A piece of Jongku Kim’s artwork hangs in the Visual Arts Complex. Kim gave a performance followed by a lecture as part of the Visiting Artist Series Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2014. (Allie Greenwood/CU Independent)
Standing shoeless atop a canvas on the floor, Kim Jongku, a sculptor, painter and poet from South Korea, dribbles and dabs fine black powder into poems of calligraphy. A video camera at his feet projects a backdrop of shadows, a mountain landscape made from the steel poem piled below him.
The VAC lobby has been Jongku’s studio during his two-week residency at the CU Boulder Department of Art and Art History. On Tuesday,
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