OH MY GOD : The Burning Couple
Film, costume, installation art, silk screen print - hand illustration, fabric printing with embedded LEDs, 3D printing. Youngeun Museum / Seoul Culture Station 284, Korea (2014).
Artwork : The Bite Back Movement (Alexander Augustus / Seung youn Lee).
We designed a product range for Korean Christians living in the year 2100 AD. We worked with contemporary dancers, actors and traditional singers to use these products, bringing our stories to life in theatres and galleries across Korea.
The work overall is a comment on socio-religious relations in Korea in the present day.
Sister project to: The Church of Chonsa
Fabric and costume
Exhibition
The Journey of God - Screen prints
The urban landscape of Seoul inspired this project. On my arrival in Korea I was immediately struck by the colossal neon red crosses which are spread across the whole landscape of Korea. The futuristic neon glow, mixed with the ancient feeling of the cross inspired the imagination and made us begin to question: how did Christianity travel to Asia, and how will Christianity transform as it continues to travel into the future?
This monumentally scaled infographic tells a story through space and time with pattern and poses a question: how will the visual patterns of Christianity change as the social patterns are adopted by different cultures. 40 screen prints hang in a grid of 5x8. Each screen print is 23 x 33 inches, a world map which plots the movement of Christianity through time and space, beginning with the death of Jesus and progressing through history. The visual style references cartography, but also traditional Korean landscape painting, with the contemporary neon red crosses plotting points like a diagram. Each cross on the map has been hand printed with traditional Korean red ink.