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Ujin Lee, Tie the knots, untie the knots
June 9, 2011, noon to evening
Washington Square Park, Manhattan
Please note: This is a past exhibit that is no longer installed in the park.
Description:
Lee will carry out the performance Tie the knots, untie the knots by entering the park through the Arch, carrying one end of a long train of 3337 traditional Korean wrapping cloths, folded and tied end-to-end. She will then place the end in the center of the Arch Plaza and slowly begin to coil the train into a tight but ever-widening spiral.
The performance and installation viewing will be from noon to 3 p.m., after which the public will be invited to uncoil the installation, untie the knots, and take home the individual cloths. The event will end when all the cloths have been carried away and the space is once again empty. Lee is interested in ideas of emptiness, impermanence, and the continuous flux of movement. In this project, she explores these ideas by first occupying an empty space and filling it with tangible objects, only to relinquish the material items and pass them on to others, returning the space to its empty state.
Lee will carry out the performance Tie the knots, untie the knots by entering the park through the Arch, carrying one end of a long train of 3337 traditional Korean wrapping cloths, folded and tied end-to-end. She will then place the end in the center of the Arch Plaza and slowly begin to coil the train into a tight but ever-widening spiral.
The performance and installation viewing will be from noon to 3 p.m., after which the public will be invited to uncoil the installation, untie the knots, and take home the individual cloths. The event will end when all the cloths have been carried away and the space is once again empty. Lee is interested in ideas of emptiness, impermanence, and the continuous flux of movement. In this project, she explores these ideas by first occupying an empty space and filling it with tangible objects, only to relinquish the material items and pass them on to others, returning the space to its empty state.
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