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Date Posted: 14:19:44 06/06/02 Thu
Author: Tweety
Subject: Artist will lick frosting from floor

Omaha World-Herald Online Edition
Published Thursday May 16, 2002

Artist will lick frosting from floor
BY ASHLEY HASSEBROEK
WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER

Yellow cake icing has coated the 2,500-square-foot floor of Gallery II at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts since the beginning of April. Saturday at 7 p.m., as part of an installation performance titled "on-m," Korean-born artist Hoon Lee will lick it.

He may lick all the way through the frosting to the floor's surface in some spots. In other sections of the floor where there is a thicker, harder layer of frosting, he might not be able to soften the surface with his tongue.

That's OK, though, because the point of the performance is not to clean up the frosting.

Lee's motive is to provoke viewers to react to the performance.

"I want people to look at the icing and feel a certain way, whether they know what it is or not," Lee said. "One of the easiest ways to understand is by looking or feeling or touching."

Korean-born artist Hoon Lee

Lee, who holds a master of fine arts degree in ceramic art from New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, has become known for performance-based installations that attempt to explore personal and social issues of gender, race and class.

In this particular installation, Lee said, he is exploring the meaning of the color yellow and the legitimacy of the color as a cultural reference.

While Lee is licking the yellow icing, he will wear a white straitjacket he created for the performance. A surveillance camera will be sewn to the front of the jacket and project onto a screen in the gallery. Four bottles of water will be available to Lee during the course of the licking.

Lee said it is difficult to tell how long the performance will last. It could go for only 10 minutes, but it could also go for 10 hours, depending on where the performance leads him.

The gallery will be open to viewers until 10 p.m.

http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_np=0&u_pg=526&u_sid=394552

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Re: Artist will lick frosting from floor -- YO, 17:53:50 06/06/02 Thu
- Is that what caused it. -- Cari, 20:06:43 06/06/02 Thu
Geez, and people say I have too much time on my hands! (NT) -- Cari, 20:07:55 06/06/02 Thu