광장의 권력과 기억 공동체 - 5·18 담론 공간의 장소성 변형을 중심으로 -

Abstract

This writing began with an idea of the tool-like value of the square as a place for public discourse. First, autonomous deterritorialization is achieved through a rational understanding based on the practical need and desire of the space user. On the other hand, re-territorialization by batting average is based on the political merit or a rational understanding of the special economy. This paper focuses on these two gaps that will emerge when the square as a discourse space of the city changes in terms of material structure and abstract perception. The area of former JeollaNam-do provincial office located in Gwangju is tangibleevidence that allows us to understand the isolation and resistance of Gwangju May 1980 from the perspective of the party. In addition, it is a space that carries a thesis that can bring the experience of the place to the level of human political dilemma. On the other hand, is also an example of the process of becoming a place of memory struggle in which opposing confrontation of spatial memory is incorporated while being incorporated into political re-territorialization, when the occupation of space is completed and the positionality of the place is changed by the dominant system of political power. Therefore, this article, I attempted to examine the process of collective identity experiencing the reconfiguration of emotion and consciousness while accepting new abstract information according to the transformation of physical space. Considering the restructuring of the area of former Jeonnam provincial office centered on the Asian Culture Center, urban malpractice resulting from the loss of subjectivity in the process of memory struggle over space power can be said to be the experience of ‘death of transformed space’ or ‘mechanical objectification of cognition’. This shows that the spatial transformation of space is not solely caused by requiring or changing the perception of space users. In order for the cultural city space including the ACC to function as a base for the regeneration of the city and cross-social communication, the process of bringing in the daily routines of the space users on the unfamiliar terrain and the objects that have been transplanted into the space should be followed. After all, Gwangju’s 5·18 discourse space must be returned to those who have experienced and remembered it. So it will be memorized and memorized again, or in another form, and it will be able to create the value of another exchange with the memory of its solidarity.