will toward horizontality; level scape/level mind ¢º de¡¤veloping the level/casting the level ¢º level game          page


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.

 
level¡¤game / level¡¤logy
1997. masking tape, iron slipper, stone, paper. 2600¡¿1050cm
 
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
level¡¤game / level¡¤logy
1987. masking tape, billiard ball. 198¡¿1200cm
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level¡¤game / level¡¤logy
1997
masking tape, iron slipper, stone, paper
2600¡¿1050cm
de¡¤veloping ; tactile level
1985
brass sticks, brass plate, wooden box
60¡¿60¡¿60cm

 

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