Themes
2022 Seoul International Writers' Festival
Beyond Narrative
- Date2022.09.23.(Fri) ~ 2022.09.30.(Fri)
- VenueSeoul Community Culture Center Seogyo / Community House Masil / Incheon Airport Terminal 2, 3F Public Area(Great Hall)
- Organizing CommitteeKang Ji-hee, Kim Kyung-uk, Kim Miwol, Sin Yong-mok, Wu ChanJe
Beyond Narrative
Beyond narratives lie narratives. There are people before citizens, animals before livestock, and woods before roadside trees—just like narratives. Beyond the act of writing, all boundaries are erased, and things lay there like dreams.
Some things are present yet merely imagined, like death and war.
Some things are absent but have long been imagined, like life and peace.
We do not believe in a designed future. A future that has already been narrated can’t possibly be our future. There, we’ll only encounter the present reconstructed from the past. We hope that the place beyond is out of reach of prospects and predictions based on the present.
Therefore, beyond narratives, there should be promises, not goals. We promise that we will simply exist as ourselves, standing by the birds, the trees and the stones.
New narratives always begin beyond narratives.
Welcome to the
2022 Seoul International Writers' Festival.