YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES
This may be a bit too obvious a screen grab, but I’ve always dug YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES’ work. I first saw it at a show at the New Museum last year that sort of blew me away and was underwhelming at the same time.
YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES (YHCHI) is a two-artist collective based in Seoul, South Korea. Using Flash animation techniques, they create fast-moving, text-based artworks that are synchronized with original scores. Using a seemingly simple format—texts on monochromatic backgrounds—YHCHI weaves complex and evocative narratives. Invoking the genre of film noir, and the hard-boiled literary styles of Raymond Chandler and Phillip K. Dick, YHCHI’s imaginative, witty and often politically pointed narratives offer layered and compelling stories in which identities are assumed and discarded, and ideologies of all persuasions are held up and questioned.
cf. The New Museum
Speaking of the New Museum, Artlog is running another “Collect LES event” on 18 April and we are pumped to be working with the New Museum and more than a dozen great Lower East Side galleries. Last year’s event drew more than 1500 folks. More info about Collect LES soon – we are going to start promoting in earnest next week. We are also probably launching Arlo next week. Next week is shaping up to be quite busy.
I also really, really like the idea of a ‘two-artist collective.’
