Traces of anonymous pupil authors

	Traces of anonymous pupil authors 16 sheets of b/w offset prints Installation view at Kukje Gallery archive, Seoul, Korea Photo © Jaewon Choi




	This work is based on korean school-books for the subjects social studies and general engineering in 7th to 9th grade. The workbooks belonged to the pupils themselves and show the markings they made while studying, i.e. circling, underlining, marking, crossing-out, completions, as well as additional instructions. They represent the pupils own connections, structuring and highlighting. In other words, it is the addition of one's own system to a system which, from the viewpoint of the pupils, is given and unalterable, in order to, in the end, fulfil the requirements of that system. I delete the given texts, so that only the personal notes added remain. I isolate the self-placed learning aids, so that they gain a degree of independence making one aware of the limitations of the given learning aids. Tirana Biennale 1, Tirana, 2001 Sonderfarben, Kommunale Galerie Darmstadt, 2001 1 Site 2 Places, Galerie der Stadt, Sindelfingen, 2001 Kunstpreis der Deutschen Volksbanken und Raiffeisenbanken, Kunst-Werke, Berlin, 2002 Blink, Artsonje Center, Seoul, 2002 Luft und Wasser (Air and Water), Dresdner Bank, Frankfurt, 2002 We ‘re not going to give you pleasure, G39, Cardiff, 2002 Kunst und Technik, Mannheimer Kunstverein, Mannheim, 2002 Subtile Elegance, La Galerie de Noisy-le-Sec, 2002 Punkt und Linie, Fläche und Raum, Zeichnung Heute, Overbeck-Gesellschaft, Lübeck, Germany, 2005 back