Korean DMZ theater / North Korean fake village

As told 3

“The spectacle people observe when they take seats and look through the gigantic screen window is reality itself... barren zone is given a phantasmatic status, elevated into a spectacle.”
19:21 On Architecture and Aesthetics2010-06-10 · 1:06:36

“On the southern side of the demilitarized zone that divides North from South Korea, South Koreans built a unique visitor's site. A theatre building with a large screen-like window in front.”
25:55 Slavoj Žižek: Architecture as a Critique of Ideology2009 · 1:46:39

“They painted freshly all the houses, but only the southern side. They gave people better dresses... it's all how they were staged.”
57:17 Object a and the Function of Ideology2012 · 1:27:55

What it carries

one story, many jobs: the ideas this anecdote is deployed to argue, one tally mark per use (an idea page shows the same relation from the other end, as its shelf of stories)

contents · one story, 3 jobsuses

spectral proto-reality ×1 expressive correspondence ×1 desire is the desire of the Other ×1

Its cast and sources

populated by

Alejandro Zaera-Polo2 Daniel Libeskind2 Kim Il-sung2 Rem Koolhaas2 Frank Gehry2 kibbutz1 Metropolitan Opera House1 Starbucks1

alongside works

Tenerife Auditorium1 Stalinallee (Frankfurter Allee)1 South Bank Complex1 Shanghai Center1 Senate House1 San Marco Church1 Performing Architecture: Opera Houses, Theatres and Concert Halls for the Twenty-First Century1 Palace of the Soviets1

Told together with

40% Casa del Fascio vs. Stalinist Architecture 2 shared talks 22% Kinder Surprise Egg 2 shared talks 18% Darian Leader patient / 'Bed for two please' 2 shared talks

Every retelling 3

19:21 On Architecture and Aesthetics2010-06-10 · 1:06:36

South Korea built a theater whose screen-window frames the real North Korean border zone; North Korea responded with a fake model village whose lights and promenading inhabitants are staged. Reality is elevated into spectacle; barren zone acquires phantasmatic sublimity., illustrating inside/outside gap,spectacle / the Real,architectural framing

25:55 Slavoj Žižek: Architecture as a Critique of Ideology2009 · 1:46:39

A theatre building on the South Korean side of the DMZ features a large screen-like window, exemplifying the 'spectral' nature of reality viewed through an enclosure., illustrating spectral reality,expressive correspondence

57:17 Object a and the Function of Ideology2012 · 1:27:55

North Korea freshly paints only the south-facing side of a border city, dresses residents in better clothes, and obliges them to take evening walks, all performed for the South Korean gaze. Pure staging of identity for an external observer., illustrating desire as desire of the Other,national identity,staged authenticity