Performance Artist . Painter . Performance Art Academy of Founder . Art Director
STATEMENT
The artist's perspective on society is existential. He went through 518 Gwangju Democracy movement (many people died by their own soldiers) and 1980 military coup. So his school days were under the military dictatorship. Naturally he had been thinking about personal freedom and democracy. After then, he started to read about Taoism, Buddhism, psychology, sociology, philosophy, and history. His first priority was philosophy but he entered art department and began painting and performance Art.
His sight is multiple and dialectical. And he recognizes each value in life itself. He take himself as an balanced principal agent moving around the society. Therefore his role is to creat humanistic discourses by broaden artistic expressions. Performance art is good way to do so. Because there are various way to do it - exhibition, presentation, festival, planning, achive, writing - and make things more plexible in this 'solid' physical world by stopping solidifying thinking. He is keep asking about humanity, human of artistic flexibility, naturality and civilization. His art method of communication is fun and creating space of think
1. Creation and presentation His first performance art work as an individual was 'memory loading; babel'(2009). Next was 'physical power plant; the paper'(2010), and the third was ‘table domino'(2010) as am art play with audiences. Now he's presenting dynamically 'tear of politics', the fourth work with the method of combination of digital and analog. Since 2009, he is working concept performance art as a exploration of new possibility of expression. He performed in US, Canada, German, Poland, China, Macau, Hong Kong, Philippine, Bangladesh, Italy , Greece, Singapore, Brazil , etc world tour in 26 nations.
2. Performance Academy In 2006 he realized something and developed performance academy in his name. (2012) It was carried on 5 weeks in Gwangju(2012), 9 weeks in Seoul(2013), 5 weeks in Dhaka(Bangladesh 2013). 7 weeks in Wanju (korea . 2016) In this project, it extended its conditions to maximize The inner artistic expression of individuals. The participants presented their self and looked into their selves with healing.
INFORMATION
Graduation Jeonnam University .College of Fine Arts .Major of Western Painting Art . Gwangju . South KOREA
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