Na(v)in Party Seoul
2007
Tomorrow
Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea

As part of the international exhibition Tomorrow for the 1st Platform Seoul organised by SAMUSO, the Navin Party set up a presentation center at Kumho Museum of Art in Seoul. At the entrance to the theatrical space, audiences were greeted with a neon sign “Who is Nabin” written in Korean (a language that uses “b” instead of “v”). Entering the black box, the other two English neon signs were presented above two of Navin Production’s signature movie painting. Leading into a projection room where the film was screening, “NOW SHOWING” promoted Navins of Bollywood. On the other wall,the “COMING SOON” sign introduced Imagine Nabin, a new chapter of the Navin Party’s adventure in the Korean peninsula.
Scheduled for release at the second edition of Platform Seoul in October 2008, Imagine Nabin is a sentimental tale of two Nabins from North and South Korea. Starring Korean talents Lina Ahn and Christina Jung, alongside Navin Production mainstays Navin Rawanchaikul and Pandit Chanrochanakit, Imagine Nabin, tells the story of the Navin Party chairman coming to Korea to see his old friend Pandit. Along the way he discovers that Korea, a country with a language that has no ‘v’, is home to numerous young women and girls who share his name, Nabin. Erecting a Navin Party office in Seoul, Navin and Nabin (Lina Ahn) gather together the Nabin of Korea. When they attempt to connect with Nabin in the North they are turned away by the authorities. Meanwhile, with a relationship emerging between them, Pandit and Nabin devise a crude plan to evade border authorities and send leafleting balloons north. Both are arrested as the first balloon is released. Distressed by the rejection Navin goes off to drink and is out of contact. All the while, almost in another world, a lone leaflet changes the life of a Nabin in North Korea (Christina Jung), who sneaks into Seoul and joins the Navins of the world to campaign for the couple’s release.