광주프린지페스티벌 Gwangju Fringe Festival
2023 Oct 21 (토) 16:00 2023 Oct 22 (일) 16:00
518 민주광장일대 518 Democracy Square
수원연극축제 공식초청작 Suwon Theatre Festival
2023 May 20 (토) 16:30 2023 May 21 (일) 16:30
경기상상캠퍼스 공간 1986 Gyeonggi Sangsang Campus
당신이 믿는 것은 무엇인가?
페이크 뉴스 프로젝트의 세번째 작업 <마피코 MAPHIKO>의 이야기는 말레이시아와 필리핀, 한국이 정치경제를 통합한 연대국가 ‘마피코’를 설립하는 가상의 시나리오로부터 시작한다. 아시아의 국가들 가운데 식민지배와 독재, 검열을 경험한 국가들이 연결과 협력을 통해 미래 국가를 건설하고, 이어 새로운 국가의 수장을 선출하기 위한 선거를 앞둔 후보자들의 토론회가 진행된다. 관중은 후보자들에게 질문을 던지고, 각 후보자들은 그 질문에 답하며 자신이 최적의 지도자라는 것을 설득해나간다. 후보자의 이야기가 논리를 얻고 구조적으로 누군가를 설득해가는 과정에서 가짜뉴스의 매커니즘을 탐구하고 초국가주의의 관점을 살핀다.
#참여형 #초국가주의 #선거 #투표 #게임연극 #포럼연극
What do you believe?
MAPHIKO is an acronym of Malaysia, Philippines, and Korea. These three countries have a common history of colonization, dictatorship, and media blackout; which led fake news to be a tool for the social/political controls. A debate is held among candidates who are preparing to elect the leader of a new country. The audience asks questions to the candidates, and each candidate persuades that they are the optimal leader by answering those questions. As the candidates' stories gain logic and structure, the mechanism of fake news is explored through the perspective of trans-nationalism.
#Participatory #Transnationality #Election #Vote #GameShow #ForumTheatre
페이크 뉴스는 한국, 말레이시아, 필리핀, 미국, 영국 대만의 독립 예술가가 주도하는 연구 기반의 창작 프로젝트이다. 이야기의 기저에 깔린 진실이 무엇인지 묻고, 언론과 미디어를 작동하게 하는 매커니즘을 탐구하며, 사회의 보이지 않는 손으로서의 가짜 뉴스들을 다룬다. 가짜 뉴스가 만들어지는 과정을 탐색하고, 사람들이 주어진 정보를 재생산하고 진실 여부를 판단하는 과정에서 어떠한 현상들이 일어나는지 극의 방식으로 전개하며 가짜 뉴스의 메커니즘을 재해석한다.
Fake News Research is an artist-led project navigating the truth underneath the stories, the mechanisms behind the media, broadcasting, and the invisible hands on our society. From the common interests in the role of arts in our society, artists from different countries have been working together on this project since 2020, and dealing with multiple aspects of fake news with their theatrical voices.
A presidential election for newly united country, MAPHIKO! MAPHIKO, an unexpected yet beautiful enough heterotopia in your imagination.
Candidates with their own party and premises step forward and stand in front of the people after finishing their speeches. Their stories, full of irony but sincere at the same time, may persuade people more passionately than the truth itself. The audience throws sharp questions. It is representing the role of the public square - a public space for debating, discussing and discovering - as a heterotopia.
Stories that someone has always wanted to tell once boldly take the stage, and the audience faces not only the stage but also each other, seeing how they are reacting to the narratives. And then, the show goes for voting. The results of the vote encompass aspects that closely resemble reality and also things that would be impossible anywhere else at the same time. Under the safe promise that everything is fake, everyone suddenly reveals truth of our world.
In Suwon, even though one of the Filipino artists Bunny was not able to join the team physically, she vividly took the stage with an helper holding her face and representing her body. (This helper had been holding an iPad screen with Bunny’s face and voices during the whole show.) The voice of her who exists but does not really exist was perhaps the most realistic.
It is not researching politics, but rather performing politics. It is a forum theater as well as a reality show made possible through the participation from the public space. We all immersed ourselves in our respective roles without knowing the ending. Following intense conversations that kept us on edge, we elected the president of MAPHIKO. The diverse stories and arguments of various existences mingled under the sunny sky, becoming a rainbow that we could not have learned from books.
#citizenship #democracy #fakenews #election #campaign #discussion #debate #vote #trans-nationality #interdependency #new_country #forum_theatre #game_show #audience_participatory