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시선,
영원 속으로
Gaze into Eternity

시선,
영원 속으로
Gaze into Eternity

Gifts from

Germany

Performing Our Hope

Performing Our Hope

Performing Our Hope

Telepathy And Landscapes

Telepathy And Landscapes

Birth Treasure (Fingers)

Birth Treasure (Neck)

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.

Time
Machine

The Flashback

(2017-2018)

June 2018

Finalized Installation of Pendulum Project

Group Exhibition Algomotion at Flaxspace

Art and Technology Department at SAIC held a special exhibition curated by the faculty members, called Algomotion. For three and half minutes, The Activator and the Pendulum operated together to give the programmed performance of the mechanical symphony. I called it Time Machine.

The combination of The Activator and the Pendulum creates an intense visual and auditory experience that often shocks people by the loudness of the compressed air, resonance and vibration from transducers and speakers. The strong scent from red cedar also evokes the nostalgic feeling towards the forgotten space and time. Time Machine sounds chaotic and disturbing in the beginning, but every sound component deliberately and slowly harmonize each other to create the rhythm, silence, and termination like a symphony. The uncanny nature of time in childhood is expressed through the symphony of mechanical sound with the motion of pendulum. It is the destruction of the logical distinction between past, present, and future, while constructing the reality of time in our faded intuition, that is not absolute, but relative.

Symphony of

Time Machine

3m 30s performance

I have a fantasy in my childhood that I do not remember. I think that every culture has the fantasies about their forgotten origins which gradually form into religion, philosophy, and so-called truth. One of the greatest illusion that we have ever created is the concept of time which has reconciled the chaos of memory and imagination. Now, we are awake in the present between tiny fragments of time. Our memories in childhood still inhabit in the timeless chaos that cannot be remembered. The chaos is the universe outside the cave that we have built.

It is very strange that I cannot resist some nostalgic feelings about what I do not remember. I wanted to go back to where I was belong to, the wholeness and selfless. But I cannot remember what it is. It can never be remembered. So I desperately needed something that can take me there. If our present is all mingled with the endless layers of timeframe, it should already be right here, might not be tangible, but nonetheless physical. The birth and death also coexist here, working every second, constantly repeating the process. But still I am alive, present, awake.

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