This artwork uses a camera and voice instead of hands to touch a rock carving of a seated Buddha, which is located 108 steep stairs above the main hall of Seunggasa Temple on Bukhansan Mountain in Seoul. This imagined contact with the Buddha inscribed on a large rock—that is, an unreachable being—yields a certain humor intrinsic to groping the solemn body of Buddha with words. Furthermore, such an action invites questions about the reproduction of the senses, the differences between performance and practice, and art as an event that reveals the truth.
