The 59th Minute: Conditions of Anonymity
Kimsooja
March 10-June 10, 2005
Times Square
Image: Kimsooja
Creative Time’s The 59th Minute was the perfect venue for Kimsooja’s Conditions of Anonymity, a collection of one minute segments culled from the South Korean artist’s lauded video work, including A Needle Woman, A Beggar Woman, and A Laundry Woman. In each video, the artist sits, reclines, or stands completely still with her back to the viewer, illuminating by contrast the vibrancy of the locales and the intrusions of the world around her. Kimsooja’s depiction of a stationary individual surrounded by a hectic crowd suggestively mirrored the experience of an observer of the video amongst the throngs of tourists and passersby in Times Square.