Predisposed to Thinking Through the Eye of Mutual Convenience: Hyang Cho, Ken Nicol, Joseph Beuys

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Predisposed to Thinking Through the Eye of Mutual Convenience: Hyang Cho, Ken Nicol, Joseph Beuys Details

A look at the work of two emerging Canadian artists within the context of a 1968 “unique” multiple work by Joseph Beuys (1921-1986). Although coming from very different cultural backgrounds, the practices of Cho and Nicol are characterized by notional and self-reflexive organizing and ordering systems that draw cues from the everyday, examining and selecting readymade elements, and raiding philosophy. Their work may be described as “obsessive” or, as conveyed in the subtitle, “predisposed to”. They share an idea with Beuys, to “function as carriers for complex ideas [as much] as their capacity to release a communicative impulse between artists and viewer.” Hyang Cho was born in South Korea and is based in Guelph Ontario. Ken Nicol is based in Toronto.