HongLee, Hyunsook, Underground Tunnel, Mago Halmi’s Pan Pipe, 2015. Single channel video, color, sound. 3 min 24 sec. Courtesy of the artist
While participating in a DMZ tunnel tour, which is seen as a lingering scar between North and South Korea as well as a symbol of regional security politics, the artist imagines Mago Halmi (Mago Grandma), the goddess of creation in Korean mythology, making a pan pipe and tapping on the tunnel. With her right foot immersed in the West Sea and left foot in the East Sea, what happens if Mago Halmi awakens the spirits of the earth by playing her tunnel instrument day and night, and what can be done to stop her?
HongLee, Hyunsook (b. 1958, Gyeonggi-do, Seoul)
HongLee, Hyunsook creates works that combine installation, performance and video, adopting an oppositional stance toward the contexts and physical parameters of a specific place. This artistic attitude is a manifestation of resistance to patriarchal society and its gaze as well as the energy that intersects with a specific environment. Through this process, the artist’s body becomes an important medium, instilling HongLee’s artworks with essential questions based on a clear structure, eliciting natural participation and solidarity, and questioning schematic lifestyles and human-centered thinking.
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