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Where Water Remembers is a research-based project and three-channel multimedia documentary that traces the continuities of imperial violence and colonialism along riverbanks and waterways. Centering the narratives of Zainichi Korean communities and individuals who cultivated their lives near these waters, the work reads these sites as “embodied archives.” To investigate how collective trauma and memory are embodied and transmitted, Yun conducted research across eight cities in Japan—excluding Okinawa and Northern Japan—interviewing secondto fifth-generation descendants of those who migrated under Japanese imperial violence. Through these encounters, the work examines how gendered labour and migration, familial memory, narratives of care, and acts of mourning are embodied, circulated, and sustained across time and generations. The title reflects a geographic and political reality: the residential areas of these communities were predominantly situated in marginal territories avoided by the Japanese public—along riverbanks, canals, and near sites of (forced) labour. By viewing the Japanese archipelago as an island defined by its aquatic borders, the project approaches these contested peripheries as the spaces “where water remembers.”
