idempotentia
6-channel video with variable installation, sound, website, digital print on vinyl, T-shirt, resin, 32min. 8sec.
2025

idempotentia models the property of 'idempotency'โ€”where repeated operations yield unchanged resultsโ€”as the dogma of a religion. The prophet of the 'Idempotent Doctrine' in the biography compiled by eobchae physically mimics a distributed network that maintains data consistency, synchronizing everyone's breathing and heartbeat. Instead of venerating a central monotheistic deity, it seeks to technically implement a state where all earthly members โ€˜beat with one heart.โ€™

The altar stained with the blood of saints who attempted to transcend the membrane, and the repeatedly replayed biographies of saints, neither make one believe in the fictional system of civil religion nor turn one into a complete nonbelieverโ€”they are merely traces of an attempt to construct belief itself as some repeatable narrative. Then, can civil religion be seen as a streaming of piety and jest, ritual and technology? In a world where only the form of belief remains without divine beings, what should we believe? What form will the world take when only we ourselves remain as objects of belief?

โŸจ๋ฉฑ๋“ฑ์„คโŸฉ์€ ์—ฐ์‚ฐ์ด ๋ฐ˜๋ณต๋˜์–ด๋„ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๊ฐ€ ๋‹ฌ๋ผ์ง€์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ์„ฑ์งˆ์ธ '๋ฉฑ๋“ฑ์„ฑ(idempotent)'์„ ํ•œ ์ข…๊ต์˜ ๊ต๋ฆฌ๋กœ ๋ชจ๋ธ๋งํ•œ๋‹ค. ์—…์ฒดeobchae๊ฐ€ ํŽธ์ฐฌํ•œ ์ „๊ธฐ(biography) ์† '๋ฉฑ๋“ฑ์„ค'์˜ ์„ ์ง€์ž๋Š” ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ์ผ๊ด€์„ฑ์„ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ถ„์‚ฐ ๋„คํŠธ์›Œํฌ๋ฅผ ์‹ ์ฒด์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ชจ์‚ฌํ•ด ๋ชจ๋‘์˜ ํ˜ธํก๊ณผ ์‹ฌ๋ฐ• ๋”ฐ์œ„๋ฅผ ๋™๊ธฐํ™”ํ•œ๋‹ค. ์ค‘์•™์˜ ์œ ์ผ์‹ ์„ ์ˆญ์•™ํ•˜๋Š” ๋Œ€์‹ , ์ง€์ƒ์˜ ๊ตฌ์„ฑ์› ๋ชจ๋‘๊ฐ€ "ํ•˜๋‚˜์˜ ์‹ฌ์žฅ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฐ•๋™ํ•˜๋Š”" ์ƒํƒœ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ตฌํ˜„ํ•˜๋ ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค.

ํ”ผ๋ง‰์„ ๋„˜์œผ๋ ค๋˜ ์„ฑ์ธ์˜ ํ”ผ๋กœ ์น ๊ฐ‘ํ•œ ์ œ๋‹จ๊ณผ ๋ฐ˜๋ณต ์žฌ์ƒ๋˜๋Š” ์„ฑ์ธ ์ „๊ธฐ๋Š” ์‹œ๋ฏผ ์ข…๊ต์˜ ํ”ฝ์…˜์  ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์„ ๋ฏฟ๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“ค์ง€๋„, ๋งˆ๋ƒฅ ๋ถˆ์‹ ์ž๋กœ ๋งŒ๋“ค์ง€๋„ ์•Š์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๋‹ค๋งŒ ์‹ ๋… ์ž์ฒด๋ฅผ ์–ด๋–ค ๋ฐ˜๋ณต ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ์„œ์‚ฌ๋กœ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•˜๊ณ ์ž ํ•œ ํ”์ ์ด๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ ‡๋‹ค๋ฉด ์‹œ๋ฏผ ์ข…๊ต๋Š” ๊ฒฝ๊ฑด๊ณผ ๋†๋‹ด, ์˜๋ก€์™€ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์˜ ์ŠคํŠธ๋ฆฌ๋ฐ์ด๋ผ ๋ณผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ? ์‹ ์  ์กด์žฌ ์—†์ด ์‹ ๋…์˜ ํ˜•์‹๋งŒ ๋‚จ์€ ์„ธ๊ณ„์—์„œ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋ฌด์—‡์„ ๋ฏฟ์–ด์•ผ ํ• ๊นŒ? ๋ฏฟ์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋Œ€์ƒ์ด ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฐ–์— ๋‚จ์ง€ ์•Š์€ ์„ธ๊ณ„๋Š” ์–ด๋–ค ๋ชจ์–‘์ƒˆ๋ฅผ ๋ ๊ฒŒ ๋ ๊นŒ?

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