The video explores migration from two different perspectives. Migration provides a new environment for migrants but also creates a void of separation from family and friends back home. Using this tension as a starting point, we collected stories from migrants in Berlin and Jeju, as well as text messages and letters from family and friends back home. Together with writer Jeff Wood, we reorganized and reworked these materials into a text that captures the inextricable union of leaving and staying.
The video Waves, Everywhere capitalizes on the German media’s use of the word “wave” to intimidate the public with terms like “migrant tsunami” and “migrant wave,” creating a sense of threat. It suggests that the flow of migration is a natural part of human existence by comparing it to the movement and circulation of waves, which have always been everywhere.

영상은 서로 다른 두 가지 관점에서 이주를 조명한다. 이주는 이주자들에게는 새로운 환경을 제공함과 동시에 고국에 있는 가족과 친구에게서는 떠나야 하는 공허함을 남긴다. 이 긴장을 출발점으로 베를린과 제주에서 이주민들의 이야기와 고향에 남겨진 가족, 친구들의 문자메세지와 편지를 수집했고, 글작가 제프 우드(Jeff Wood)와 함께 이 자료들을 재구성하고 떠남과 머무름의 불가분한 결합을 포착하는 텍스트로 재작업하였다.
영상<파도,어디에나 있는>은 독일 언론매체에서 쓰였던 ‘이주민 쓰나미’, ‘이주 물결’와 같이 대중에게 위협감을 주려는 표현의 ‘파도’를 역이용한다. 언제 어디에나 있어 왔고 이동과 순환하는 파도의 움직임을 빗대어 이주의 흐름은 인간 본연의 자연적인 것임을 말한다.

The video explores migration from two different perspectives. Migration provides a new environment for migrants but also creates a void of separation from family and friends back home. Using this tension as a starting point, we collected stories from migrants in Berlin and Jeju, as well as text messages and letters from family and friends back home. Together with writer Jeff Wood, we reorganized and reworked these materials into a text that captures the inextricable union of leaving and staying.
The video Waves, Everywhere capitalizes on the German media’s use of the word “wave” to intimidate the public with terms like “migrant tsunami” and “migrant wave,” creating a sense of threat. It suggests that the flow of migration is a natural part of human existence by comparing it to the movement and circulation of waves, which have always been everywhere.