Double Eyelid Tape Tutorial (for Monolids of Steel) (2015)

Double Eyelid Tape Tutorial (for Monolids of Steel), 2015, HD video, color, sound, 16:9, 04:21

Exhibitions/Screenings
Unbinding Bodies. Lotus Shoe and Corset, Tieranatomisches Theater, Berlin, 2023, curated by Jasmin Mersmann, Evke Rulffes, Felix Sattler

Unbinding Bodies. Lotus Shoe and Corset, Museum am Rothenbaum. Kulturen und Kunst der Welt, Hamburg, 2022, curated by Jasmin Mersmann, Evke Rulffes, Felix Sattler

Intimacies and Imagined Fictions, SOMA Artspace, Berlin Global Arts Exchange, Asian Pacific American Institute, NYU, 2018, curated by Nabi Nara and Alexandra Chang, Francesca Tarocco

A Sense of Self, Transart Institute Triennale, Berlin 2016, curated by Christine Nippe

TOPO/Carte Blanche, Groupe Intervention Video (GIV), Montreal, Canada, 18 Nov 2015, curated by kimura byol

Double Eyelid Tape Tutorial (for Monolids of Steel) is a how-to-video parody, posing as a you-tube style beauty tutorial and utilises revealing comments by you-tube viewers from the many tutorial videos already in existence, while calling into question the very problematic nature of (orientalist) lookism, at the crossroads of gender and race. The accompanying music is a remake of the opera aria, Habanera, originally from Carmen, composed by French Georges Bizet. Fitting for the context of this video, RHEE highlights a European classical music tradition which has been appropriated by Korean mega-popstar Park Ji-yoon in 1997.