A Dedication to LEE Choon-Sop

Lee Choon-Sop was a Korean theology student imprisoned for protesting the death of a fellow theology student. A Dedication to Lee Choon-Sop was created for an Amnesty International fund-raiser to aid a group of prisoners of conscience detained in repressive countries. The video features a series of photographic images projected onto various materials, including cloth and sheet rock, that are manipulated to suggest the torture to which Lee was subjected by the Korean government. A photographic slide image of a man's nude back, projected onto sheet rock, is beaten with a wooden pole and as the sheet rock crumbles, the image suggests the peeling away of layers of skin. An image of a man's nude torso is projected onto cloth; hands emerge from the top of the frame and roll up the cloth and the image of the man with it, suggesting the dissolution of the body and soul.