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Thursday, February 24, 2011

New Blog with a New Look!

Hello everyone,

I now have moved my blog over to http://www.gyunhurblog.com/!
A New Blog with A New Look!
Feel free to stop by and say hi.

This blog will be up for now as archives.

Thanks,
G.

Saturday, February 19, 2011

Flower Cutting DONE!

First batch of colors in kimchi jars
Our clean basement! We dusted it off!!!
So we are officially DONE with flower cutting!
It has been a long journey... spending countless hours in the basement since beginning of December, we spent about three months preparing flower materials for the Lenox project - Spring Hiatus. 
It is going to be exciting to see all of prepared shredded flowers laid on the floor in the middle of Lenox Mall. My list of possible volunteers is growing... and it is happening in a week!

Proper Medium did a beautiful job capturing the process of flower cutting. You will get a good sense of what took place in the basement, cutting flowers. Click here --> http://www.fluxprojects.org/films/007.html

I will be posting daily updates when the project starts, so stay in tune!


- G.

Thursday, February 17, 2011

Lenox Site Visit with Flux

 
Lenox Mall site for the installation (taken from above)

So Anne (Flux Projects executive director), Lloyd (Get This! Gallery), my parents, and I did our last Lenox site visit a few days ago.

This idea of doing the installation at Lenox started about a few months ago with Flux, and it is finally happening! It has been an amazing experience for me to work with Flux to actualize this project on an ambitious scale - 16 ft by 30 ft. For more information on the project Spring Hiatus and Flux, go to http://www.fluxprojects.org/hur/index.html. 



We are almost done with flower cutting (it's been almost three months since we started cutting), and incredibly thrilled to start the installation at Lenox Square Mall. The location is quite amazing. Right between the Macy's entrance and Sephora, it also got the second floor where you can have an aerial view of the installation. Oh fantastic!

For first time, the installation process will be viewed in public. As people are engaging in the process of installation, I hope that there will be curious dialogues and somewhat empathetic silence. We are planning to start the installation on March 1st and finish on March 12. 

We are still looking for some volunteers for installation process as well as docents, so please let me know if you are interested. I will post more details soon!


- G.

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Paradoxical Intention (Scott Belville's works at MOCA GA)


Tonight, I went to the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia for Scott Belville's artist talk. A great teacher with knowledge, openness, and kindness, he was my former professor at University of Georgia (Lamar Dodd).  I was excited to catch up with my professor, but also delighted to see his body of works that was piling up in his small studio in Athens, Georgia.

He teaches most of his time in Cortona, Italy for Lamar Dodd's Italy Study Abroad Program. His time spent in Italy indeed reflects on his sensibility in techniques and how he sets up the narratives. Scott talked about how he is interested in developing characters and setting them in places as if he is writing a story. Putting 'specific-ness' aside in his work, Scott leaves a room for viewers to navigate in and out of his narratives.


P a r a d o x i c a l   I n t e n t i o n

While trying to convey beauty, one finds himself exuding a sense of sorrow in his work. Then again, one may find himself in the midst of sorrowful images during his happiest time. (paraphrased) 
- Scott Belville


Please go to see this show Trust at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia.
You will be able to encounter something that you can only exude as an artist with many years of wrestle and love (oh this sounds too sentimental, but really).

- G.

Thursday, February 10, 2011

!!!


Tulip Field

Tulip Field

Jim Lambie

Jim Lambie
Gene Davis

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Gene Davis street painting
Sol LeWitt

Sol LeWitt

Ah! They are inspirational -

Thanks, Hope H. and Mark L.

-G.

Monday, February 7, 2011

Invitation to Another Cutting Evening


Another (and the last) evening of cutting flowers tomorrow at 6PM! Dinner will be provided, and it would be lovely to have you. It will be a unique time for you to experience my process of cutting flowers and also a great time with a great group of people. E-mail me at gyunhur@gmail.com if you're interested. I'll e-mail you with details for the evening.

Thanks!

Last night, my family watched the Super Bowl. None of us know much about football, but we watched it while eating Korean-style sweet and sour fried chicken (양념통닭). Then my parents went down to basement to cut more flowers and I fell asleep as Packers claimed their championship. -_-;; Koreans' real love for sports is in soccer. Check out this video! 
http://www.spike.com/video/2002-korean-soccer/2739356

Korean-style sweet and sour fried chicken (양념통닭)




Thursday, February 3, 2011

School after School

Art School: (Propositions for the 21st Century)

I was sitting in the meeting room at the Fulton County Library in Johns Creek for the Fulton County Arts and Culture Public Art Seminar. As looking at powerpoint presentations by its staff, I suddenly felt as if I was in school again . . . it's painful for me to trace back my MFA schooling, yet I remembered a specific reading from one of my first theory classes regarding 'art institution' and what 'schooling' means . By constantly drawing yourself near people's inspiring presence, critical discussions, and new endeavours, you can indeed find yourself in a mode of self-schooling.


Before I go further, I would like to encourage you to apply for Fulton County Arts Registry. Go to http://www.fultonarts.org/forms-and-applications for application (they're in a process of updating the website). If you become a part of its registry, you automatically become a part of pool to be nominated for the Fulton County's public art opportunities. In upcoming years, they are expecting 15 projects with a budget of between $20,000 and $140,000 each. They also have a mentorship program to assist selected artists for public projects. Deadline March 11, 2011 and October 14, 2011.

untitled (body object series) #5-bushhead, 1984/1993, Ann Hamilton
I got home and saw my newly purchased book, Art School: (Propositions for the 21st Century). I am so very excited about reading this book, to re-visit what art schooling meant to me, and how other artists are taking steps to move forward from their art schooling experiences. One of my art heroes, Ann Hamilton, answers to a question in this book:
What matters most in art making for you? Did art school have anything to do with you coming to understand this?
What matters most to me is paying attention. Art is the result of multiple acts of attention, and I hope that art making cultivates forms of listening. It seems to me that making allows one to create a situation to find what one needs to do in the world. It's a way to short-circuit your self-consciousness. I wait by keeping busy, by not worrying too much about whether a project is "good" or "successful." In school I was perhaps too concerned about this, but I slowly began to realize how making something is very different from thinking about it. If you sit around and wait for an interesting idea, you will wait for a very long time. I now believe that making is a form of thinking; experiences are a set of questions that propel me forward. They may be small questions, but they offer nourishment for the long term.

After flipping through a few pages of this book, I ran down to the basement and pulled out some of my early graduate school reading materials. I traced some of my favorite readings with underlines, highlights, and notes on... and was stunned to find how impactful those readings were in my developing body of work. I noted on words like 'stratum : a layer of material, naturally or artificially formed, often one of a number of parallel layers one upon another' and 'iteration : act of repeating.' These words were prophetic of my works to come. I also obsessively underlined and wrote notes on the article Wolfgang Laib: Transcendent Offerings. Here is a quote that is so clear in Wolfgang Laib's influence on my work:
The perishable and ephemeral materials Laib emplys indicate his comfort with impermanence; he cultivates the moment. The labor that goes into Laib's art is a form of meditation, its own reward; he is content to spend countless hours collecting pollen (it can take months to fill a few jars) and then shaping it into tiny cone-shaped hills for a piece . . . that a single sneeze could blow away. Requiring a form of labor that would be impossibly tedious to most of us, Laib's work with pollen, in particular, embodies an intrinsic awareness that it will exist only as long as its creator is available to make it happen.
 
 Ah, love going back to these thoughts and notes!


Today, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center announced Louis Corrigan as a winner for Nexus Award 2011. Being able to work with someone like Louis Corrigan (a founder of Flux Projects and Possible Futures), I consider, is another schooling for me after school. Witnessing someone with a vision to generously and courageously support the art community has been eye-opening and uplifting. I am now challenged to think about patronage, artistic vision, and communal relationships as an artist. To read more about the award and Louis Corrigan, go to http://www.burnaway.org/2011/02/corrigan-wins-nexus-award/.


Cheers,
G.

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

When people gather for a revolution -

photo courtesy of New York Times



I am from a generation that hasn't experienced such a tension and urgency to take actions for a cause. R e v o l u t i o n ? What does that even really mean?

I am listening to the radio and reading articles about Egypt turning upside and down for a revolution. There is a bit of frustration in me, not being able to relate, understand, and glimpse what it means to be in their state . . .  I tried to imagine a degree of pain, yet a terribly thrilling sensation of being in the midst of such an event.

Is it too self-observed or idealistic for me to post these pictures simply because I thought these people were creating incredible landscapes?


- G.

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Cutting Evening Photos





So Flux Projects offered to coordinate a flower cutting evening!   
And we did it.

With 6 paper cutters, 2 scissors, and a bag of green flowers, we went out to cut. It was quite fun for me to share this experience of shredding and to chat and eat together. Thank you for those who came out to help: Louis C., Anne D., Stephanie D., Jane G., Leslie J., , Seana R., Paris, and Laurie W.. . .  You were wonderful.

We are going to hold another cutting evening next Tuesday at 6PM. If you are interested in helping, e-mail me at gyunhur@gmail.com for more information.


Thank you!

- G.