
Performance, Talk
Bad New Days Live Screening Performances & Artist Talk
Mar 3/14/27/30, 2021
Tactics exhibition-related program
Live Screening Performances
Dates
16:00 Mar 3, 2021
15:00 Mar 14, 2021
13:30 Mar 27, 2021
11:00 Mar 30, 2021
Venue
Gallery 2, Nam June Paik Art Center
Artist Talk
Dates
15:00 Mar 27, 2021
Venue
Gallery 2 & Seminar Room, Nam June Paik Art Center
Closed
Bad New Days presents live screening performances in which one of their members drives a truck along the same paths that the freight workers’ union traveled to express their stances on major days of protest. The real-time images from the truck driven by the artist, combined with audio sources from the radio at that time, are broadcast live on the screen of the exhibition.
Date | March 3, 2021 |
Time/Route | Departure at 16:00, from Pyungtaek Harbor to Hyundai Steel in Dangjin Steel Industrial Complex (40 mins) |
Past Protest | March 3, 2016 |
Performance | Rally to Stop Hyundai Steel’s Cut Down of Freight Charges Truck Driver L from Osan waged a propaganda war to promote the rally. Its route was via the area of Pyungtaek Harbor to Dangjin Steel Industrial Complex, Chungnam. |
Date | March 14, 2021 |
Time/Route | Departure at 15:00, from Jeonju to Samsung Electronics, Gwangju (65 mins) |
Past Protest | March 14, 2006 |
Performance | Rally to Denounce Samsung’s Capitalist Policies and to Withdraw the Mass Dismissal of Freight Workers Truck Driver K from Jeonju waged a propaganda war to promote the rally to ask Samsung Electronics to reinstate laid-off workers. He departed Jeonju and traveled the area of Hanam-dong to Gwangsan0gu, Gwangju. |
Date | March 27, 2021 |
Time/Route | Departure at 13:30, from the First Pier to the New Port, Busan (60 mins) Artist Talk at 15pm |
Past Protest | March 27, 2010 |
Performance | Busan Area Occasion as part of Nationwide Propaganda War Truck Driver S from Busan took part in a propaganda war whose principal agenda was to the increase of freight charges. Its route on March 27, 2010 was from the First Pier through the North Port, Eastern Gamman, Sinseondae Pier, to the New Port. |
Date | March 30, 2021 |
Time/Route | Departure at 11:00, from Gwangyang to the area of Yeosu Chemical Industrial Complex (40 mins) |
Past Protest | March 30, 2020 |
Performance | Gwangyang Port Protest for Safety Rate System Truck Driver J from Jeonnam took part in a propaganda war whose principal agenda was about the safety rate system and the increase of freight charges. Its route on March 30, 2020 was from the Gwangyang Port to Yeosu Chemical Industrial Complex arriving at the area of Gwangyang Bay. |
Contacts
sykim@njpartcenter.kr

Bad New Days, Streaming/Cutting
Streaming/Cutting is a recording of a real-time live performance filmed by the five-member artist group ‘Bad New Days’ while the group was driving a cargo truck along the route that the cargo workers union went through for a strike on its major days of struggle. The artists conducted interviews and research about the process of its 19 years struggle since its organization. They also recorded a journey of its struggles and protests in different regions on the 4th, 8th, 25th, and 30th of March. The screens and monitors of the exhibition hall play a new journey respectively by the artists’ live performance during the exhibition period.
The artists borrow the format of ‘trucker vlog,’ a lorry driver’s real-time driving live. Streaming/Cutting reorganizes the ‘strategy’ and ‘system’ of cities built by the system into the workers’ routes, retracing the workers’ historical journey in the present. They create a journey of unfamiliar landscapes by overlapping two different time zones, in which they release voice records of the past struggles on the current road scenery.