A Distant View IV 2017, United Visual Artists. Laser cut
Hojun Song - Convener Elliot Woods - Convener Dirk Fleischmann - Moderator + Convener
Mina Hyeon 현민아 - Co-host Sunny Park 박소선 - Co-host Youngeun Yu 유영은 - Co-host
Mire Lee - Invited Speaker Sey Min - Invited Speaker Vakki Park - Invited Speaker (unconfirmed) SunJeong Hwang - Invited Speaker Dguru Sin - Invited Speaker (unconfirmed) Mimi Son 손미미 - Invited Speaker
Jewyo Rhii 이주요 - Invited Speaker
Hans Nieswandt - Welcome lounge music + Invited Speaker
Sam Seungho Park 박승호 - 꼽사리(confirmed)
https://www.uva.co.uk/features/a-distant-view-iv
In the A Distant View reliefs the viewer encounters a visceral, seemingly abstract composition. Upon closer inspection, identifiable patterns emerge, reminiscent of the moon’s surface. Responding to images transmitted to earth during the Lunar Orbiter missions of 1966-67 and constructed with the later laser scans (a series of binary data codes) used to shape an understanding of the moon’s topology, the works re-appropriate the visuals aids that constituted the first representations of the moon seen by the public.
Sculpted into this three-dimensional format, the reliefs reimagine the this hermeneutic experience, making tangible the collective memory of an alternate universe. However this process also reveals what it lost, through the unpopulated ‘gaps’ between scans and within the composition, where the data begins to fall away. Illuminated from the upper ridge, shadows appear to articulate these spaces, morphing and altering depending on the viewer’s standpoint. It is through this experience of the work, as both a physical object and a recollection of memory, that the pieces resonate and bring into question our own ability to reason and comprehend.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallen_Astronaut
Fallen Astronaut is a 3.5-inch (8.9 cm) aluminum sculpture created by Paul Van Hoeydonck. Astronaut statue and a name plaque on the surface of the Moon. Astronaut David Scott secretly placed the Fallen Astronaut statue on the Moon during the Apollo 15 mission on August 1, 1971, along with a plaque bearing the names of eight American astronauts and six Soviet cosmonauts who had died in service.