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Culture Trip
Complexity,HiddenSide
ofHumanNetwork
Whatisarelationship?
ByLeeDong-eun
ReporterofCultureSection
P
eople always build relationships with other people. A relationship can be with friends, loved ones, or co-workers. This
is because people are social animals by nature, and they live by communicating and cooperating with other people.
Languagesandbehaviorsarereflectedbythoughts,andeachthoughtbecomesadifferentformofrelationship.Sohowcan
theserelationshipsbedefined?AnswerscanbefoundfromtheAlephProjectexhibitionattheNationalMuseumofModernand
ContemporaryArt(MMCA)inSogyeok-dong,Jongno-gu,thecenterofSeoul,Korea.
TheAlephProjectExhibition
EpiphyteChamber,PhilipBeesley
Uponenteringexhibition7,visitorscanseecomplexstemsandlineshangingfromtheceiling
andtheyallemitexoticlights.Itislikeafishingnet,orlikesomebizarrecreature.Whenthe
artwork is closely examined, those stems and lines from the ceiling each move to match the
spectators’ movements in addition to giving off some exotic lights and sounds. The artwork
also produces some exotic smells. The smells come from chemicals, such as fragrant oils,
insidetheartwork.Thewholecreationislikealivingcreature,interactingwiththespectators.
Through its lights, chemical smells and ability to match spectators' movements, the artwork
seemstoexchangesignalsandmovementswiththeviewers.Also,itabsorbsatmosphereand
moisture so that it undergoes a sort of metabolism like a living creature. In other words, this
artwork has been combined with digital elements to simulate a living creature's metabolism.
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Spectatorscanactuallycommunicatewiththismovingartworkthroughactiveinteraction.
TheElaboratorium,ScaleFreeNetwork
The exhibition is like a small workroom or a laboratory. There are many microscopes in
the laboratory. Also at this exhibition, people can actively become involved in the artwork.
How? They look through the microscopes and each microscope has a different image in
it. Each microscope has different elements to look at and people should look through the
microscope to see the real aspect of the artwork. The elements are something like a grain of
sand, dust, or even a stamp. By seeing the small elements in our environment, people can
realizetheirbeauty.Throughthisexhibition,visitorscanrethinktheircriteriaofrealbeauty.
Whenpeoplelookthroughthemicroscope,theycaninteractwiththeartworkinanotherway.
The exotic screen behind the microscope sight is another key point of the exhibition. When
peoplelookthroughthemicroscope,theirshadowsarereflectedonthescreen,creatinganew
imageintheexhibition.Visitorscanalsofindalotofcirclesinsidetheexhibition.Thecircles
give the message to spectators that the circles are ones that can be found everywhere in our
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environmentandcanalwaysbeextendedorcontractedwithintheworld.
www.theargus.org
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