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Listen To Me 02:10
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Not Red 02:50
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City 02:40

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DBGC collaboration project <Hey, Listen to Me> with three female artists based in Daegu.

"We've lived completely different lives, but we're connected somewhere."

<Hey, Listen to Me> is a collaboration project with punk band Drinking Boys and Girls Choir and three artists - Kim Seoul, Minjung Kim, and Mi-so, which expresses their personal and common feelings as female creators in Daegu through music and art exhibitions.
Drinking Boys and Girls Choir wrote each song about the story of the three artists.
Jang Young-eun, guitarist and vocalist of the band igloo, participated in the musical arrangement with an attempt to make something different to previously released music by Drinking Boys and Girls Choir.

<City>
About the Artist - Kim Seoul
Kim Seoul was inspired by the universality of large cities, rather than the differences between large cities, through her experience living in Seoul and Tokyo. The sorrow, absurdity, and comfort of modern people are portrayed through painting, engraving, and installation works in expressions that do not lose their laughter.

About the Exhibition - Hollow Box
In this exhibition the space is designed to look like her old living room. The memories of living in a gap between clothes and objects in a small room are reproduced in this work. Through installations made with eco-friendly materials such as Tyvek, and silkscreen engraving techniques, the artist created a space filled with small but precious things which allowed for small citizens in large cities and exhibition visitors to search for other entries.

About the Music - City
City is a song that MJ started to write while talking with Kim Seoul about the loneliness and fear that metropolitan cities can give to individuals living in them, especially those cities that feel bigger for women living alone. Inspired by the conversation, the image of the song itself is about comforting yourself, after having experienced those feelings, and comforting fellow citizens who are still in such a situation. I hope everyone will have a safe and cozy place to live.

About the Video
The video was filmed inside the "Hollow Box" art exhibit, which has the motif of the artist's living room. Sometimes we feel lonely, but I tried to express the sense of stability that I could have existed only as a person in the room.

<Not Red>
About the Artist - Mi-so
Mi-so is based in Daegu and continues working there through various cultural and artistic activities. Mi-so collects and interprets stories about the lives and loss of others in the form of interviews, surveys, etc., captures them on the screen as part of the body, and records individual lives monumentally.

About the Exhibition - What Others Have Lost
The loss of others seen in this exhibition is a series of works under the theme of "Sorrow," which has continued since 2016. It was produced by interviewing MJ, Meena, and Han Jung-hoon, members of the Drinking Boys and Girls Choir, about their unresolved losses and memorable events in their lives.
Unlike previous works that focused on each person's story, images were overlaid and installed to show the relationship between the three people who worked in the same city and formed each other's world together.

About the Music - Not Red
Among the long work notes recorded by Mi-so, Meena made a song based on the sentence "Red is not red", a phrase that Mi-so's grandmother said a long time ago.
I wanted to tell the story that anyone can be a “Red", and maybe I can be a “Red" to someone else, just as the Red mentioned in the song is not red.

About the Video
The video was filmed at Sky Lab in Daemyung-dong, operated by the band Massalina. In this project, I tried to recreate the feeling of Mi-so's art exhibition "What Others Have Lost" with the members of Drinking Boys and Girls Choir overlapping in the music video.

<Hey, Listen to Me>
About the Artist - Min Jung Kim
Min Jung Kim is an illustrator and cartoonist. Min Jung founded Blackfast Club Press, a publishing company specializing in picture books and comic books, such as an anthology comic book titled "Import Corner," which tells the stories of 22 Korean female artists living abroad, and an anthology comic book planned and published by 11 female artists titled "See-real #1. Chi Chi," which tells honest stories about women's bodies. In addition, she participated as an illustrator in a number of publishing projects such as "It's Ugly But It's Science" and "To Young People Who Want to Become a Reporter."

Introduction - Hey, Listen to Me
The artist's own experiences and friends experiences were produced and displayed in three comic books containing the story of the characters A, B, and C.

A began her first period. Her parents threw a party with joy to celebrate A's growth. The joy was cut short as A's aunt and cousin visited without notice. A cannot understand why she should hide the reason for the party from her male cousin.

B likes short haircuts. Since childhood, B's short hair has been the subject of misunderstanding and prejudice. B was asked by a child, "Are you a man or a woman?". This is hidden in the child's question of gender after calling B an older sister. "Why do you have short hair when you're a girl?”

Hairy C diligently takes care of her body hair by regularly shaving. This is because C has heard that she "looks like a gorilla" on the subway. Hairy people are treated like animals, so C diligently plucked and cut. C, who became an adult and had sex with a man, feels bad about the hair of the other person who grew up indifferently. Why should I be the only one? I won't do it either!

About the Music - Hey, Listen to Me
Hey, Listen to Me is a song that Meena wrote after she was impressed to hear about the anti-exhibition activities of Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki during Min Jung Kim's study in Germany. It is also a song that contains the feeling of solidarity that we are together for countless "Kaori," who changed the world with courage.

About the Video
The video was filmed in the Daemyung-dong area, including the Daemyung-dong campus of Keimyung University, Daemyung Culture Alley, and the Rooftop of Club Heavy. We and many friends expressed our solidarity with a lively and joyful march.

credits

released March 3, 2023

Credits:
Music
City - Myeongjin Kim
Not Red - Meena Bae
Hey, Listen to Me - Myeongjin Kim

Lyrics
City - Myeongjin Kim
Not Red - Meena Bae
Hey, Listen to Me - Meena Bae

Arrangement
Myeongjin Kim, Meena Bae, Jang Young-eun (of band igloo)

Recorded by DBGC at Apple Music Academy
Mixed and Mastered by Mingyu Kim of Electricmuse
Film and Design by 0min film

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