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Nothing But A Symphony

Date: 2014

Media: single-channel video with

sound; 4:20 min.

Dimensions: variable

Video Link:

https://vimeo.com/104112703

Nothing But A Symphony sees the

world as vibrating melodies in uni-

son. The Korean top cellist Jungran

Lee plays an invisible cello in con-

cert with a jellyfish and primary col-

ors, creating a rhythmical harmony

of Nature.


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Sense (avscularemain)

Date: 2014

A collaboration with Ali Van

Media: an audio-play with Ali Vans

voice-over (an excerpt from Andr

Bretons Mad Love), scented plants,

performance with sound; 1hour.


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All Men Are Created Equal Bullshit

Date: 2011

Media: two-channel slide projection

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All men are created equal Bullshitconsists of

two slide projections of myself transporting

water through mouth, from river to ground, asI write Thomas Jeffersons immortal phrase,

All men are created equal - to which I add:

bullshit. I created a condition struggle for

this action by taping myself up. The laborious

action appears absurd in light of New York

Citys skyline, emblematic of the overdevel-

oped city in contrast to the potent struggle

of the masses against neo-liberal capitalism.


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Nightmare

Date: 2011


sound; 2:44 min

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Nightmare is composed of two single-channel videos. I created a gun-projector that I altered a

beam-projector by attaching a M16 BB gun with a 100m electrical wire. The projector becomes

movable so that the performer can take it out. The performer shoots the images of bombs on smokeand moving trains at night. The reflected images are the historical bomb-drop done by U.S. army

during Korean War. The images with the memory of war soon disappear as the smoke evaporates


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Nightmare

Date: 2011

Media: single-channel video with sound; 2:44 min

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Nightmare is composed of two single-channel videos. I created a gun-projector that I altered a

beam-projector by attaching a M16 BB gun with a 100m electrical wire. The projector becomes

movable so that the performer can take it out. The performer shoots the images of bombs on smoke

and moving trains at night. The reflected images are the historical bomb-drop done by U.S. army

during Korean War. The images with the memory of war soon disappear as the smoke evaporates


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Melt, Flow, Breathe

Date: 2013

Media: two-channel video with

sound/sound installation, fur; 10:00

min. loop

Dimensions: approx. 150 x 150 x

60

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Melt, Flow, Breatheis a two-channel video in which two separate yet identical frames interact with

one another. Each frame shows snow flakes in the air. They appear and disappear in concert with

the humming sounds by a man and a woman. When the two distinct humming sounds are synced

the two frames become unified. When the two sounds are out of sync, the frames become sepa-

rated.


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Building/Unbuilding

Date: 2013

Media: various found objects, TV,

sound


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Ideasthesia

Date: 2013

Media:

a TV monitor, a cellist playing air-cello, while re-

membering Dmitri Shostakovichs music (above)

an old USSR speaker manifactured in 60s with

the wind sound (below)

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Ideasthesia

Date: 2013

Media: a TV monitor, a cellist play-

ing air-cello, while remembering

Dmitri Shostakovichs music

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Ideathesia combines the notions of performativity and imagination it explores how to performimagination. The word ideasthesia is a phenomenon in which the activation of ideas evokes per-

ception-like experiences. The term is etymologically derived from the ancient Greek verb idea (idea)

and aisthesis (sensation), referring to sensing concepts. The project explores how we sense things

witout actual stimuli, but through imagination and association.


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Big Seoul 1971

Date: 2011

Media: c-print

Dimensions: approx. 40 x 60


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Big Seoul 1971

Date: 2011


sound;1:27 min.

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Big Seoul 1971 was inspired by a

poet Kwang Seop Kim, who wroteBig Seoul in 1971. The works

send out a message to recollect

our Seoul. Now that Seoul is turning

into a materialistic and visual place

day by day after the rapid change

from 1950 to 1960, the city has lost

a true meaning of existence.

I produced film-stickers of ordinary

sceneries with Han River as thecenter. A beautiful night view and

wealthiness of the present city proj-

ect memories and history of Seoul.

Images of ladies doing laundry with

laundry bats, a water carrier with

water pitcher, children skating and

sleighing on a surface of frozen riv-

er, and old sceneries of Han Riv-

er are pinned on a highway road.

These two different images wandervoidly between the past and the

present and they flutter lightly inside

our memories like a thin transparent

film.


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Window Project

Date: 2005 - 2011

Media: c-print, translucent film on windows, site-spe-

cific installation (below)

the recycled film with a live plant (right)

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Window Project

Date: 2005 - 2011

Media: c-prints, translucent film on

windows, the recycled film from

the window installation


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Under Construction

Date: 2014

Media: c-prints

Dimensions: 35 x 24 each


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Beautiful

Date: 2008

Media: c-prints, translucent film on

windows, the recycled film from the

window


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Beautiful

Date: 2008

Media: digital c-print


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Perfect Lovers

Date: 2012

Media: a clock, a mirror (abovr)

two-channel video; 3:50 min. (below)

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You Think Yourself in Me and I Am Your Consciousness

Date: 2012

Media: single-channel video; 1:51 min.

Video Link: https://vimeo.com/69781124


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Less is Known on Earth

Date: 2015

Media: blue and red glow lights,

clay, objects made out of science

books, geometric-shaped objects,

rulers, scented plants, natural ob-

jects, performance; 2 hours.

Dimensions: 442 x 300 x 192

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Less is Known on Earthis an inter-

disciplinary installation project that

explores the relationship between

the Earth itself and the way that

our mind projects meanings onto

it. The project places our notions

of objects into question, revealingtheir irreducible qualities beyond

our comprehension. The exhibition

presents man-made objects, nat-

ural objects, scientific experiments,

and historical art works that reflect

things on Earth. For the project, I

research how disciplines join to-

gether in order to generate a flow

of meanings through a network of

connections. This flow creates in-tersections between what has been

considered the traditional sphere

of art and what lies outside that

boundary.


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