Less is Known on Earth

Date: 2015
Media: blue and red glow lights,
objects made out of science books,
geometric-shaped objects, rulers, scented plants, natural objects,
performance; 2 hours.
Dimensions: 442 x 300 x 192
Video Link:
https://vimeo.com/123510391

Less is Known on Earth is an interdisciplinary installation project that

explores the relationship between
the Earth itself and the way that
our mind projects meanings onto
it. The project presents objects on
Earth back in question, revealing
their irreducible qualities beyond
our comprehension. The exhibition
presents man-made objects, natural objects, scientific experiments,
and historical art works that reflect
things on Earth. For the project, I
research and organize various disciplines together, generating the
flow of meanings through a network
of connectivity.

When All Things Evaporate

Well Talk About Minerals
Date: 2014
Media: Books, natural minerals,
geometric-shaped objects, performance; 1 hour.
Dimensions: 450 x 450 x 300
Video Link:
https://vimeo.com/101802618

A meteorite-shaped object made out of a

book about meteorties.

I will move through air

A Woman Who Taught Me
How to Write in Her Dreams
Is The Reader Outer Space?
Date: 2015
Media: objects made out of science
books, geometric-shaped objects,
natural objects, fossils, poems,
perfumes, poems, performance; 2
hours.
Dimensions: 100 x 16 x 16
Video Link:
https://vimeo.com/134907186

If the Earth is a curator, what does

an exhibition look like? The premises are to think about the Earth as
a living organism, and to grasp the
earths perspective to look at the
world. It broadens the subject of art
more worldly, including the world of
something-other-than-humans.
At this exhibition, dancers wander
through structures containing phrases written by Raimundas Malaauskas, objects resembling ores, and
paintings symbolizing zero gravity
or nothingness. Through these elements, the artist seeks to induce
visitors to ask a basic question
about themselves from the perspective of the universe rather than
from a human perspective.

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 unison. The Korean top cellist Jungran Lee plays an invisible cello in
concert with a jellyfish, and primary
colors, creating a rhythmical harmony of Nature.

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.
Dimensions: variable
Video Link:
https://vimeo.com/106740766

Less is Known on Earth

Date: 2014
Media: various objects, the sheep brains,
scented plants, performance; 1 hour.
Dimensions: variable

Music Thinks Itself in Me

Date: 2014
Media: a string quartet; performance; 30:00 min.
String Quartet from Orquesta Da
Capo Montevideo:
Bruno Gonzalez(violin)
Erika Alonso(violin)
Rodrigo Aon(viola)
Ignacio Aon(cello)
In the entrance hall of the museum, the four musicians of a string quartet sit on chairs, while playing
a piece of music together without the instruments; i.e., a cellist, a violist, and two violinists play the
air instruments by remembering a piece of music in their mind; each musician uses the memory
of the music to activate the action of playing the instrument, and the action retroactively helps to
stimulate the auditory memory. The musicians are fragmented individuals, while they move towards
a shared destiny through imagination.
Video Link:
https://vimeo.com/90288236

Becoming Pollens
Date: 2014
Media: powdered flags
(South Korea and North Korea)
Dimensions: approx. 4 x 4 feet

Becoming Pollens is composed of the powdered flags of North and South Korea. The powdered
flags are put under the two empty flags as if they are bleached out. The pile of powder has lost its
original forms and meanings as flags. The white blank flags show the emptiness that was once filled
out by symbolic meanings. That is to say, the powdered flags fail to be symbolized, revealing the
very substances. It lies between the flag as substance and the flag as subject: it intersects between
what it is and what it means. However, by being mixed, the powdered flags posit in the new symbolic
meaning of the re-unification between two Koreas.

Becoming Pollens
Date: 2014
Media: powdered flags of the exact
color proportions from eight national
flags; Argentia, Chile, Czech, Korea(south), Lithuania, Poland, Uruguay,
and the United States.
Dimensions: approx. 30 x 10 x 0.1
Hotel de Inmigrantes
Museo Juan Manuel Blanes, Montevideo, Uruguay

Melt, Flow, Breathe

Date: 2013
Media: two-channel video with sound, fur; 10:00 min. loop
Dimensions: approx. 150 x 150 x 60
Video Link:
https://vimeo.com/81760006

Melt, Flow, Breathe is a two-channel video in which two separate yet identical frames interact with
one another. Each frame shows snow flakes that fly in the air. They appear and disappear in concert with the humming sounds of a man and a woman. When the two distinct humming sounds are
synced, the frames become one. When the two sounds are out of sync, the frames also become
separated.

Building/Unbuilding
Date: 2013
Media: various found objects, TV,
sound
Dimensions: variable
Video Link:
https://vimeo.com/69780628

Ideasthesia
Date: 2013
Media:
a TV monitor, a cellist playing air-cello, while remembering Dmitri Shostakovichs music (above)
an old USSR speaker manifactured in
60s with the wind sound (below)
Video link:
https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=qb9pFdeIH4c

Perfect Lovers
Date: 2012
Media: Performance;1 hour.
Dimensions: variable
Two people dressing in military uniform hold two identical clocks. The performance, informed by
the work of Felix Gonzalez-Torres, comments on identity struggles and relationships under oppressive militarization and its overt masculinized rituals. The work also draws on the ambivalent alliance
between the American and the South Korean militaries in South Korea, pointing to issues of local
discrimination of Korean officers and the economic opportunities brought by the US military bases
in South Korea.

All Men Are Created Equal Bullshit

Date: 2011
Media: two-channel slide projection
Video Link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPlm28h5otw

All men are created equal Bullshit consists of

two slide projections of myself transporting
water through mouth, from river to ground, as
I 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 overdeveloped city in contrast to the potent struggle
of the masses against neo-liberal capitalism.

Nightmare
Date: 2011
Media: single-channel video with
sound; 2:44 min., 2:17 min. respectively
Video Links:
https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=9UpfMZAUe94
https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=_fOcel905Qk
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.

Big Seoul 1971

Date: 2011
Media: single-channel video with
sound;1:27 min.
Video Link:
https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=z0BqGbklDGc

Big Seoul 1971 was inspired by a

poet Kwang Seop Kim, who wrote
Big 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 the
center. A beautiful night view and
wealthiness of the present city project 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 river, and old sceneries of Han River are pinned on a highway road.
These two different images wander
voidly between the past and the
present and they flutter lightly inside
our memories like a thin transparent
film.

Window Project
Date: 2005 - 2011
Media:
translucent film on windows, site-specific installation
(below)
the recycled film with a live plant (right)
Video Link:
https://vimeo.com/89045616

Window Project
Date: 2005 - 2011
Media: the recycled film from the window installation
Video Link:
https://vimeo.com/89045616

Window Project
Date: 2007
Media: translucent flim on windows, photographic documentation.

Neo Gothec Fashion

Date: 2004 - 2006
Media: clothes made of straws, performance, photographs, wall painting
Dimension: approx. 300 x 300 x 192