PEACE PALACE

PEACE PALACE is an experiment is an experimental sound-walk devised by artist Lina Chang. The project investigates the life of Korean activists Yi-Jun, who was found dead along with two other Korean political emissaries shortly after they were denied entry to the Second Hague Peace Conference in 1907.

Searching for alternative explanations for how and why these political figures died - namely the possibility that they were assassinated - Chang visited key locations in The Hague and recorded interviews with local residents asking what they know about his story.

Comparing these interviews with others collected from Korean nationals abroad, the sound-walk asks its participants to consider the historical blindness that arises from international conflict and slippages that occur when oral history disappears.