In April 2014, a ship named Sewol, carrying 476 passengers on its way to Jeju Island, sank into the Yellow Sea, near South Korea. The shipwreck exposed the Park administration's incapacity to save civilians and ignited a huge political scandal that eventually impeached and imprisoned the President. In this paper, I centrally discuss two ways of performance art's embodiment of the actual/imagined body of its subjects through stage devices (the prosthetic) and reconstruction of the audience's

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... e of temporality (the stage as temporal indicator), by examining a South Korean performance piece's engagement with the navigational failure and the systematic racialization of Southeast Asian immigrants by multiculturalist art policies and apparatuses.