performance-drawing installation
-- BIO-ESTHETICS :
Out of the Boundary of Concept - artless/mindless/conceptless
Walking ; being-a walking machine or, being-a map, being-a road
and --
What was the energy that made me walk for 4-5 hours a day
all week? Well, I naturally like walking. It is something good enough
as it is - it does not require being bound to any prepared attitude
nor objectives. That is, quoting Richard Long's witty remark, walking
that can “just do without any techniques". Walking is like performing
with oneself and one's basic instincts in the view that the only thing
required is one's own body, hence enabling everyone to indulge, as it
does not require any material, particular disposition nor pondering.
In other words, it can be a relaxation, exercise, means to flourish
our speculation and concentrate our mind and eliminate conceptual thoughts.
Such complex function presents us with new direction of contemplation
in a way that it does not subordinate us to a certain frame of concepts.
This un-subjective ”incident“ called walking awakens our bodily senses
to activate which contrast against incompetence of concepts. Above all,
walking functions in both ways- tiring us and building energy for us
at the same time. Anyway, Walking outside of the boundaries
of perception which binds us in our daily life means preparing new body-sense
to feel the world. When I get back to daily life from walking, I seem
to be the same, but during the process of my walk, I greet my infinite
possibilities - inspirations that can change me by letting me become
somewhat different “being”- apart from all the subjects. If the condition
how it was created within karma is as interesting as a work of art itself,
there can be people who consider the "bio-system" which created
such karma more dearly. There lied the reason why I reminded myself
of the question "What is an artistic life" when I was invited
to Dessau. We come across the term "Artistic mind" quite often.
But what about the expression "Artistic body"? Doesn't it
sound a bit bizarre? Why? If artistic mind can exist, artistic body-which
is a medium connecting the field enabling artistic life and karma delicately-should
too, exist. Even only for few moments. As a matter of fact, my project
begins from the 'karma' which brought me to an eco-cultural and historical
place named <Georgium Garden>.
The work condition given for me here enabled me to do anything
and yet forbid me to do anything-that is, there lied whole lot of biological
conditions to respect. It was based on the tranquil and yet persistent
will and attitude my host Johanna Bartl, which respects historical sites
and natural ecological rhythm as a precious and interesting culture-artistic
condition and plans to save the local environment into some aesthetic
practice. For I had heard how she was working on her project even since
I was in Korea, her will really came into the mind. I too, supported
her conditions and approached with much interest. Influenced by Johanna's
attitude, I conjured up a term 'Realization of Bio-aesthetics' to describe
such project. Not only because most of my works until now were all so
distant from conditions such as studios or commercial galleries provide,
I was already interested in matters like how a <PLACE> is being
"conditioned". However, what I consequently practised here
was because that I was in a state of 'void' as I had done a lot and
yet there was nothing done-which was the exact condition the host wanted.
That also matched karma which matches well with the preservative quality
of historical Georgium Garden. In other words, it might be possible
to say that I was stole a glance at the gap between 'nothing' and 'void‘.
On the evening when my family arrived in Dessau, the calm
evening sky was decorated with sonorous rainbow far away at the corner
of the southern sky. We cheered with joy since it felt as if it was
welcoming the karma that took us there and our little family. When I
made up my mind to draw on the theme of '7 Days of Walk' at Georgium
park, I remembered that very rainbow. The karma that I felt while walking
the path along the Georgium Garden was historical and socio-cultural
itself, and I drew the map of fantastic landscape where the karma became
the rainbow.
The reason that I was impressed and admired this year's
programme <PLACES, JOURNEYS, IMAGES/PICTURES>-which is one of
the projects planned by an artist named Johanna Bartl who moved to the
city as she cared and loved the bio-design of the historical garden
so dearly and sincerely practised artistic projects dedicated to public
sites lonesomely but consistently- met the bio-aspect of my body.
At last my body becomes a machine in the ways of Deleuze/Gatari.
A machine that walks. My body becomes an animal that walks, a path,
a map and eventually a rainbow. My body escapes my subject and becomes
a possibility for all walks. Body transforms into antennae to sense
the walk. Sense with walk. My body becomes the world, the history, the
mode of life in this garden. To put it in words, my body becomes my
otherness. Experiencing otherness, different velocity of bio-life, repetition-continuance
which is different from what my body experienced only for myself. On
the process, I become a bio-life without concepts, boundaries, effects,
rewards, objectives. A walk that becomes a walk which comes before the
conflict of my body and mind. Holding the justification of walking seven
days(one week) took seven colours, I walk Georgium Garden as a hallucination
which coloured the paths with various colours. I am walking and hope
for that the walk to not to trespass through the brain but be the result
of direct operation of nerve system. I walk between shades and sunshines.
That is, I walk the path in different colours each day. The body becomes
the sense of the walk itself, and each step wholly becomes the mind
and the body. Walking until the moment comes. The moment when my body
secedes the perception system and give the start sign to the nerve system
directly. The moment when the subject escapes and walk becomes nothing
but a sense of violence. I am only a absurd gait itself. Infinite gait
walks as the other of significance and efficiency shun the pursuit of
identicalization followed by rationality. Opposing communication and
going in advance of the meanings, "walk" becomes otherness
that is not urgent. Walk exists outside of signifying and tries to communicate
with the society by alienating oneself from the society ceaselessly.
It just tries to sense and organize surplus senses which cannot be conceptualized
differently through the act of walk. That is to release the flow of
paralogical and unreasonable senses far across the concept through "walk-being
a path" ; "walk-being a rainbow".
2007. myung
-seop hong
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