# otherisland

Abstract

# otherisland emerges from the enduring gap between islanding and de-islanding, those movements that inscribe lines both inside and outside of cultural identity. This work has undergone transformation from an immersive experience to a corner installation with a customized printed roller blind and thermal blanket. What I term "spatial distillation" reaches its apex in this iteration, where the Korean consonant # serves as both a linguistic vessel and a spatial portal, creating a hidden threshold between the familiar corner and the alien landscape beyond. The rectangular form of # functions as what Jacques Derrida calls a "parergon," a frame that is neither inside nor outside the work but constitutes the very condition of its appearing. Through this corner installation, the work embodies SUSTAINAISSANCE, demonstrating how my practice transforms and rebirths from a large immersive installation into a corner iteration. The Korean consonant # amplifies the core concept of this work, functioning as epoché for viewers, creating a phenomenological moment to think beyond immediate reality, suspending assumptions about space and identity to reveal new pathways for diasporic otherness. The roller blind format re-presents staged photography, transforming the act of revealing into a phenomenological gesture, while the thermal blanket grounds viewers in the immediate present, the physical space and time where participants stand. This metamorphosis of the installation suggests that spatial distillation can amplify experiential intensity, creating "portal aesthetics": the sustainable artistic practice that reinvisions a minimal architectural space into potential speculative futures.