Platforms of Reality is a multi-layered analysis and interpretation of Heaven Baek's work
which explores how individuals and society interact both in reality and on stage. It ranges
from the artist's early works to her most recent practice in which she questions the reality
of video timelines instant realities and collective memories. Her wellscripted performances
are spatial visualizations of the flood of real information that has somehow lost its purpose
and meaning. The book is divided into four chapters each exploring a different sense of
reality and bringing together her artistic approaches. The metaphor of the platform can be
imagined as stages for her work where trains depart from different tracks with different
destinations crossing paths as they meet continuously. Baek attempts to permeate social
collectives with her research and artistic methods- from drawing to video to installation.
HEAVEN BAEK (*1984 Busan South Korea) studied Media Arts in Melbourne and received her
Master's degree from the Glasgow School of Art. She uses staged reality to bring her videos and
installations to fruition magnifying mechanisms of society and social interaction. She lives
and works in Seoul and Berlin.
