For us, KHU means “home”. It is a shelter for us to sustain as artists, and a ritual platform to reveal new margins of the essence.
We sympathized with Zen philosophy from East Asia, especially toward the idea that “all things are free from the necessity of attachment but could exist as exalted beauty”. We are surrendering to the circulation brought from this idea in a light-hearted way.
KASO is a short film which combined this concept and derivative form of the bizarre expression of Jakuchu Ito’s “Kaso Nehan-zu (Scene of Buddha's Nirvana by Vegetables)”. As the ordinary, plain vegetables move repetitively in an inorganic manner, they hedge from existing labels and perceptions as “vegetables” – meanwhile, new perceptions emerge from the play. The looping sounds propel the situation and invite us to the nirvanic liberation. Unseen horizon arises beyond exaltation.
