Lee Kun-Yong Form of Now
eginning in 1975, a young painter named Lee Kun-Yong embraced performance art as an alternative mode of expression, activating gesture and action in some 50 performances proposing an epistemological sensibility based on the experience of the everyday. The logic encapsulated by Lee’s unorthodox practice ran counter to established conventions of art-making—namely, that art should represent something beyond the sum of its labor and materials—exercising
