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Kyunghwa Lee
KyungHwa Lee () is a Visual arts, visual art and New media art, new media artist, architect, director, and writer exploring the experimental nature of contemporary art from the perspectives of architecture, fashion, and philosophy. She serves as the International Director of the Nam June Paik Cultural Foundation and a columnist for The Korea Times and was formerly the International Director at the Korean Society of Art Theory. Early life and career Lee was born in Seoul, South Korea. She lived in Seoul and Japan during her early life. Influenced by eastern Asian traditional cultures, she began to incorporate a deep interest in combining food, clothing and shelter, which are basic necessities of life, to the arts. She became interested in the philosophical origin of visual representation and began to study architecture. She received her Master of Architecture degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Her work reflects the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Performance Art
Performance art is an artwork or art exhibition created through actions executed by the artist or other participants. It may be witnessed live or through documentation, spontaneously developed or written, and is traditionally presented to a public in a fine art context in an interdisciplinary mode. Also known as ''artistic action'', it has been developed through the years as a genre of its own in which art is presented live. It had an important and fundamental role in 20th century avant-garde art. It involves four basic elements: time, space, body, and presence of the artist, and the relation between the creator and the public. The actions, generally developed in art galleries and museums, can take place in the street, any kind of setting or space and during any time period. Its goal is to generate a reaction, sometimes with the support of improvisation and a sense of aesthetics. The themes are commonly linked to life experiences of the artist themselves, or the need of denunci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
