Biography
I create simple-structured machines by making impromptu combinations of everyday items and motors.
The reason why I choose to use everyday items is because their form and purpose are inseparably related with each other. I am interested in redefining them as components of machines and observing how the relationship between a thing and its meaning is transformed once its original “end and means (i.e. form, design)” are separated and given different perspectives.
Although such machines are simple, they display complex, unexpected movements. They move clumsily as if they are going through a conflict in reconciling different purposes of its each component. As if they are creatures with own will. For me, machines are “things that are beyond control”.
“Things beyond control” has been one of the important themes for my work. I have created “a system that lets others mediate” my works. For instance, I exhibited machines that the audience made by interpreting my instructions. Such a process creates a distance between the artist and his work and the work consequently leaves his control.
“What is beyond control” is the world itself. Producing works is a way to communicate with every phenomena of the world that we cannot place under our control.
