Un(Sealed) Memories by Kyoung Hee Lee Status message

• LocationSouth East, Oxford, City Centre
• Type
• Salary
• Artforminterdisciplinary arts, visual arts
• ContactGena Johns gena@thejamfactoryoxford.com

Description

Venue: The Jam Factory

Date(s): Thursday, 14 July 2016 to Tuesday, 9 August 2016

Timing: 9am-10pm

Cost: FREE

Technology Eats Nostalgic or Vice Versa: Remembering to Forget, Forgetting to Remember

Technology evokes technology to become anachronistic and obsolete. Thus, technology is slated for being obsolete. Landscapes, which are made and changed by technology are clearly separated from nostalgia but may still become nostalgia at some point in the future. Nonetheless, no matter how much technology attempts to create new landscapes to separate the present from the past, nostalgia waits patiently in the crevices, waiting to be unearthed.

My works are an attempt to show technological objects without purposiveness. When we do not exactly know the true purpose of objects, they come to us as aesthetic or mysterious objects that lack any clear purpose. Therefore, objects lose their respective existential purposes deeply embedded in our conventional bias towards them to become ‘another being’ in the abstract place of ‘something’; the value of objects is degraded and becomes equal in the space. For this, I have been reconsidering these objects with a sort of hypothesis that if they were discovered someday in the future and if we do not know what they are, these objects would need to be reconsidered or might be thought of as another being. Therefore, my works need to be considered as a different, perhaps new, archeological form, and the intention is for them to be viewed as a type of an excavated or discovered object in the hypothesis.

Contact Details: 

The Jam Factory Restaurant and Bar
Hollybush Row,
Oxford, OX1 1HU

01865 244613

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Un(Sealed) Memories by Kyoung Hee Lee Status message