Thesis title 'Joolution' is compound word of Joowon and solution. Through introduction and 7 essays, I wanted to show how I relate autobiographical experiences with artistic practice during the years 2018-2020.

The starting point and intention of works have been logging my daily life (current moments) and showing who I am with my work. My days, sometimes it was fun, or it might have been annoying moments. But all of those moments are something I wanted to remember or wanted to share. I may be writing my diary in the form of artwork. But it has been with a little transition in its context.

Beforehand, daily-life based work was more like driven by curiosity and with an attitude of tiny rebellion. Like, ‘What if things are alive?’, ‘What if the Led light can be moved one to another like fire does?’, ‘Couldn’t I make locker which doesn’t seem like a locker, what about twist the concept of password?’, or ‘How can I express anger in a different action because expressing anger is often considered immature when you show with an action.

The question of what kind of person I will be in the future, what kind of job I will have, what goals I want to achieve, etc., are not new to me, which I have got for a lifetime. I have become accustomed and dull to worrying about these problems. Then things which are supposed to be easy and mundane, no longer are, get me into a new stage. Things, for example, the rules for bicycles are very subdivided here, separate toilets and showers are kind of new to me, a different system for going to the hospital, no 24-hour convenience store so need to store food before the shop closes, etc. The realm of familiarity no longer existed.

I thought where I come from was not a big deal at the beginning of the study year (for extra information, I never left Korea before I came here). However, then I have to face the reality that I needed to deal with cultural differences and needed to adjust myself in a new environment. I didn’t think of these differences while producing or making artwork, but at this point, when I look back on what I have done for two years were closely related to personal and cultural background. The works contain the log of me digesting all these external inputs and are gathered as one final work. The pieces of my time and experience of about two years are compressed as one collective installation.

The underlying intention, the reason for making the work, and speculation of the subject can be checked through essays.

Graduation project

The planned graduation project for now is composed of Card wall, Paradoxical arrow, and monitor installation.