title: Everything is Everything, single channel version

year: 2006/2007(original 8 channel installation version was made in 2006, single channel version was edited in 2007)

time: 6 minutes and 21 seconds

note:

On the occasion of the Taipei Biennale, me, my friends and my gallerist  went to Taipei city, then found mere materials in daily use which is you can easily find in most of asian city. We were collecting the moment of improvised "performance" with those objects to activate possibility of how we could see it differently.

My goal is not making people to understand my thought or massage through my work. My work might be a same kinds of event that we saw everyday, hopefully. For instance, there is a everyday event that a dish crash down on a floor in a restaurant somewhere. So I try to reach such a one-time event in my practice to reveal the reality behind.

> You could find out my other projects at vimeo and youtube

>>> http://vimeo.com/kktnk

>>>> http://www.youtube.com/user/kktnk1975

title: a haircut by 9 hairdressers at once (second attempt)

year: 2010

material: HD video, two 11” x 8.5” drawings by hairdressers

time: 28 minutes

Location: Zindågi Salon, San Francisco

Production and Commission: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

note:

This idea for this piece came to me while walking around Toronto, Canada one day. Inspired by the many hair salons I encountered I began wondering “what would happen if I invited several hairdressers, with different backgrounds, to work together to cut one person’s hair?”

I revisited this idea in San Francisco, CA. Instead of three, I invited nine hairdressers to cut one model’s hair in this piece. I let the hairdressers work without interfering with the organic nature of the process. The hairdressers begin with a consultation, addressing the limits and scope of the cut. The hairdressers then discussed how to divide the task considering the carried skill sets of each person. This unexpected atmosphere of competition came into play and exemplified the difficulty of collaboration and the various ways people react in such a situation.