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Significance of Mt.Gwanak and the Tiger

 

Lee Seung-hoon / Cyart Research Institute

 

 

Artist Byung-su Lee, who is presenting a rather peculiar theme called the ¡°Gwanak Mountain Tiger Project¡±, has worked mainly with installation works using media such as photography and video. Some examples of his previous works were: a project in which the artist documented the process of searching for locations related to the word "hope" on a navigation device and going there on a bicycle, and one where he documented his emotional changes as he created an ¡°episode¡± assuming that the road-side trees he encountered were his lovers, thereby bringing in the seemingly unrealistic events into the realm of his experience in real space.

 

In this exhibition Lee creates a personal research institute to track tigers, and shows the process of investigating whether tigers exist in Mt.Gwanak. It is difficult to believe that there could be tigers living in Mt.Gwankak, which is surrounded by layers and layers of urban roads in Seoul, in spite of the thick forest. Nevertheless, Lee creates such impossible things into an empirical event and presents the documentations in an exhibition.

 

The series of such works will no doubt cause various questions, from those about the work method, such as ¡°can documentation itself become fine art?,¡± or those about the content, such as ¡°what is the intent of the artist to actualize unrealistic imaginations?¡± That is because according to common sense a tree cannot be a lovable human, destinations marked with the word hope do not really exist, and it seems meaningless to go on a search for the extinct tiger (as far as we know) in urban space. And on the other hand, we must examine what the significance is of art as documentation, and not documentation of art.

 

The way the artist brings unrealistic imagination into reality, seriously carries out the project and documents it as an event is confusing to the extent of reminding us of a Don Quixote-like irony. Nevertheless, it is clear that the reckless acts of making personal and trivial experiences into issues, mobilizing peculiar imagination to make seemingly impossible dreams into visible reality, and making documentations of such events enable us to re-examine the parts we assumed to be unrealistic and think about them from a different perspective.

 

It is hard to acknowledge the idea that there are tigers living in Mt.Gwanak, as stated by the tiger researchers featured in Lee¡¯s video work. Since tigers are said to be able to travel 20km in a day and a single tiger can cover a territory of at least 400§´, even if 1 or 2 individual tigers were discovered by chance, it would be meaningless to search for tigers in Mt. Gwanak based on the academic opinions that consider wild tigers as extinct.

 

Still, what we can read in the acts of the artist, who documents his process of searching for tigers, is that perhaps he is not looking for tigers at all. We come to reach the thought that he could be searching for everything today¡¯s urbanites have considered impossible in spite of their hope that such things might exist. The artist boldly sets out on a hunt for such things and visualizes them in the form of documentation.

 

The artist seems to be opposing the realms that have stopped thinking and ousted the events in one¡¯s imagination or dream, and demanding a change in perception. Furthermore, through the method of making a documentation of the questioning, the artist intends to show his ideas not through representation of objects, but the representation of  events, and presents art work in the dimension of non-material visual information, and not materialized art work made according to the concept of traditional art.

 

Such attitude of the artist seems to be because the realm he is trying to show is a non-material system, which cannot be fixed with material in a certain time or space, such as imagination, faith and hope, and also because it is a system based on an aspect of time that can only be revealed through the performance process within the flow of time. By enabling the people of this era, who believe only the reality consisting of material that can be seen based on the foundation of reason or rationality, to participate in the areas they lack, and by making such events into part of the reality, the artist is bringing the unrealistic realm face-to-face with the category called reality.

 

Thus, by unfolding the thoughts of his imagination as an event, and translating this into his own artistic language, the artist presents an opportunity for spectators to view not simple events of daily life, but the documentations of a certain narrative, from above the horizon of art. I believe it is necessary for us to note Lee¡¯s peculiar work, which expands daily events to the domain of aesthetic thought through the method of enabling perception from a different angle and new awakening of the senses.