Suk, Sung-Suk’s work stems from a persistent and obstinate doubt. Being unnecessary, doubt is a fundamental actuator that grounds his works. From the past, the Suk has continued multi-media experimental works that has formed from the materiality of media itself to the conscious level it symbolizes. His works were still far from digital transition, but closer to a ‘low-tech’ than a high-technology. It comes out of his intentional choice because he did not think that his meditation on technology was enough to pace up with such a transition and unfold. Also, to weigh up today’s technology from the past one and to imagine future’s technology, is an invariant way of measurement method as our technology’s history testifies. Therefore, the substantial question on the facing changes currently presented with digital should precede it. Analogue, the constituent world which has constituted us, was simultaneously a technological system and a biorhythmically phenomenon reflecting our lives. At the moment when the primordial unit comprising materials is converted into numbers, however, the signal was remediated, and our consciousness, that was once constituent, became segmented. A paranoiac meditation on technology derives from there. When the digital segmentation of constituent notions of analogue exists, what kind of changes would the segmented continuity accompany it? What would we lose in the crack of segments? Is something what comes about out of a crack-gap information or noise?

-Yoo won Joon, translated by Chang Won

Image: © Suk, Sung-Suk
Courtesy of the artist and Trunk Gallery