ARCHIVE du patrimoine immatériel de NAVARRE

  • Année de publication:
    2019
  • Auteurs:
  • -   Myonghoon, Lee
  • Magazine:
    Intangible Heritage Studies
  • Volume:
    4
  • Numéro:
    2
  • Pages:
    261–295
  • ISSN:
    2508-3694
The process of transmission of Gochang Nongak didn’t stop at recovery and passeddown to only having composition, procedure and tune. The transmission was a process of many encounters, exchanges, and communication with the current performers, researchers, appreciators, 14 Eup and Myeon Nongak groups, Gochang residents, the country administration, university Pungmul groups and affinity group members from all around the country. Furthermore, it is also a continuous process of communication with the next generation as well as encounters with the old. As many discussions, concerns, and practices were modified to fit the intangible cultural asset mold, it became aparent that Gochan Nongak is an intangible cultural asset rather than a tangible cultural asset only experienced through various stages in our lives at certain events. The first time I experienced transmission was through old masters at the Gochang Nongak in 1991 through meeting them in person. As mentioned above, the only way intangible cultural assets can be transmitted fully in its capacity is through human interactions. Any intangible cultural assets with no one performing it will eventually disappear. It will take a long time before restoring it to an intangible cultural asset that it once was. If Gochang Nongak Group was not organized in 1985, there would have been no one to deliver or to receive it, as Gochang Nongak would have disappeared into our minds and history.The second most important value in transmission of Gochang Nongak is the site of Gut, the very familiar places in our lives. Nongak as a performance is important. However, most important sites for Gochang Nongak are villages where Gut has been and being played. Such places like Dangsan the sacred mountain, or springs, houses, and ridges between rice paddies, which are the very sites of Gut.The duties of Gochang Nongak Preservation Society with a focus on transmission does not stop at simply dissemination and enjoying of the Nongak currently available. There is a process to form in the ‘past-present-future’ as one mixture. The ‘now-here’ is always communicating with our past through research, visits, oral recordings, excavations, and from reproduction of various extinct Gut forms in order to meet and guide the future generations.