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Once the capital of the five-hundred-year Choson dynasty
(1392-1897) and the Taehan Empire (1897-1910), the city of Seoul
posed unique challenges to urban reform and modernization under
Japanese colonial rule in the early twentieth century, constrained
by the labyrinthian built environment of the old Korean capital.
Colonial authorities attempted to employ a strategy of
"erasure"-monumental Japanese architecture was, for instance,
superimposed upon existing palace structures-to articulate to
colonized Korean subjects the transition from the pre-modern to the
modern, and the naturalization of colonial rule as inevitable
historical change. Drawing from and analyzing a wide range of
materials, from architecture and photography to print media and
sound recordings, City of Sediments shows how Seoul became a site
to articulate a new mode of time-modernity-that defined the place
of the colonized in accordance with the progression of history, and
how the underbelly of the city, latent places of darkness filled
with chatters of the alleyway, challenged this visual language of
power. To do so, Se-Mi Oh builds an inventive new model of history
where discrete events do not unfold one after the other, but rather
one in which histories layer atop each other like sediment,
allowing a new map of colonial Seoul to emerge, a map where the
material traces of the city are overlapping, with vibrant residues
of earlier times defiantly visible among the superimposed signs of
modernity and colonial domination.
Once the capital of the five-hundred-year Chosŏn dynasty
(1392–1897) and the Taehan Empire (1897–1910), the city of
Seoul posed unique challenges to urban reform and modernization
under Japanese colonial rule in the early twentieth century,
constrained by the labyrinthian built environment of the old Korean
capital. Colonial authorities attempted to employ a strategy of
"erasure"—monumental Japanese architecture was, for instance,
superimposed upon existing palace structures—to articulate to
colonized Korean subjects the transition from the pre-modern to the
modern, and the naturalization of colonial rule as inevitable
historical change. Drawing from and analyzing a wide range of
materials, from architecture and photography to print media and
sound recordings, City of Sediments shows how Seoul became a site
to articulate a new mode of time—modernity—that defined the
place of the colonized in accordance with the progression of
history, and how the underbelly of the city, latent places of
darkness filled with chatters of the alleyway, challenged this
visual language of power. To do so, Se-Mi Oh builds an inventive
new model of history where discrete events do not unfold one after
the other, but rather one in which histories layer atop each other
like sediment, allowing a new map of colonial Seoul to emerge, a
map where the material traces of the city are overlapping, with
vibrant residues of earlier times defiantly visible among the
superimposed signs of modernity and colonial domination.
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