@article{ART003278918},
author={Gaeun Ji},
title={Lines and Correspondence: Listen to the City’s Community Archival Practices},
journal={Journal of History of Modern Art},
issn={1598-7728},
year={2025},
volume={0},
number={58},
pages={179-205},
doi={10.17057/kahoma.2025..58.008}
TY - JOUR
AU - Gaeun Ji
TI - Lines and Correspondence: Listen to the City’s Community Archival Practices
JO - Journal of History of Modern Art
PY - 2025
VL - 0
IS - 58
PB - 현대미술사학회
SP - 179
EP - 205
SN - 1598-7728
AB - This study reinterprets the artistic practice of the community archive that bridges the gap between memory and record through British anthropologist Tim Ingold’s concepts of lines, meshwork, and correspondence. Ingold understands the world not as a collection of objects but as a flow of relations, and conceives of existence as an entanglement of lines formed by the paths of walking and making. Such thought invites us to reconsider the archive not as a completed product but as a relational process, and provides a theoretical ground for rethinking how art engages with social memory. From this perspective, the study interprets the activities of the art collective, Listen to the City, as a counter-archive that restores the voices of places and people erased by the violence of urban development and demolition, and as a wayfaring practice that reconnects relationships and memories through walking, listening, conversing, and weaving. Projects such as Okbaraji Alley, Cheonggyecheon–Euljiro and Naeseongcheon are records of correspondence generated in urban and ecological sites that reveal the affective and relational layers that textual or institutional systems fail to capture. Through these practices, art shifts from network to meshwork, from interaction to correspondence, and from outcome to process, expanding into an act that sustains community. The concept of a “wayfaring community archive” thus explores the intersection of art, record, and anthropology as a generative field of relations, proposing a new framework for understanding memory and solidarity in contemporary society.
KW - Tim Ingold;Line;Correspondence;Community Archives;Archival art;Listen to the City
DO - 10.17057/kahoma.2025..58.008
ER -
Gaeun Ji. (2025). Lines and Correspondence: Listen to the City’s Community Archival Practices. Journal of History of Modern Art, 0(58), 179-205.
Gaeun Ji. 2025, "Lines and Correspondence: Listen to the City’s Community Archival Practices", Journal of History of Modern Art, vol.0, no.58 pp.179-205. Available from: doi:10.17057/kahoma.2025..58.008
Gaeun Ji "Lines and Correspondence: Listen to the City’s Community Archival Practices" Journal of History of Modern Art 0.58 pp.179-205 (2025) : 179.
Gaeun Ji. Lines and Correspondence: Listen to the City’s Community Archival Practices. 2025; 0(58), 179-205. Available from: doi:10.17057/kahoma.2025..58.008
Gaeun Ji. "Lines and Correspondence: Listen to the City’s Community Archival Practices" Journal of History of Modern Art 0, no.58 (2025) : 179-205.doi: 10.17057/kahoma.2025..58.008
Gaeun Ji. Lines and Correspondence: Listen to the City’s Community Archival Practices. Journal of History of Modern Art, 0(58), 179-205. doi: 10.17057/kahoma.2025..58.008
Gaeun Ji. Lines and Correspondence: Listen to the City’s Community Archival Practices. Journal of History of Modern Art. 2025; 0(58) 179-205. doi: 10.17057/kahoma.2025..58.008
Gaeun Ji. Lines and Correspondence: Listen to the City’s Community Archival Practices. 2025; 0(58), 179-205. Available from: doi:10.17057/kahoma.2025..58.008
Gaeun Ji. "Lines and Correspondence: Listen to the City’s Community Archival Practices" Journal of History of Modern Art 0, no.58 (2025) : 179-205.doi: 10.17057/kahoma.2025..58.008
