A laundry woman 1999
Traditional Korean used bed covers, used clothes, wooden pegs, wire rope
Dimensions variable
Collection: The artist

This is part of an e-mail interview with Hans-Ulrich Obrist for Soo-Ja Kim's 'Cities on the Move' book project which was published in 1998. Hans-Ulrich Obrist is an independent curator and art critic who works without border. He co-curated 'Cities on the Move' project with Hou Hanru. Fom this 'Cities on the Move' exhibition the artist developed her own on going global project in the same title since 1997.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist: Your 'Cities on the Move' project                               takes place on several layers:
                              as a real time event
                              as a video
                              as a sound installation
                              as an exhibition on airplanes
                              as a book
                              Marcel Broodthaers said: 'The                               Museum is one truth which is                               surrounded by many other truths                               which are worth being explored.

Soo-Ja Kim:           'Cities on the Move'
                              in our minds and spirit
                              sewing this whole globe
                              It is my oxygen
                              It is my being

Hans-Ulrich Obrist: Alighiero Boetti wrote it
                              all moves across waves and
                              waves are made out of high and                               low
                              intervals
                              pauses
                              and silences.

Soo-Ja Kim:           Across the waves of mountains                               and valleys
                              across the waves of our body and                               spirit
                              A breath.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist: Do you see the truck as a social                               sculpture?

Soo-Ja Kim:           Bottari truck is
                              a loaded self
                              a loaded others
                              a loaded meanings
                              a loaded history
                              a loaded in-between

Hans-Ulrich Obrist: Everything is in-between

Soo-Ja Kim:           Nothing is in-between

Hans-Ulrich Obrist: Time has become more important                                than space throughout the 90s in                                Art, could you tell me about the                                way your 'Cities on the                                Move' projects in progress are                                happening in time rather a process                                than a product or rather oscillating                                between the process and the                                object?
Soo-Ja Kim:            Time is mental space we can                                never grab as physical presence is                                space we can never escape from.                                We can always recall the time                                when we want to but can never                                locate our body to the moment we                                want to.
                               Bottari truck is a processing                                object throughout space and time                                locating and dislocating ourselves                                to the place
                               where we came from
                               and
                               where we are going to.