2012
Hand-shredded silk flowers
Installation and 30 minutes performance
As a part of the exhibition “Zen Dixie” | Atlanta, Georgia
This exhibition was conceived by John Otte whom Hur met on a trip to New Orleans in early 2012. It was Otte’s vision to bring the intertwined aesthetics and spiritual complexities of Zen Buddihsm and Dixie - the Southern States. This group exhibition “Zen Dixie” was housed at a historic shotgun house located in Cabbagetown in Atlanta. Cabbagetown began as an industrial settlement for laborers of the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mill, founded in 1881.
Hur installed a floor work in the hues of black, lime green, and orange, in a composition that responded to the architectural details of the living room space . The installation was paired with a time-lapse video of night-blooming cereus flowers that open up once a year, “Sleepwalkers” (2011) by Courtney Egan.
As the opening night went on, the floor installation was interrupted by the audience dancing over it late at night, drunk in joy, carelessness, and infatuation. In response, Hur gathered a few guests and performed a piece Untitled: After that night us dancing by rolling her body covered in honey over the piece. The artist then hosted a dinner for the guests.
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“Kneeling as though praying … Hur writhed and rolled through the flowers. Masking the footprints that interrupted her piece, she replaced them with an imprint of her own body...Hur’s performative assertion did indeed feel cathartic, and paired with the rainstorm that passed overhead shortly afterward, it also served as a cleansing.”
- Mackie, Amy, “Contradictions in Terms: ‘Zen Dixie’ in Atlanta,” Pelican Bomb