page_title: Kyunghwa Lee
section_title: Malleable Bodies: Flusser, Foucault, Plasticity, and the Corset
hierarchical_section_title: Kyunghwa Lee / Works / Malleable Bodies: Flusser, Foucault, Plasticity, and the Corset
caption_attribution_description: English: Malleable Bodies Corset Body
context_page_description: KyungHwa Lee is a visual artist and new media artist exploring the experimental nature of contemporary art from the perspectives of architecture, fashion, and philosophy.
context_section_description: "Malleable Bodies: Flusser, Foucault, Plasticity, and the Corset", exhibited at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Seoul, South Korea) in Seoul in 2015, is a work of installation performance art exploring the nature and structure of the human body as architectural space within the context of technological, aesthetic, and theoretical approaches. The audience experiences the creation of the ideal body by walking through a huge "black box" space, installed as an interlocking transitional space, in a 3D printed corset temporarily attached to each individual's body. A subsequent performance by six performers, representing actualization of the ideal body, while simultaneous projection on canvas captures the historical progression of representation, conveys a "new space" combining the real world and the virtual world. The space where the real world and virtual world co-exist and where the unseen reality becomes presented reality is demonstrated. The audience becomes part of the performance art and also function as the subjects driving the intention of the artist. At the end of the performance, the audible, disembodied questions "Who are you?" and "Where are you?" are projected. These common questions resonate freshly in this moment. The performance leads the audience to contemplate identity contextualized by the body as architectural and malleable.
  
  The installation proposes the human body as a vessel subject to design and reconfiguration. The performers embody the dimensionality of conceptualized reality. However, the imaged body is re-created through the processes of digital information and 3D printing. This coalescence of actualized and imagined reality is made manifest  in contemporary experience.
caption: Malleable Bodies Corset Body
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