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Hong-O-Bong With the aid of lip stick, shaving cream and sound Hong-O-Bong will attempt to convey the predicament of human intervention in nature. He suggests through performance he will be; 'purifying the demolished spirit of human beings as well as our polluted environment.... the message delivered to the audience; if the bird dies, then we shall die, if the bird lives, we will live, too....' Hong-O-Bong has been making performance art since the early nineties. He has taken part i n festivals in Europe and South East Asia and is a regular curator of performance art in South Korea. From a Korean Oshamanic¹ family, his early works dealt with his own shamanic initiation. This has evolved into ritualistic actions that convey concerns about our responsibility as human beings in relation to nature, and the resulting spiritual journey in a contemporary global context. He uses the artifacts and aesthetics of contemporary trash culture to evoke a sense of child-like humour at or predicament. |
