Hosu Lee
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2026
CHZTS
Time Machine III
from one state to another I-II

2025
*Spacetime Travel II (Hall 6)
*Spacetime Travel II (Hall 7)
*Time And Machine

2024
An Absent Place
Pneumatic Pendulums (castings)
Phasianus (constellation)

2023
*Spacetime Travel
Time Machine II
Mechanical Heart
Automatic Rendering
Radio

2022
Little Dokkebi Site 
The Fallen Tower
Transposition
Genesis Trilogy
This is a Real Pipe

2021
*Seeing with Closed Eyes
*Gaze into Eternity
Cabinet of Phasianus

2020
*Open Studio Brooklyn
Dreamwalker’s Paraphernalia 

2019
Undiscovered Identity
SAAP
Somewhere Home

2018
Your Presence Within What is Independent From You
TAKELSD
The Symphony of Time Machine

2017
Pendulum Project
The Synthesizer

2016
LOOP


Time Machine III, 2026

birch plywood, hinoki, mirror-polished stainless steel, plaster, Gesmonite, metal powder, air compressor, air tank, solenoid valve, gauges, pipes, hoses, bearings, Arduino Nano, transistor circuit, amplifier, speakers, LED indicators

110 x 40 x 126h cm
In 1990s South Korea, after decades of rapid industrialization, the battery-powered cuckoo clock was one of the most common objects in the home and became part of a shared memory for a generation. Hung on the wall in many middle-class households, it held a particular place in the family's daily timekeeping. Its sound and movement often fascinated children, who sensed a kind of life in the mechanical object. Something alive lives inside the machine and tells us the time.

The third iteration of Time Machine returns to these early memories of the cuckoo clock. Its hourly call worked as a small ritual that structured modern time, yet it also carried an uncanny feeling that unsettled a child's preconscious experience of time. Here, the mechanical cuckoo is absent. In its place, the clock houses a pneumatic and audio system that produces acoustic sound and vibration, pushing the pendulum in unexpected patterns that no longer follow the hours.