This installation was created by Ki-Bong Rhee and me during the exhibition
"Seoul DIALOG Hamburg - Hamburg DIALOGUE Seoul".

In the beginning Rhee Ki-Bong and me exchanged many ideas during five month using the fax machine. We prepared a lot of material we wanted to show at the exhibition. During our working period in Seoul we cancelled all the things we had developed unto this moment. We had to find a new, a simple form that included all our former ideas. So we installed a wooden table in our two exhibition rooms. Due to the different levels of the floor the table changed from a Korean table to an European table and at the end to a "bridge". After having built this table we jointly worked on different parts. Rhee Ki-Bong made an acrylic basin, filled it with water on the black table surface, and produced foam that was moving on the water surface.

I took all our dialogue words we had exchanged, transformed them first into digits  and then into a score (using the MAGIC PIWORLD program), engraved this score into the wood and filled the engraving with black oil. The score was transformed to sound (using the GRAPHIC COMPOSER by Jürgen Lange) and this sound  you could hear in the exhibition room.
 

Extract from dialogue Ki-Bong Rhee and Hael Yggs

... hope, to find a special language...
... the concept of change or vanishment...
... I like your misterious and specific methods...
... I have not done this kind of collaborating works and exchanging ideas...
... EXTRA ORDINARY LATE SUMMER...
... Can we develop a dialogue which is at the same time inside an artificial space and
outside?...
... I really don't know the answers...
... keep a moment of romanticism...
... a message in a bottle...
... a special interference of two different histories, living circum-stances, cultures, arts and people...
... transforming "endless" information into a new image I read about the Tripitaka Koreana, that includes more than 55 million characters, the 13th-century woodblock engravings of the complete Buddhist canon.
... I hope we both will find a way to act like two cooks, who prepare an extraordinary meal for senses. You know, that too many cooks spoil the broth, but I think, two of them could create a very interesting brew.
... I might stand on the physical or corporeal bases believe the sensation and organic function.
... superficial sorts like SKIN, the MOVING, FLOWING which happenes in so called raw corporeality...
... I found some interesting clues such as INVISIBLE, SUN,CIRCLE, CIRCUMSTANCE, EXPOSED...
... I am deeply interested in three chained words INVISIBLE-EXPOSED-SUN
... makes our life reverse as well as common...
... there exist invisible sun as common entity between you and me...
... that effect our cultural structures of mind...
... I do not know why my catalogue didn't arrive to you...
... the information in times of digital appearance anyhow can flow with big delay...
... On the other hand work like an transmitter, create informations without prompt response, sometimes generate a special understanding...
... The deep valley that exist between us has a good and useful expression in the change of light and darkness...
... The idea of common and revers live could be supplemented  by the idea of simultaneity...
... The golden chain with milky colored oil flows in my brain as an special stream of imagination...
... INVISIBLE-EXPOSED-SUN and SKIN-MOVING-FLOWING...
... creating process of those pictures similar to "ecrire automatique"...
... to create this special skins based on your personal live and experience...
... my complicate head that cannot make any special ideas...
... reminds me of story about principle of circulation in body and respiration...
... SO JU CHON "completion of KI"...
... the heaven goes round...
... our respiration must be round same as the ceasless movement of celestial bodies like sun and moon...
... These 12 branches are closely related with 12 vital part exist in Ki stream of our front body and back...
... exercise of abdominal respiration...
... I control my body with cold and hot elements...
... I remember the beautiful white haired woman when I traveled in Germany...
... I want to relate this hair and dying to our starting point day and night and its reverse...
... that our idea can be changeable according to our better ideas...
... try to transform our words into visible images...
... like a trace of a woodworm...
... if we find our "abdominal respiration" we will be able to give an "image" of this KI-stream in our exhibition...
... I got amazing curves from weather-measurements (air pressure) during the last year...
... Maybe we can use this black skin for our purpose, because the idea of fabulous...
... because the idea of fabulous presents was a starting point of discovering the world...
... So we create 12 glass objects with forms similar to celestial bodies...
... my sky with hair works and your glass works...
... I hope there can be seen slightly some clouds without sun...
... Large phoenix sitting on the ground...
... It would be good, if we show co-operative works, that includes our both ideas...
... I collected all my hair I cut in the last month...
... Now we created a big cloud of ideas and I'm looking forward to our meeting in Soul where we have to condens this cloud to an amazing rain...
 

A part of fax - dialogue
 

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A part of dialogue numbers, the basis of the score
 

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A part of the score
 
 

A part of the dialogue sound
 
 

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	Hael Yggs entrusts Lee, Yong-Deok with a 43 years old leather coat,   photo: Heike Breitenfeld
	During my stay in Seoul I met the korean artist Lee, Yong-Deok, who's work refer to history and its perception. I gave him an old leather coat as my present.. This coat was bought in Korea in 1956. It comes to Germany and the man, who bought it, wanted to throw it out in 1998. I seized the opportunity and saved it from garbage collection. So I made the coat travel a full circel and I hope, Lee, Yong-Deok will use this present in his own artistic way. On the photo above you see the ceremony of handing over the coat in the studio of Rhee, Ki-Bong.  From left to right: Lee, Yong-Deok; Uwe Ochsler; Anke Mellin; Rhee, Ki-Bong; Hael Yggs