I have hundreds of closets and drawers in my head. They are all labelled with different names and temperature. They transform their size and materials as season change. However, they all smell like me. I am investigating these closets and drawers with a magnifying glass. My artistic practice is visualizing those investigations in a readable format to contemporary audiences. I am interested in ‘being a nomad’ and ‘moving from one place to another’ in general. To me, all travel stems from the traveller’s internal journey.

The desire for travelling, or wandering around, is the beginning of a method of learning for a nomad. You move, and so does your mind. However and possibly even because of this relationship, after the physical relocation from one’s homeland to “elsewhere”, the fundamental agony of the Third-world woman’s desire for “elsewhere” does not change. Unfortunately, there are no free passports for Third-world women under the so-called ideal of ‘global-citizenship’.

To me, digital media is a perfect magnifying glass to see this fact. I am using multimedia such as online website format, interactive CD-ROM, and screen based contents. In order to land to a destination platform, I’m making stories, movement, performance and visual presentations. But I believe that my art does not require a feasible form. It will dissolve to the hollow hole in the 21c fever eventually. Through this practice, I will also explore the definitions of ‘real’ and ‘virtual’, ‘the inner circle’ and ‘the outer circle’, ‘isolation’ and ‘community’ and in the end, ‘here’ and ‘there’.

taey, Spring 2007