A Korean Artist Plays God
First found via London Korea Links, which has a lot of information about Korean artists and exhibitions there, and I recommend checking it out if you find this and similar recent posts of mine interesting. And not just for those of you in London: many of the artists and performers mentioned are merely visiting, and are actually based in Korea.
All of the videos in today’s post are by unfortunately named artist June Bum Park, who seems to have been making similar works of people and things being manipulated by giant hands since at least 2000 or so:
To my own credit though, that was a much longer and better quality version of “I Parking” than the original available on YouTube. I also managed to find one of “II Building” below too, and even of a short, but also high quality version of “III Crossing” below that. Although they’re obviously a series, this post may well be the first and only site on the internet to have all three in the same place!
Finding and embedding all those took well over an hour and a half by the way…as a bare minimum, I expect a round of applause for my efforts.
Update: In hindsight, five minutes was much too long for the first, as it gets a bit repetitive. For that reason I much prefer the second, but all three are still in serious need of some accompanying music. Also, sorry if it’s just this blog, but this is the first time I’ve used googlevideos - is it normal to be unable to watch them full screen?
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Well done for tracking them all down!
Philip
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Oh no, thank you for finding and posting the original video in the first place. I still have a lot of things to talk about that I’ve found on your site, and wouldn’t have known where to begin looking for them without it!
Those are really neat.