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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 in Glasgow
December 2018
I am writing this to my potential audience at Yale University in New Haven. I am at the verge of my greatest fantasy where I can meet the people who will pursue my artwork as a divine dialogue that can lead us to the truth. I must find these people in order to celebrate and glorify the birth in the future.
I have been chosen by this idea that desires to be contained within me. This idea is an invisible entity, yet undeniable presence that prevails my existence. I have doubted myself many times about the possibility of having an independent being inside me, but it continuously reveals itself through the objects of my reflection. Since I am only petty dust in the universe like everyone, I cannot bear the truth all by myself. I must need the people who can nurture this idea together to bring forth the birth.
I believe that I am not the only one chosen by this presence. From my observation, this genuine presence dwells in timeless realm that has existed forever. I have attempted to reach its origin but found the infinity inside filled with emptiness and darkness. I have also attempted to reach its end and realized that is just another beginning. I must meet the people who have overcome the persistent nihilism of our mortality to force the birth of eternity.
I have been deluded by the beauty of my imitation and drowning into the endless narcissism, believing that is the ultimate virtue of humanity. The love of narcissist has shifted from myself towards the artwork, believing that the love of motherhood is the soul of genius. Then, I have discovered this presence with a sublime impression that I can never call myself either a narcissist or genius again. I have witnessed an impossible spark of the birth by its almighty power in the darkest abyss of nothingness. I must work with the people calling this presence, “Art—our mother of all disciplines!”
My dearest audience in the future, my artwork does not serve for any existing discipline, but purely celebrate and glorify the physical presence of art. O my dearest people in my fantasy, we can finally meet in the midst of desperate search for each other to pursue altogether the divine nature of art. I am only petty dust in the universe who cannot bear the truth all by itself.
Sincerely,
Hosu Lee