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시선,
영원 속으로
Gaze into Eternity
시선,
영원 속으로
Gaze into Eternity
Gifts from
Germany
Telepathy And Landscapes
Telepathy And Landscapes
July 2018
Readymade Objects
Group Exhibition Zeitgeist at the Institut Für Alles Mögliche in Berlin
Close-to-perfect orientation and curatorship at the exhibitions in Germany was my great inspiration during the study trip for Dada. Using readymade objects, I created a series of artworks that function as decorative containers for the gifts I bought for my friends and family.
2018 - 2019
Archival project to explore the beauty of Korea
The ongoing archives of Telepathy And Landscapes (TAL) currently include visual and sound documentation of performances, conversations, objects and field researches.
Since 2018, I became very interested in the origin of my cultural background to research the context of my superego after having traveled around the Europe in summer. I have grown up mostly in a western environment as my parents sent me to a private Christian elementary school in Korea, and I moved alone to Canada at my age 14. Although I never had a good
chance to deeply inquire about my national identity, I always knew by heart that my conscience was deeply rooted in the culture of Korea.
When I came to visit home during the vacations, I had field trips to historic places to trace down my national identity and made a series of collaborative projects to explore the visual aesthetic and philosophy of Korea. In 2019, my friends and I formed an anonymous performance group named TAL (Telepathy And Landscapes), meaning mask in Korean (referring to Hahoe Mask). The purpose of this collective movement is to understand our origin in-depth by researching, performing, and making civic scale art to raise awareness to appreciate the intrinsic value of Korean folk rituals, shamanism, architecture, and natural landscapes.
2018 - 2019
Archival project to explore the beauty of Korea
The ongoing archives of Telepathy And Landscapes (TAL) currently include visual and sound documentation of performances, conversations, objects and field researches.
Since 2018, I became very interested in the origin of my cultural background to research the context of my superego after having traveled around the Europe in summer. I have grown up mostly in a western environment as my parents sent me to a private Christian elementary school in Korea, and I moved alone to Canada at my age 14. Although I never had a good
chance to deeply inquire about my national identity, I always knew by heart that my conscience was deeply rooted in the culture of Korea.
When I came to visit home during the vacations, I had field trips to historic places to trace down my national identity and made a series of collaborative projects to explore the visual aesthetic and philosophy of Korea. In 2019, my friends and I formed an anonymous performance group named TAL (Telepathy And Landscapes), meaning mask in Korean (referring to Hahoe Mask). The purpose of this collective movement is to understand our origin in-depth by researching, performing, and making civic scale art to raise awareness to appreciate the intrinsic value of Korean folk rituals, shamanism, architecture, and natural landscapes.
Manifesto of November 2018
Hosu Lee
I have investigated mainly about my identity as an artist. I have been reflecting all of my previous works and curated them in a solo show under a theme to find my identity. Am I a sculptor who creates work in the realm of art and technology? What is context/territory of my practice? Who are my audience and what/why do they want to see and get from my artwork? If my artwork does not mainly belong to the art market, how can I still fully be able to continue my practice economically after graduating BFA without financial support from parents?
I was unsure of how I can represent myself as an artist other than showing my artwork and talking about it. However, this seems a bit absurd because I do not even fully understand what it is created by me. It has certainly come out of me, but It seems absurd to see myself trying to explain all about something that can become more than what I know. It does not seem right to define my artwork solely by what I think it is, rather it should only be my perspective as a third person, but perhaps it is right to say that I have the deepest relationship with my artwork than any other. I want my artwork to talk about itself directly to the viewer. It is an independent presence apart from me. I can talk about my own practice, but the artwork should be able to talk all about itself by its own. It may sound impossible, but I certainly believe that there is a magical realm where the nonsense communication is possible that leads to the same revelation that artist has gone through.
Every one of my artworks seems to be all different in media. My practice always begins from the curiosity for something, and I choose or happen to choose (in more mystical sense) only the necessary media/material to investigate my curiosity. So, I cannot say that I am an artist who uses certain media yet or forever. I am not even certain that I will continue to create 3-dimensional work (or materialistic artwork) because it all depends on where my curiosity leads. Then, in what end, I can call it “artwork” which begins from invisible/chaotic to visible/order? What is significant in every stage of the development of an artwork, and is there possibly a masterpiece that would turn every previous artwork accumulation for one “big picture”?
I do not like art becoming a representation or celebration of something else. It sounds blasphemy to art and shameful for artist. I do not want any authority above art, treating art as their modes of celebration. I believe that art is the highest above all discipline, indeed the mother of every discipline. It is the very first miracle that happens in mind that forces a creation. I want to invent a set of tools to discover the truth that has existed from the beginning, not visible and tangible yet. I do not want to belong to any category that already provides accustomed structure to seek the truth, such as religion and science.