Jeonyeok 8si wa goyangi (8 pm and the cat)

Cartoonist Haru loses his partner, Mina, in the Itaewon tragedy. Since then, 8 pm — the hour she used to come home — keeps repeating: an ordinary moment in daily life now shadowed by her absence. Within that single hour, different emotional rooms unfold. Images and monologues are generated in real time, shaping singular emotional moments. This generative VR experience invites the audience into Haru’s ongoing process of mourning — through the act of constantly drawing and speaking about her.

When a friend told me they didn’t know how to live after losing the person they loved most, I didn’t know what to say. How could I possibly grasp the depth of that grief? We don’t even know what it truly means to overcome such sorrow. Maybe it means to keep longing for the one who’s gone, to keep speaking to them, to let them stay alive inside us. This work was an attempt to hold onto that feeling — of loving someone for a long time, beyond absence.

PRODUCTION:
K ARTS Art Technology Lab - Seung Pyo Kang, Sngmoo Lee
L229, 146-37 Hwarang-ro 32-gil, Seongbuk-gu
02789 Seoul, Korea (Republic of)
Tel: +82 27469504 / +82 1097900224
E-mail: pyoism@karts.ac.kr
Web: https://kartsat.com
Social Media: http://instagram.com/8pm.and.cat - Instagram, https://www.instagram.com/karts_at/ - Instagram, https://www.facebook.com/atone.karts/ - Facebook, https://www.youtube.com/@atlab.k-arts - YouTube

WORLD SALES:
K ARTS Art Technology Lab - Dooyoung Cho
L229, 146-37 Hwarang-ro 32-gil, Seongbuk-gu
02789 Seoul, Korea (Republic of)
Tel: +82 27469548 / +82 1039201942
E-mail: distribution@kartsat.com
Web: https://www.kartsat.com
Social Media: https://www.youtube.com/@atlab.k-arts - YouTube, https://www.instagram.com/karts_at/ - Instagram

PRESS OFFICE:
Dooyoung Cho - K ARTS Art Technology Lab
L229, 146-37 Hwarang-ro 32-gil, Seongbuk-gu
02789 Seoul, Korea (Republic of)
Tel: +82 27469548 / +82 1039201940
E-mail: distribution@kartsat.com