Lee Kyuchul, Video Documentation of Three-Dimensional Study, 1974. video, 29 min 55 sec. Private collection
Filmed the same year that Lee graduated from university, this video documents the process of creating a series of Buddha statues. The artist created statues on a spinning wheel, rotating it 360 degrees, then reproduced the same faces and postures, which served as a study on methods of three-dimensional models.
Lee Kyuchul, Video Documentation of Exhibitions on Space and Perception, KwanHoon Gallery, 1988; Now Gallery, 1990. video, 29 min 20 sec. Private collection
This video documents Lee’s first solo exhibition at KwanHoon Gallery in 1988 and his subsequent solo exhibition at Gallery NaMu in 1990. It captures the interactions between artworks and viewers, showing family members and other acquaintances being asked to stand very close to the artworks, peer inside Lee’s installation structures, rearrange photos arrayed on the floor like a puzzle, or physically alter the position of a light that illuminates a hanging spherical sculpture in order to explore shadows, etc.
Lee Kyuchul, Video Documentation of Workshops, 1993-1994. video, 26 min 55 sec. Lecturer: Lee Kyuchul, Participants: Students at Chung-Ang University, Department of Art. Private collection
This video documents workshops that took place when Lee was lecturing at an art university. In this workshop, students were asked to make a structure that would envelop a raw egg using limited materials. Each student came forward to present their projects one at a time, followed by a series of procedures in which they threw their respective structures from a high floor of the building and then checked to see if the eggs inside remained intact.
