Heaven Baek: Platforms of Reality (Bilingual edition)

Name: Heaven Baek: Platforms of Reality (Bilingual edition)
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SKU: 9783775756495
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Platforms of Reality examines the oeuvre of a multi-layered analysis and interpretation of Heaven Baek's work, which resonates through the composition of people and society in both reality and on stage. The main content of the book ranges from the artist's early works to her recent... Read More

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Heaven Baek: Platforms of Reality (Bilingual edition)

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Description

Platforms of Reality examines the oeuvre of a multi-layered analysis and interpretation of Heaven Baek's work, which resonates through the composition of people and society in both reality and on stage. The main content of the book ranges from the artist's early works to her recent practice, where she questions the reality of video timelines and instant realities with a strong sense of immediacy, collective memories, and staged realities. Through these well-scripted performances, she represents the flood of real information that has somehow lost its purpose and meaning.

The book is divided into four different chapters, each exploring a different sense of reality. The "platform" is used both as a stage or as a place where trains leave from different tracks with different destinations, crossing paths while encountering each other continuously. These platforms may be imagined as stages for her work, bringing together her artistic approaches where Baek attempts to permeate social collectives with her research and artistic methodologies—from drawing to video to installation.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9783775756495

Publisher: Hatje Cantz

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 February 2024

Country: Germany

Imprint: Hatje Cantz

Illustration: 270 Illustrations, color

Contributors:

Text by Beatrix Ruf
Text by Francis McKee
Text by Gridthiya Gaweewong
Text by Hyeyoung Shin
Edited by Heaven Baek
Text by Simon Fuchs
Text by Saskia Janssen
Edited by Sungwoo Kim

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 230.0mm

Height: 280.0mm

Weight: 800g

Pages: 208

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction

About the Author

HEAVEN BAEK (*1984, Busan, South Korea) studied Media Arts in Melbourne, and received her Master's degree from the Glasgow School of Art. She uses staged reality to bring her videos and installations to fruition, magnifying mechanisms of society and social interaction. She lives and works in Seoul and Berlin.