibility of this in this closing.