jaewook lee portfolio media
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Nothing But A Symphony
Date: 2014
Media: single-channel video with
sound; 4:20 min.
Dimensions: variable
Video Link:
https://vimeo.com/104112703
Nothing But A Symphony sees the
world as vibrating melodies in uni-
son. The Korean top cellist Jungran
Lee plays an invisible cello in con-
cert with a jellyfish and primary col-
ors, creating a rhythmical harmony
of Nature.
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Sense (avscularemain)
Date: 2014
A collaboration with Ali Van
Media: an audio-play with Ali Vans
voice-over (an excerpt from Andr
Bretons Mad Love), scented plants,
performance with sound; 1hour.
Dimensions: variable
Video Link:
https://vimeo.com/106740766
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All Men Are Created Equal Bullshit
Date: 2011
Media: two-channel slide projection
Video Link:
https://vimeo.com/146978234
All men are created equal Bullshitconsists of
two slide projections of myself transporting
water through mouth, from river to ground, asI write Thomas Jeffersons immortal phrase,
All men are created equal - to which I add:
bullshit. I created a condition struggle for
this action by taping myself up. The laborious
action appears absurd in light of New York
Citys skyline, emblematic of the overdevel-
oped city in contrast to the potent struggle
of the masses against neo-liberal capitalism.
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Nightmare
Date: 2011
Media: single-channel video with
sound; 2:44 min
Video Link:
https://vimeo.com/146977289
Nightmare is composed of two single-channel videos. I created a gun-projector that I altered a
beam-projector by attaching a M16 BB gun with a 100m electrical wire. The projector becomes
movable so that the performer can take it out. The performer shoots the images of bombs on smokeand moving trains at night. The reflected images are the historical bomb-drop done by U.S. army
during Korean War. The images with the memory of war soon disappear as the smoke evaporates
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Nightmare
Date: 2011
Media: single-channel video with sound; 2:44 min
Video Link:
https://vimeo.com/146977291
Nightmare is composed of two single-channel videos. I created a gun-projector that I altered a
beam-projector by attaching a M16 BB gun with a 100m electrical wire. The projector becomes
movable so that the performer can take it out. The performer shoots the images of bombs on smoke
and moving trains at night. The reflected images are the historical bomb-drop done by U.S. army
during Korean War. The images with the memory of war soon disappear as the smoke evaporates
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Melt, Flow, Breathe
Date: 2013
Media: two-channel video with
sound/sound installation, fur; 10:00
min. loop
Dimensions: approx. 150 x 150 x
60
Video Link:
https://vimeo.com/81760006
Melt, Flow, Breatheis a two-channel video in which two separate yet identical frames interact with
one another. Each frame shows snow flakes in the air. They appear and disappear in concert with
the humming sounds by a man and a woman. When the two distinct humming sounds are synced
the two frames become unified. When the two sounds are out of sync, the frames become sepa-
rated.
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Building/Unbuilding
Date: 2013
Media: various found objects, TV,
sound
Dimensions: variable
Video Link:
https://vimeo.com/69780628
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Ideasthesia
Date: 2013
Media:
a TV monitor, a cellist playing air-cello, while re-
membering Dmitri Shostakovichs music (above)
an old USSR speaker manifactured in 60s with
the wind sound (below)
Video Link:
https://vimeo.com/78319172
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Ideasthesia
Date: 2013
Media: a TV monitor, a cellist play-
ing air-cello, while remembering
Dmitri Shostakovichs music
Video Link:
https://vimeo.com/77929385
Ideathesia combines the notions of performativity and imagination it explores how to performimagination. The word ideasthesia is a phenomenon in which the activation of ideas evokes per-
ception-like experiences. The term is etymologically derived from the ancient Greek verb idea (idea)
and aisthesis (sensation), referring to sensing concepts. The project explores how we sense things
witout actual stimuli, but through imagination and association.
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Big Seoul 1971
Date: 2011
Media: c-print
Dimensions: approx. 40 x 60
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Big Seoul 1971
Date: 2011
Media: single-channel video with
sound;1:27 min.
Video Link:
https://vimeo.com/146978183
Big Seoul 1971 was inspired by a
poet Kwang Seop Kim, who wroteBig Seoul in 1971. The works
send out a message to recollect
our Seoul. Now that Seoul is turning
into a materialistic and visual place
day by day after the rapid change
from 1950 to 1960, the city has lost
a true meaning of existence.
I produced film-stickers of ordinary
sceneries with Han River as thecenter. A beautiful night view and
wealthiness of the present city proj-
ect memories and history of Seoul.
Images of ladies doing laundry with
laundry bats, a water carrier with
water pitcher, children skating and
sleighing on a surface of frozen riv-
er, and old sceneries of Han Riv-
er are pinned on a highway road.
These two different images wandervoidly between the past and the
present and they flutter lightly inside
our memories like a thin transparent
film.
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Window Project
Date: 2005 - 2011
Media: c-print, translucent film on windows, site-spe-
cific installation (below)
the recycled film with a live plant (right)
Video Link:
https://vimeo.com/89045616
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Window Project
Date: 2005 - 2011
Media: c-prints, translucent film on
windows, the recycled film from
the window installation
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Under Construction
Date: 2014
Media: c-prints
Dimensions: 35 x 24 each
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Beautiful
Date: 2008
Media: c-prints, translucent film on
windows, the recycled film from the
window
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Beautiful
Date: 2008
Media: digital c-print
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Perfect Lovers
Date: 2012
Media: a clock, a mirror (abovr)
two-channel video; 3:50 min. (below)
Video Link:
https://vimeo.com/146979741
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You Think Yourself in Me and I Am Your Consciousness
Date: 2012
Media: single-channel video; 1:51 min.
Video Link: https://vimeo.com/69781124
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Less is Known on Earth
Date: 2015
Media: blue and red glow lights,
clay, objects made out of science
books, geometric-shaped objects,
rulers, scented plants, natural ob-
jects, performance; 2 hours.
Dimensions: 442 x 300 x 192
Video Link:
https://vimeo.com/123510391
Less is Known on Earthis an inter-
disciplinary installation project that
explores the relationship between
the Earth itself and the way that
our mind projects meanings onto
it. The project places our notions
of objects into question, revealingtheir irreducible qualities beyond
our comprehension. The exhibition
presents man-made objects, nat-
ural objects, scientific experiments,
and historical art works that reflect
things on Earth. For the project, I
research how disciplines join to-
gether in order to generate a flow
of meanings through a network of
connections. This flow creates in-tersections between what has been
considered the traditional sphere
of art and what lies outside that
boundary.
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