Level Game 1987--1997
(tape installation and racing)
Technique & Materials: masking tape onto the floor
attach patting the soaked Korean paper and newspapers (including
color printings) onto the stone.
arrange scores of pairs of iron slippers.
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level¡¤game / level¡¤logy
1997. masking tape, iron slipper, stone, paper. 2600¡¿1050cm |
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The visitors, upon entering, are
supposed to wear slippers and shuffle around dragging the slippers,
groping the horizontal floor with their eyes and foot. In the
meanwhile, they are expected to experience the changes in what
they perceive through their eyes and thorough the steps they make.
Our body in its upright vertical posture is engaged in silent
struggle against the gravity. This is not only physical reaction
but also can be seen as deriving from its will to counter such
mental aspect as ¡®sinking¡¯ (death, dismantlement, helplessness).
In other words, the loss of such will would lead to the loss of
resiliency of life. It is said that those who are dying have no
energy left to defy the gravity and even to hold a spoon.This
means the end of animal nature, the state, which is totally enervated
to counter the pull of gravity. However, horizontality does not
always operate as a force to dismantle life. Between life and
death, it not only advocates the belligerent will of life (animal
nature) to rise up against the sky, but also appreciates the will
(plant nature) to assimilate with the earth. The will to escape
from the earth, both mentally and physically, carries another
aspect that suggests the virtue of reconciliation (revealing the
gap between desires for life and shunning death). It is because,
while water has a will to flow toward the horizontal field, trying
to see the virtue of physical property and that of vitality as
conflicting with each other often results in destruction of physical
property.
In a verticality-oriented culture, an individual develops self-centered
vision, while in a horizontality-oriented culture, an individual
develops diversified visions. This means, there is a difference
between the unified individual, or the in-dividual, who no longer
can be divided and the individual divided into five organs (not
head or heart centered). The individual who is being divided perceives
not through his eyes but through his whole body, groping the earth,
and thereby becoming an individual of divided sensitivity. The
earth, for example, becomes a place for lovers making love. And
sleeping on which we spend half of our lifetime, is also another
form signifying the affinity with horizontality, searching for
restoration of vitality.
The Mystery of Horizontality
Both life and death, of course, are just a form of returning to
horizontality. The vision, not overlooking below, neither self-centered
nor defensive, the vision which is perceiving the world outside
the fence while sitting in a room, the vision of caution, the
vision of reflection, the dreaming vision, the groping vision,
the topological vision--the vision of folk painting or landscape
painting--the vision of, so to speak, ¡®ana¡¯, the vision of ¡®meta¡¯,
the vision of speed--the vision disrupting the linear vision of
the west--
myung
-seop hong
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level¡¤game / level¡¤logy
1987. masking tape, billiard ball. 198¡¿1200cm |
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