INTENTIONAL INCIDENT
“I want to let my works be autonomous so they can take on a soul of their own.”
“I intentionally poured and blew the paint to create landscapes. I wanted to make them 'present' in my paintings, rather than to be 'repres ented'.”
LEE Hyunbae, 2015
All my works are about finding aesthetics from unexpected traces that I specially produced.
I normally make each background with lots of turpentine or watery Korean traditional ink. The runny paint flows onto the canvas and leaves certain traces naturally. I use a hair dryer to blow and dry the background. The traces without any brush-stroke have new shapes through the intentional control, they become something that can give other associations and inspirations. They exist on their own positions both neither submerging, nor emerging on the canvas. This shows my own self which is floating neither submerging nor emerging and un-mixable between Eastern and Western self.
Although there is no law or rule of art making in this contemporary art scene, I believe in that every artwork has its own answer. Even If there is no ‘answer’, there will be ‘the best’ at least. The accidental effect of background image provides me the great hint to solve the question which is called an art work.
The residency in New Zealand and Whitireia were perfect circumstances that I could completely focus on my work. Unfamiliar volcanic geography, clear sea, the very strong contrast of the sun light of winter and long visible distance with the clean air, they opened new perspective to me.
I could grope for a new direction of my work with these stimulation from the new environment, and develop my ideas through positive conversations with many people.
I wish the ideas can be sympathized by the two shows in Korea and New Zealand.
people are the most precious things one can encounter
everywhere being is dancing
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A changing installation with companions encountered between Korea and Aotearoa (and possibly you, dear reader) including:
Soeine Bac and 전보형, collaborative performances;
Kah Bee Chow, zombie credit card sample test, (aluminium, copper welds);
Annie Bradley, white tights;
Nick Elitzik, morning training routine (after six weeks, a path formed on the grass);
Maria Lepistö, sound recordings and good spirits;
Morgan Wong, video documentation and supportive conversations;
and You! (Yes you can touch the things and change them)
Invent the makeshift card game and see the rest of the nomadic toolkit, please talk to Xin by the entrance.
Dear future friends and companions,
I've been rambling around Seoul since late September, getting surprised by everyday resourcefulness, pondering the shapes of the riverbanks, picking up junk from the side of the road, sometimes playing with the nomadic toolkit (http://nomadic.xin-cheng.info/).
Lately I've been dancing: with the wonderful folks at Sangbang(쌍방) and Yogiga(요기가), on the green inner circle line, with the clouds over Haneul Park... Will you join me for an adventure?
with open arms,
Xin
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