Kim Westfall

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Shim: American Opens a Cafe at the DMZ 2024 (10)

A cafe is growing, tucked in to the mountainside air raid shelter of the DMZ borderlands. A light light flickers, illuminating the past, present, and future. I'll see you at the DMZ! Shim was a free, one-day pop-up cafe staged in Yangji-ri village’s air raid shelter at the Korean DMZ. Referencing Korean cafe culture’s fixation on third place, the DMZ’s evolution from security tourism, to ecological peace tourism, and its repurposing as art production site, Shim attempts to intervene and align the past and present. Yangji-ri was one of many minbuk propaganda villages established by the Park Chung Hee regime in the 1960s to showcase the farming bounty and prosperity of the south for a North Korean gaze. The village was formerly part of the Civilian Control Line (CCL) until 2013 when it was reterritorialized as a normal part of South Korea.
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Drinking a Monster in the parking lot of the clinic where I was born that is now a funeral home 2024

A woman returns to the site of her birth, which is now a funeral home. She drinks a white monster energy drink.
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Swimming in the Hantan River which sickened 3000 troops during the Korean War N/A

The swimmer wades in to the Hantan River at the DMZ Cheorwon in South Korea. The Hantan River flows from Pyonggang, North Korea, and joins the Han River in South Korea. It was also the birthplace of the Hantaa Virus; an airborne disease contracted from field mice droppings which caused severe illness in American troops during the Korean War.
Kim Westfall

Kim Westfall

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Drinking a Monster in the parking lot of the clinic where I was born that is now a funeral home 2024

A woman returns to the site of her birth, which is now a funeral home. She drinks a white monster energy drink.
Kim Westfall

Kim Westfall

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Drinking a Monster in the parking lot of the clinic where I was born that is now a funeral home 2024

A woman returns to the site of her birth, which is now a funeral home. She drinks a white monster energy drink.
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Swimming in the Hantan River which sickened 3000 troops during the Korean War N/A

The swimmer wades in to the Hantan River at the DMZ Cheorwon in South Korea. The Hantan River flows from Pyonggang, North Korea, and joins the Han River in South Korea. It was also the birthplace of the Hantaa Virus; an airborne disease contracted from field mice droppings which caused severe illness in American troops during the Korean War.
Kim Westfall

Kim Westfall

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Shim: American Opens a Cafe at the DMZ 2024 (10)

A cafe is growing, tucked in to the mountainside air raid shelter of the DMZ borderlands. A light light flickers, illuminating the past, present, and future. I'll see you at the DMZ! Shim was a free, one-day pop-up cafe staged in Yangji-ri village’s air raid shelter at the Korean DMZ. Referencing Korean cafe culture’s fixation on third place, the DMZ’s evolution from security tourism, to ecological peace tourism, and its repurposing as art production site, Shim attempts to intervene and align the past and present. Yangji-ri was one of many minbuk propaganda villages established by the Park Chung Hee regime in the 1960s to showcase the farming bounty and prosperity of the south for a North Korean gaze. The village was formerly part of the Civilian Control Line (CCL) until 2013 when it was reterritorialized as a normal part of South Korea.
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Swimming in the Hantan River which sickened 3000 troops during the Korean War N/A

The swimmer wades in to the Hantan River at the DMZ Cheorwon in South Korea. The Hantan River flows from Pyonggang, North Korea, and joins the Han River in South Korea. It was also the birthplace of the Hantaa Virus; an airborne disease contracted from field mice droppings which caused severe illness in American troops during the Korean War.
Kim Westfall

Kim Westfall

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Drinking a Monster in the parking lot of the clinic where I was born that is now a funeral home 2024

A woman returns to the site of her birth, which is now a funeral home. She drinks a white monster energy drink.
Kim Westfall

Kim Westfall

N/A

N/A

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Shim: American Opens a Cafe at the DMZ 2024 (10)

A cafe is growing, tucked in to the mountainside air raid shelter of the DMZ borderlands. A light light flickers, illuminating the past, present, and future. I'll see you at the DMZ! Shim was a free, one-day pop-up cafe staged in Yangji-ri village’s air raid shelter at the Korean DMZ. Referencing Korean cafe culture’s fixation on third place, the DMZ’s evolution from security tourism, to ecological peace tourism, and its repurposing as art production site, Shim attempts to intervene and align the past and present. Yangji-ri was one of many minbuk propaganda villages established by the Park Chung Hee regime in the 1960s to showcase the farming bounty and prosperity of the south for a North Korean gaze. The village was formerly part of the Civilian Control Line (CCL) until 2013 when it was reterritorialized as a normal part of South Korea.
Movie Picture

Swimming in the Hantan River which sickened 3000 troops during the Korean War N/A

The swimmer wades in to the Hantan River at the DMZ Cheorwon in South Korea. The Hantan River flows from Pyonggang, North Korea, and joins the Han River in South Korea. It was also the birthplace of the Hantaa Virus; an airborne disease contracted from field mice droppings which caused severe illness in American troops during the Korean War.