hyung-min yoon

윤형민 visual artist

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Kyung Roh Bannwart <kyung.roh.bannwart@gmail.com>     27 June 2007 14:04
To: HyungMin Yoon <oooolongtea@gmail.com>

the way of washing hair.
for the long hair, it all depends on the foreplay. the longer you brush your hair, the
easier, faster washing gets. it's not combing, it's brushing. dusts and dirts get
about 50% removed by brushing, i read from some woman's magazine..(vital sources)
don't really care as long as my hair doesn’t smell too bad, but it's definitely less
armwork to brush hair beforehand. i never use both hands at once to do rubbing.
(too much workout!) i divide my head into three parts, do left first, right, and back.

brushing, it's all about the back of my neck bit.
it's agonizing to brush and endure the pain as my hair always get so entangled
and the boredom of it!.. it's just the unbelievably boring part of taking a shower.
i like brushing when i have nothing to do.the visual of it won't be so interesting. a
little bit of violence, maybe..?
i always throw away my brush after brushing. (always get silly about it)
but i do have soft spot for the brushing business. my top of front head. as i don't
want to lose hair there, i always gently brush that area.
i'll maybe draw how i brush and send you that.

talk to you later













I put Vaseline on my hair after shampooing, before being dried up.

I started to do so, as I got rashes on my hands.

I think it works on my hair as well.

I take a shower at night because of the Japanese habit to have a bath every night.


Shintaro



How to wash your hair  installation




How to wash your hair  /book
How to wash your hair   2007
text, photo installation/ book

For this work I solicited descriptions of several people’s hair-washing methods in person/ by email. I then adopted each method for one day. The work is shown as documentation of me washing my hair according to each method, along with the actual methods described by each person.


하 우 투 워시 유어 헤어 How To Wash Your Hair 는 주변 사람들에게 머리를 어떻게 감는지를 물어본 후 그대로 따라 머리감는 것을 기록한 결과물이다. 머리감기 설명법은 이메일과 손으로 쓴 메모로 받았다. 작업은  이 텍스트와 머리를 감는 나를 기록한 비디오에서 캡쳐한 사진을 함께 설치한다.습관과도 같은 머리감기를 의식화함으로 비슷할 법한 행위가 개인마다 크고 작은 차이를 보임을 알 수 있다.