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Do-Ho Suh abstract

Do-Ho Suh: 

Best known for his intricate sculptures;

Born in Seoul, Korea in 1962;

Earning his BFA and MFA in Oriental Painting from Seoul National University.

Continuing his studies at the Rhode Island School of Design and Yale University in US;

Living and working in both New York and Seoul;

Solo exhibitions: 

The Storefront for Art and Architecture (2010); the Serpentine Gallery; London (2002), Seattle Art Museum.

Group exhibitions:

The Baltimore Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Biennials: 

The 49th Venice Biennale in 2001; The Liverpool Biennial in 2010.

The major museums have his collections:

The Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Guggenheim Museum, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

Do-Ho Suh's background and history--Wikipedia

Do-Ho Suh was born in Seoul, Korea in 1962. After earning his BFA and MFA in Oriental Painting from Seoul National University, and fulfilling his term of mandatory service in the South Korean military, Suh relocated to the United States to continue his studies at the Rhode Island School of Design and Yale University. He leads an itinerant life, hopping from his family home in Seoul (where his father is a major influence in Korean traditional painting) to his working life in New York. Migration, both spatial and psychological, has been one of Suh's themes, manifested through biographical narrative and emotionally inflected architecture. Best known for his intricate sculptures that defy conventional notions of scale and site-specificity, Suh's work draws attention to the ways viewers occupy and inhabit public space. Interested in the malleability of space in both its physical and metaphorical manifestations, Do Ho Suh constructs site-specific installations that question the boundaries of identity. His work explores the relation between individuality, collectivity, and anonymity.He has had solo exhibitions at Storefront for Art and Architecture (2010), the Serpentine Gallery, London (2002), Seattle Art Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, and the Artsonje Center in Korea. He has also participated in group exhibitions at the Baltimore Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, New York, and at the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, among others. Suh has participated in many biennials including the 49th Venice Biennale in 2001. In 2010 he was shown in the Liverpool Biennial, the Venice Biennale Architecture, and Media City Seoul Biennial. The artist's work is represented in a number of major museum collections including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Guggenheim Museum, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Do Ho Suh lives and works in New York City and Seoul, Korea.

Hurricane Katrina - Wikipedia

Hurricane Katrina of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season was the costliest natural disaster, as well as one of the five deadliest hurricanes, in the history of the United States.[3] Among recorded Atlantic hurricanes, it was the sixth strongest overall. At least 1,836 people died in the actual hurricane and in the subsequent floods, making it the deadliest U.S. hurricane since the 1928 Okeechobee hurricane; total property damage was estimated at $81 billion (2005 USD),[3] nearly triple the damage wrought by Hurricane Andrew in 1992.[4]

Hurricane Katrina formed over the Bahamas on August 23, 2005 and crossed southern Florida as a moderate Category 1 hurricane, causing some deaths and flooding there before strengthening rapidly in the Gulf of Mexico. The storm weakened before making its second landfall as a Category 3 storm on the morning of Monday, August 29 in southeast Louisiana. It caused severe destruction along the Gulf coast from central Florida to Texas, much of it due to the storm surge. The most significant number of deaths occurred in New Orleans, Louisiana, which flooded as the levee system catastrophically failed, in many cases hours after the storm had moved inland.[5] Eventually 80% of the city and large tracts of neighboring parishes became flooded, and the floodwaters lingered for weeks.[5] However, the worst property damage occurred in coastal areas, such as all Mississippi beachfront towns, which were flooded over 90% in hours, as boats and casino barges rammed buildings, pushing cars and houses inland, with waters reaching 6–12 miles (10–19 km) from the beach.

The hurricane surge protection failures in New Orleans are considered the worst civil engineering disaster in U.S history[6] and prompted a lawsuit against the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), the designers and builders of the levee system as mandated by the Flood Control Act of 1965. Responsibility for the failures and flooding was laid squarely on the Army Corps in January 2008 by Judge Stanwood Duval, US District Court,[7] but the federal agency could not be held financially liable due to sovereign immunity in the Flood Control Act of 1928. There was also an investigation of the responses from federal, state and local governments, resulting in the resignation of Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) director Michael D. Brown, and of New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) Superintendent Eddie Compass.

Several agencies including the United States Coast Guard (USCG), National Hurricane Center (NHC), and National Weather Service (NWS) were commended for their actions. They provided accurate forecasts with sufficient lead time.[8]

Reference:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Katrina#cite_note-TPInteractive-4

I feel gloomy

Today is little cold, I go to coplay to change the size of my clothes.
After I go out of the subway station, I see two persons, whose clothes are dirty, standing on the street with a cardboard.

At first time, I don't care because I'm hurry to change the clothes. But when I come back, I find they are still there. Then I see what said on the cardboard.
I find some information about them:
They are father and son;
They are homeless now;
They need help.
Those are also my reasons to help them. When I go closely, I find no one pay attention to them, although there are many people around the street. When I see their eyes, I can find sadness. I give the father $20 that I have in my pocket, and I hope that may help them.

On my way home, I'm still think about the "Thank you" he told me. I have a question about "why people don't help them?" Because they may not be the real homeless people? If they are the real ones, what's the future of them and what can we do for the homeless people?
I need an exact answer.

I have a dream.

I have a dream that relatives in our country can get together, and they can not be separated by others. They can live happily without being worried.

I have a dream that everyone can make a contribution to others as a volunteer. They can donate to help each other without protest.

I have a dream that one day the green can be found everywhere in China. Children can play on the grass, and people never worry about the water and food. Every child can grow up healthily.

I have a dream that our technology can be developed fast and better. In this way, all the disabled person and badly sick people can have a normal, but beatific life.

I have a dream that one day the war will disappeared on the world. Everyone can make friends with each other with sincere smile. They can create a beautiful future.

This is our hope and this is our belief that can make me walk on the road of life to see all the things happening.

With this belief, I'm firmly convinced that it can be come true in the future. At that time, there is no difference among the people. There is no war between the countries. There is no harm on the world any more. The man just have the happiness around them and forever.

Let the persuasion go over the sea.

Let the belief pass through the earth.

Let the faith spread across all over the world.

The presentation of the 7-day basic cost

Last week, we have a presentation. Each group can choose one of the three topic to test and give a report. Our group chose the topic about "The basic cost in a week". It has the connection with the article about Singer's solution for the poor. It was very interesting that most of the groups in our class chose this one as their experiment. Because we thought it was easy to do. But I found I was wrong. It could be a kind of torment that made me annoyed.

During the 7 days, I could only eat bread and milk for meals. Although I could have dinner with others together which was already free, I couldn't keep on doing it. So after 3 days later, I ate lunch at canteen in the university which made me really happy. Sometimes, I was walking in the street and market when I saw a thing I like, I should just see it for several minutes and give it up at last. Finally, my action gave me the return that I saved almost 25 dollars which was hard for me to achieve.

When the presentation started, I was really nervous. I didn't know why I became so restless because I also gave several presentation in my school. The one main reason I thought was the first group did so perfect which gave me much pressure. When it was my turn to say, I found my heart was throbbing strongly. I must say something I told to myself and I really did it. Although I didn't say very well, I still kept on reporting. I wanted to try.

After our presentation, I could still hear my heart was jumping up and down. The encouragement from my partners gave me much power to finish the presentation. At that time, I could not believe I did it. HAHA.

Other groups' presentation were great, especially their experiments and PPT. I wanted to do better in the future and this presentation class gave me a good and impressed experience.

A terrible thing happened last day

What a bad day. I really unlucky last day. I can't believe it that all the important information in my mobile HDD was missing and the mobile HDD also didn't work any more. I spent a whole afternoon to repair it, but I failed.If there is no idea, I should take it back to my hometown to fix it. How can I get the lost information back? Does someone give me an idea?

If I can't make the mobile HDD work again, maybe I need a new one. Could you recommend a good and safe mobile HDD to me?

Thank you very much!

The interesting experiment today

The weather is ... All right, it's a rainy day.

Today, Jessica give us a test in class about awareness and observation. It's a really funny experiment, but it's also a little hard if your eyes are not well, for example, me.
Now let's  say something about our experiment.
We should find some things happening in the vedios. Such as the sea wave is disappearing with time going by, the road is missing or anything else lost slowly.

In tht test, I found my observion is poor that I could not find most of the things which were changing.
The big reason about why we can't fing the changing is we concentrate on the other things. When we can't see all the things around we may loss lots of things.

It's a really interesting experiment. You can have a try.

Reaction to Singer’s essay

My final main reaction to Singer’s essay is effective, but extreme. At first, I read the story about Bob, I feel very angry about his action as most of people will do. But I changed my idea slowly when I read  the whole article.

 The two options which Singer gave us to choose were very crazy and extreme. Bob had two choices, one was the child’s life, the other one  was his future. It’s a real difficult question for him and most of the people to choose. Singer's action may like pushing people to make a decision. I think no one can decide such a thing in a moment. 

In totally, I agree with Singer’s idea. Because he gave us an example that everyone could donate to people who need help if they saved money in their daily life. But he considered people’s behavior was the same with Bob if they didn’t make a contribution to pay money for poor people. It’s so exact that we may can’t accept it.

In my opinion, we can do some things to help others, such as offer some money  to  the poor or give a hand to them in life. But it can be done with a premise that people can live well. In this way, people has the extra wealth and time to help others. That’s the truth. Isn’t it ?

The Scramble for Wealth and Power

Today, we played a game as Wealth & Power. At first, we got the coin in different way, such as questions, luck and grab. Then we were divided into 3 groups depend on our coins: Great, moderate and poor team. Obviously, Great team had the largest power. Our task was getting more coins to have more power. I was in middle group because of 21 coins. The final process was how to use our power to acquire more benefits. As a result, all the people became the moderate one.

The game is interesting and dianoetic, and it contains teamwork, decision and so on. In this game, I thought I was treated fairly, because everybody had the same quantity of coin at last.

But I have an idea about it. If we want to get more power from great team. We may can help some people in our group become the great one. Then they can help us get much power to make a decision. However, their also some problems about the wealth. If some of us become the great wealthy one, they should also keep the rules we decide for great ones. So we should have a detailed and exact plan to make our target come true.

All in all, it is a good and entertaining experience. Do you think so ?

My Blog & Answer

Here is my blog. http://liuhaofred.blogspot.com/ The article told us what you thought in daily life might not be the same as it in pressure. It's crazy that people will do when they cannot be responsible for others' lives. The impression of the world in my view changes a lot. We shouldn't think as we always do now.