In Bye Cycle, Hyun Tak Kim set up a projector that operates only when three members of the audience pedal a bicycle together. For the artist, the bicycle and the film projector have the audience members’ and players’ constant confrontation of a roving past in common. The two objects are analogous to each other in their operational meaning. At the moment when the audience members step on the pedals, the bicycle turns into a device that summons past memories along with the projected film images, and the audience members become performers who represent the past. The work functions as a medium of time. As the title of the work Bye Cycle implies, Kim attempts to explore the meaning of the cycle of history, the Cycloid as a “rolling curve” that appears at every cycle and the theatrical cycle that repeats and represents all of these notions.
Lecture performance
2018. 10. 20. 17.00
