Scrumped (Extended Version)

2016, 31:31 min, color, sound, HD video

Writes Seoungho Cho: "My intention with this project is to produce video art work about Buddhist rituals that are nothing but the ambience rituals themselves—a visual meditation of religious rituals as performance."

"Religious rituals are complex and layered. As I have participated or confronted these religious rituals throughout my life as a non-believer, I have also personally experienced spirituality yet also felt them as an unfathomable human behavior and performance. Buddhist rituals give me a kind of metaphysical intimacy with the concepts of reliance, unconcern, death, extinction and absolution, while being charged with an enormous incomprehensible energy. I wanted to convey the immense complexity of these labyrinth—like spiritual constructions and the energy they create in my work, which I execute through obsessive observance."