집의 안과 밖의 타자성을 통해서 본 거주의미

Abstract

The Covid-19 pandemic impacts and changes our homes, and it raises a significant issue in a contemporary context. In this sense, this study focuses on the term ‘alterity’ as an existing condition of the housing to reconsider the meaning of ‘home’; people might think they know already, but do not consider an essential meaning of the home. Although the house as the subject is a space where the subject dwells, it is also a space of others that receive the other into the subject’s realm. This study concentrates the aspects and features of alterity that include the implicit meaning of inside and outside of the house through analysing literature and artworks. In particular, this paper focuses on Yokomizo Shizuka's photography series, <Stranger(1999-2000)>, and Kim Ae-ran's short story, <Ipdong>. In these two works, the house is demonstrated as a place of confrontation, staring at one another, and the loss of a home, invaded by others. As those works presented, the house provides its possibility of communication and recovery beyond its confrontation and loss; it represents that the house can be understood as a residential space. The home presents the qualitative difference of the subject to us and connects the difference between inside and outside of the house; it allows the subject can exist as a being named rather than as an anonymous. This study examined a significant aspect of the house; the house can become a kind of vessel where our existence contains when the inside and outside of the house is connected with others, not only for the subject.