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Bust Down the Doors!
Bust Down the Doors! presents the reader with a story of nighttime violence, where the victim remembers a peaceful happening in the past. The narrative is presented in black and white text and with an audio consisting of rhythmic sounds.
Meri Alexandra Raita - 05.09.2011 - 14:34
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Cunnilingus in North Korea
"Cunnilingus in North Korea" is a work that challenges both the political system of North Korea and the sexualisation of Western Society.
This piece places a purported text by Kim Jong-Il in conversation with Nina Simone’s “See-Line Woman” in perfectly sexy YHCHI fashion. Whether the text is real or not is beside the question (I would like to believe it is) because the “Dear Leader” of North Korea provides a speaker and frame of reference that shapes how we understand the text particularly when juxtaposed with the music and lyrics sung by Simone. The text displayed on the screen is mostly by Kim Jong-Il, interspersed with some “Oh”s by Simone, creating a dialectic where male and female, communism and capitalism, North and South Korea, East and West, meet. Consider how the contrast between the seductive, commodified sexual politics sung by Simone’s and the political propaganda of sexual liberation offered by Kim Jong-Il’s text come together to help us rethink the granting or denial of sexual favors as a type of currency.
(Source: Leonardo Flores, I ♥ E-Poetry)
Meri Alexandra Raita - 08.09.2011 - 21:40
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0perati0n Nuk0rea
The tale of a fictional war between North Korea and South Korea/the USA. As opposed to many other works produced by Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries, the text in this piece moves upwards from the bottom of the frame, giving the reader an experience closer to that of reading a book.
The work was converted from Adobe Flash format to video around 2021.
Meri Alexandra Raita - 08.09.2011 - 21:45
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L0tus Bl0ss0m
The work L0tus Bl0ss0m is a tale of two people meeting in a subway. One of them, a cleaning lady, seem to suggest similar ideas as the philosopher Jacques Derrida, while the other helps her with the garbage in exchange for hearing her thoughts.
The work was published on Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries' web page in 2002 according to the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, and was converted to video format around or after 2018.
Meri Alexandra Raita - 30.09.2011 - 14:45
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Metablast
In Metablast, Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries uses their well-established text-display methods to "perform" the entire text of the a discussion of an earlier work, 0perati0n Nuk0rea (2003), from the community blog Metafilter. A link to 0perati0n Nuk0rea had been posted to the front page of Metafilter on April 18, 2003, and the many comments that followed make up the text of Metablast.
In 2004, Metablast itself would also be discussed on Metafilter.
The work was published on Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries' webpage in 2004 according to Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, and converted to video form somewhere between 2018-2021.
Meri Alexandra Raita - 02.10.2011 - 12:03
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Riviera
Set in the usual monochrome style and with a jazzy soundtrack synonymous with Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries' work, Riviera introduces a new element: division of the screen into four horizontal spaces. In each of these spaces, text flows past—horizontally in the English version of the work, vertically in the Chinese—at different rates, each providing different views of the Hae-Oondae Sea.
The work was published on Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries' web page in 2002, according to the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, and converted to video form around 2018.
Meri Alexandra Raita - 02.10.2011 - 13:43
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All Fall Down
Set in the usual monochrome style of Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries, the work All Fall Down focus on the fact that everybody will fall down eventually, saints, doctors and bums alike. The work has two seperate narrations and it is near impossible to follow both at the same time as the pace in this work is fast. The work is set to a jazzy soundstrack featuring a long drum solo set to the famous groove from Dave Brubeck's Take Five.
The work was published on Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries' web page in 2002 according to the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine.
Meri Alexandra Raita - 02.10.2011 - 13:50
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Orient
This poem from circa 2002 contains the same linguistic text— that is, the same sequence of words— as the 2003 “Nippon” but it is a very different work.
“Orient” is set to the tune of “B. Quick” by Sonny Rollins, which makes it last slightly over 9:13. This song is a fast-paced bebop that sets an urgent, desperate, even frantic tone - making your heart race and eyes tear as you try to keep up with an aggressive reading pace. Stick with it and you’ll end up exhausted and bewildered as your brain gets taken through what reads like a stream-of-consciousness narrative about cheerful men who go to a bar and interact with desperately bored women whose job it is to make them feel at ease.
Meri Alexandra Raita - 02.10.2011 - 13:58
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The Last Day of Betty Nkomo
This 2005 piece distinguishes itself from most of YHCHI's earlier work in two ways: it is brief (about 2 minutes long) and it uses an Okinawan folk song (perhaps a version of "Asadoya Yunta") rather than jazz. This compelling story is perfectly synchronized to the music, powerfully narrating the thought process of a woman who seems to by dying on the floor, trying to get up, but unable to. The chords played on the sanshin set a regular tempo for the song and poem, but its heartbeat-like rhythm slows down into an abrupt silence at the end of the song, marking Betty Nkomos' death.
For a more detailed reading of this poem, read pgs. 157-161 of Giovanna Di Rosario's dissertation, "Electronic Poetry: Understanding Poetry in the Digital Environment."
(Source: Leonardo Flores, I ♥ E-Poetry)
Meri Alexandra Raita - 05.10.2011 - 13:51
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Traveling to Utopia
The work was published on Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries' web page in 2006 according to the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine.
Meri Alexandra Raita - 05.10.2011 - 14:01
