CUBE
151 Bank Street, NEW YORK CITY, 2023
Director: June Seo
Asst. Director: Raychel Ceciro
Dramaturgy: Jeonghoon Choi
Producer: Emily Dean
Stage Design: Drif Dong
Lightning Design: Giancarlo Abrahan
Videography: Moira Zang
Performer: June Seo
Exhibition
BEYOND BOUNDARIES: THE SPACE BETWEEN US
November, 2024
72 Warren St, New York
Asst. Director: Raychel Ceciro
Dramaturgy: Jeonghoon Choi
Producer: Emily Dean
Stage Design: Drif Dong
Lightning Design: Giancarlo Abrahan
Videography: Moira Zang
Performer: June Seo
Exhibition
BEYOND BOUNDARIES: THE SPACE BETWEEN US
November, 2024
72 Warren St, New York
CUBE
We will build a universe — the system of reality. The system is to be built as a structure. As makers of our universe, we precede the structure. We, in the structure, and through the plays of structure, are making the structure. Rather than creating, we are building. We are always slipping but with a direction. We are marching — a procession. Rather than marching, we are making pottery by hand. The pottery, a clay pot or a vase, is the culture, religion, humanness, history, how-things are-ness, the system, and therefore the universe. It precedes and anticipates Life. We are making pottery by hand.
Pottery-making, universe-building, and history-writing is a difficult and ugly task. History is complex — often repulsive, most beautiful, absolutely and boringly true and with pretty falsities, as is pottery. Although it is about how-things-are and the procession toward Life, it is not given. It is a historical process that is human-made. We will build the world as such. The line will emanate from us. We will pull the line out of ourselves, build the plane ourselves, construct the structure and have our play in it in the world of the Others. It will be safe for us there. Only through the suffering of labor, our precious and pedestrian world-building, can we be finally safe.
What is the structure? The structure's basic building block is a line. A point, in its singularity, cannot be a structure; there are no relations. A point does not anticipate. A line anticipates. A line is a relation between the points. It itself is a plane and it anticipates the plane. Through lines, we will build the plane, and through plane, we will build the structure, because the plane anticipates the structure. The structure anticipates Life. Life takes place through the structure. Life is the reason for the structure, the form of the structure, and the substance of the structure. Life anticipates Death, but that's another story although it literally is the story through Life. Through the delineation of lines, and through the repetition of planes, and through the play by persons, we will have our universe — the most fundamental abstraction of the universe, which precisely is the universe.
The structure is the Grid pregnant with Life (therefore achieving the third and the fourth dimensionality) — it is the necessary condition of possibility for Life and all things in Life. The structure legislates, regulates, categorizes, instructs, and names things. It exists to be broken out of, and it exists to come back to because it never truly breaks. It protects through repression and contains all truths, all falsities, every information, and all knowledge. The structure, in the most literal sense, is the history — the how-things-are-ness. By the virtue of what it is, it precedes us and Life. Procession and anticipation.
The affective consequences of the structure are that of incarceration and liberation, of anxiety and familiar comfort, of submission into the absolute and the following protection/mediation from the anarchic spontaneity and the immediacy of life. Its boringness is what is exciting. Its perfectness is the reason it leaves us alienated and lacking. Its indexes point to everywhere, and it contains everything while its abstracted form leaves everything external to it.
We precede life but only in Life and through Life. Through rest, we shall truly be the first authentic cause of this universe.
It is a continual progress — a procession. We will march/slip on. We have built the universe. Now, we can situate Life in it. It is a privilege to be able to situate Life. But it is an important task. We are topographical beings that occupy a space. What would life mean if we were to occupy without the map? The dry abstraction built through the labor of love will give us a map — a topography, a universe, a space, a site. It is in our power to situate Life in it.
Pottery-making, universe-building, and history-writing is a difficult and ugly task. History is complex — often repulsive, most beautiful, absolutely and boringly true and with pretty falsities, as is pottery. Although it is about how-things-are and the procession toward Life, it is not given. It is a historical process that is human-made. We will build the world as such. The line will emanate from us. We will pull the line out of ourselves, build the plane ourselves, construct the structure and have our play in it in the world of the Others. It will be safe for us there. Only through the suffering of labor, our precious and pedestrian world-building, can we be finally safe.
What is the structure? The structure's basic building block is a line. A point, in its singularity, cannot be a structure; there are no relations. A point does not anticipate. A line anticipates. A line is a relation between the points. It itself is a plane and it anticipates the plane. Through lines, we will build the plane, and through plane, we will build the structure, because the plane anticipates the structure. The structure anticipates Life. Life takes place through the structure. Life is the reason for the structure, the form of the structure, and the substance of the structure. Life anticipates Death, but that's another story although it literally is the story through Life. Through the delineation of lines, and through the repetition of planes, and through the play by persons, we will have our universe — the most fundamental abstraction of the universe, which precisely is the universe.
The structure is the Grid pregnant with Life (therefore achieving the third and the fourth dimensionality) — it is the necessary condition of possibility for Life and all things in Life. The structure legislates, regulates, categorizes, instructs, and names things. It exists to be broken out of, and it exists to come back to because it never truly breaks. It protects through repression and contains all truths, all falsities, every information, and all knowledge. The structure, in the most literal sense, is the history — the how-things-are-ness. By the virtue of what it is, it precedes us and Life. Procession and anticipation.
The affective consequences of the structure are that of incarceration and liberation, of anxiety and familiar comfort, of submission into the absolute and the following protection/mediation from the anarchic spontaneity and the immediacy of life. Its boringness is what is exciting. Its perfectness is the reason it leaves us alienated and lacking. Its indexes point to everywhere, and it contains everything while its abstracted form leaves everything external to it.
We precede life but only in Life and through Life. Through rest, we shall truly be the first authentic cause of this universe.
It is a continual progress — a procession. We will march/slip on. We have built the universe. Now, we can situate Life in it. It is a privilege to be able to situate Life. But it is an important task. We are topographical beings that occupy a space. What would life mean if we were to occupy without the map? The dry abstraction built through the labor of love will give us a map — a topography, a universe, a space, a site. It is in our power to situate Life in it.
