kimsooja pierces cornell university campus with needle-shaped pavilion

[Oct 25, 2014
Nina Azzarello, Designboom]

As part of the 2014 CCA biennial, korean-born conceptual multimedia artist, kimsooja has created a 46 foot high, 4.5 foot diameter needle-shaped steel structure, piercing the landscape at cornell university’s arts quad in ithaca, new york. ‘a needle woman: galaxy was a memory, earth is a souvenir’ has been made in close collaboration with architect jaeho chong and the wiesner nanomaterials lab at the university.

drawing reference from the perspectival direction of nanotechnology and french philosopher henri bergson’s thoughts on memory — as related to metaphysical perception — kimsooja has investigated the metaphorical relationship of needlepoint to notions of distance and memory threading across a cosmic scale. ‘an inward directionality found in visual perspective employed by nanoscience convinced me how much nano-techniques are an inverse expression of our perspective of the universe, as well as being related and interconnected to observations in art making.’ she elaborates.

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