You Move Me

by Edward Kim-Yujoong and Kathleen Marie McDermott

You Move Me, a site-specific installation for 20 W. 53rd St, is a study in transcendence. One thousand pieces of electrical conduit, hand cut and filed into individual chimes, come together to create a surreal terrain suspended in space. When still, the chimes act as an austere landscape, rising and falling with the reverence of a cathedral. When approached by a viewer, the piece comes alive.

Street traffic activates the chimes, causing them to move and dance. As they cross paths each impact multiplies, the sound of which builds a glorious and completely random symphony. The curious observer is rewarded for their closer examination with this private, unique performance.

You Move Me is a hymn for New York City. It relies on the inherent optimism of simple, common elements coming together to create something transformative. A massive amount of metal, when delicately suspended, becomes as light and ephemeral as any passing New York moment. The simple beauty of metal colliding is magnified and projected, and the daily experience of walking down the street is altered.

To the passerby: no artwork is complete without your welcome investigation.

Artists' Bios:
Edward Kim-Yujoong graduated from Cornell University with a Bachelor’s of Architecture in 2009. He is co-director of the installation and architecture firm UMAMI-UTILITIES, based in Boston and New York. He is also an architectural designer at studioSUMO in Long Island City.

Kathleen Marie McDermott graduated from Cornell University in 2009 with a BFA in Sculpture. Kathleen has had several recent installations in public sites, including The Theater For The New City and the 11bc Community Garden in the Lower East Side. She is a freelance fabricator and sculptor currently employed with U.S. Art Company.

You Move Me is the pair’s first official collaboration, though more installations arelikely to come.
For more information on the artists, please visit:
www.yujoong.com
www.kthartic.com