The Meaning of Dwelling through Analysing Alterity between Inside and Outside of House - Focusing on Yokomizo Shizuka’s 〈Stranger〉 and Kim Ae-ran’s 〈Ipdong〉 -

The Covid-19 pandemic impacts and changes our homes, and it raises a significant issue in a contemporary context. In this sense, this study focuses on the term ‘alterity’ as an existing condition of the housing to reconsider the meaning of ‘home’; people might think they know already, but do not consider an essential meaning of the home. Although the house as the subject is a space where the subject dwells, it is also a space of others that receive the other into the subject’s realm. This study concentrates the aspects and features of alterity that include the implicit meaning of inside and outside of the house through analysing literature and artworks. In particular, this paper focuses on Yokomizo Shizuka