Literature/Visual Art
Ho Bin Kim
hk1983nyu.edu
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<Ep.11 Reality Sandwich: No to Discrimination>
Koganecho Bazaar + Kamiooka Bazaar 2025
Date: 2025.9.11 - 2025.10.13
Location: Koganecho Area Management Center, Hachibankan G (Yokohama, Japan)
Title: Ep.11 Reality Sandwich: No to Discrimination
Production Year: 2025
Runtime: 24:52
Director: Ho Bin Kim
Starring: FUNI
Featuring: Hwang Deok-ja, Kim Hwa-ja, Seok Il-bun, Lee Hae-ja, Park Chun-su, Ota Yoko, Park Geun-hye
Photographs: Tomomichi Nakamura
Music: g.h.o.s.t~郭正勲→FUNI→高吉正勲→? (beat by ghostinmpc, rap by FUNI), ghost blues (produce by SCRAPLOVE, rap by FUNI), hey hood (prod by octopod, rap by FUNI), Resurrection 101 (produce by SCRAPLOVE, rap by FUNI)
Translation: Rin Ehara
Synopsis:
Reality Sandwich is a site-responsive video series exploring how meaning emerges through unscripted, collaborative encounters. In each episode, I spend a day with a local artist, beginning with a single open question—“What does a Reality Sandwich mean to you?”—and allowing the work to unfold through shared time, improvisation, and place-based rituals. Filmed in cities like New York, Shanghai, Bacolod, Seoul, Rotterdam, and Yogyakarta the series blends absurdism, intimacy, and poetic resistance to linear narratives. The resulting videos, drawings, scents, and soundworks form a living archive—an ongoing exploration of relational art-making across borders and bodies.
For the episode 11, I capture a hip-hop lecture performance by a 3rd generation Zainichi-Korean Rapper, Funi, done at Woori-Madang, a community of Zainichi-Korean grandmothers come to sing, learn, and hang out with one another. Funi raps about his childhood, facing racism and discrimination in Japan, yet he chose to use music as a guide to release his frustration and uses it as a medium to bring awareness not only about the systematic issues in Japan, but also around the world.
Production Year: 2025
Runtime: 24:52
Director: Ho Bin Kim
Starring: FUNI
Featuring: Hwang Deok-ja, Kim Hwa-ja, Seok Il-bun, Lee Hae-ja, Park Chun-su, Ota Yoko, Park Geun-hye
Photographs: Tomomichi Nakamura
Music: g.h.o.s.t~郭正勲→FUNI→高吉正勲→? (beat by ghostinmpc, rap by FUNI), ghost blues (produce by SCRAPLOVE, rap by FUNI), hey hood (prod by octopod, rap by FUNI), Resurrection 101 (produce by SCRAPLOVE, rap by FUNI)
Translation: Rin Ehara
Synopsis:
Reality Sandwich is a site-responsive video series exploring how meaning emerges through unscripted, collaborative encounters. In each episode, I spend a day with a local artist, beginning with a single open question—“What does a Reality Sandwich mean to you?”—and allowing the work to unfold through shared time, improvisation, and place-based rituals. Filmed in cities like New York, Shanghai, Bacolod, Seoul, Rotterdam, and Yogyakarta the series blends absurdism, intimacy, and poetic resistance to linear narratives. The resulting videos, drawings, scents, and soundworks form a living archive—an ongoing exploration of relational art-making across borders and bodies.
For the episode 11, I capture a hip-hop lecture performance by a 3rd generation Zainichi-Korean Rapper, Funi, done at Woori-Madang, a community of Zainichi-Korean grandmothers come to sing, learn, and hang out with one another. Funi raps about his childhood, facing racism and discrimination in Japan, yet he chose to use music as a guide to release his frustration and uses it as a medium to bring awareness not only about the systematic issues in Japan, but also around the world.