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Jessica Morgan gives details of Gwangju Biennale Gwangju | 14 May 2014 | AMA | Tweet | LinkedIn Jessica Morgan, the curator of South Korea’s forthcoming tenth Gwangju Biennale, to take place between 5 September and 9 November 2014. Entitled Burning Down the House, the event is to explore the process of “burning and transformation”, understood as a cycle of obliteration and renewal witnessed throughout history. The event is to open with a piece by Seoul-based artist Minouk Lim: a battered container, placed outside the event, is to contain the remains of some of the civilians killed in the Korean War (1950-53). The work joins other pieces expected to provoke controversy, including an installation by South African artist Jane Alexander, which questions state control and individual freedom. The mood is set to continue in other exhibits: Morgan hopes to borrow Picasso’s 1951 Massacre in Korea (the work is curently held at Paris’s Musee Picasso), telling the Financial Times: “Nominally Picas
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Curator Jessica Morgan on plans for Gwangju Biennale By Caroline Roux May 9, 2014 6:58 pm Minouk Lim is a brave woman. At the opening in September of the Gwangju Biennale in South Korea, Asia’s biggest biennale, she will be responsible for a battered 6m x 3m x 3m container that will be positioned outside the event’s huge windowless halls. Inside the container will be the remains of some of the civilians killed in the Korean war of 1950-1953 ? the bones of near history. These particular remains were left in a cobalt quarry in Gyeongsan-si. In a country where the media is subdued ? and some might say government-controlled ? Lim’s dramatic gesture may seem provocative. “People think that by ignoring the past they can move into the future,” says the Seoul-based artist. “But this action is also about hospitality. I’m asking Gwangju to be open and welcome another story.” Gwangju carries its own burden of grief. The biennale might exhibit the usual characteristics of a circus coming to town,
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Burning Down the House: Gwangju Biennale Programme Announce by Ashitha Nagesh 01/05/14 10:16 PM EDT The programme for the tenth edition of the Gwangju Biennale in South Korea was announced this morning, May 1. The biennale will take place from September 5 to November 9 this year. The title will be “Burning Down the House.” Tate curator Jessica Morgan, who is also curating the biennale, said at a press conference this morning that this is not only a reference to the Talking Heads pop anthem from the 1980s, but also to Gwangju’s tragic history. The town of Gwangju was at the centre of a violent movement for democracy in 1980, the Gwangju Uprising, which saw approximately 165 people killed. “Gwangju is not an obvious place to have a biennale,” Morgan said. “But there is an explosion of activity there.” “There [in Gwangju] your landscape is defined by being forcefully evicted from your home.” The entire biennale will be taking place in one location ? an exhibition hall comprising five gall
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The fifth volume of NOON, the Gwangju Biennale Foundation’s journal of modern art and criticism, has been released. Since 2009, the Gwangju Biennale Foundation has published NOON annually in order to produce intellectual discourse combining aesthetics and humanities in the field of global modern art. This issue, NOON 5:Society & Social, deals with social discourse in the field of visual culture and the value of change in the production of social art. Of particular note is a special interview with the internationally-known Slovenian scholar Slavoj Zizek. This edition contains six features, compiled by president of the Gwangju Biennale Foundation Yongwoo Lee, and an editors’ roundtable. In the roundtable, editors Yongwoo Lee, Seo Dongjin, Sumi Gang, Suki Kim, and Taekgwang Lee hold a discussion on the subject of modern art after the social turn. The features include "Art after the Social Turn: An Impossible Encounter Between the Aesthetic and the Political" by Seo Dongjin (Professor, Kay
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Gwangju Biennale Foundation announce theme for the 10th Gwangju Biennale Gwangju Biennale Foundation has announced the theme for the 10th Gwangju Biennale, taking place from 5 September ? 9 November 2014. Burning Down the House explores the process of burning and transformation, a cycle of obliteration and renewal witnessed throughout history. Evident in aesthetics, historical events, and an increasingly rapid course of redundancy and renewal in commercial culture, the Biennale reflects on this process of, often violent, events of destruction or self-destruction?burning the home one occupies?followed by the promise of the new and the hope for change. In the 1930s the critic Walter Benjamin coined the term ‘Tigersprung’ (the tiger’s leap) for a new model of history where the past is activated in and through the present within a culture industry that demands constant renewal. What can the ‘Tigerspung’ mean for today’s ‘tiger economies’ like South Korea in a context where economic and pol
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The Board of Directors appoints Okwui Enwezor Director of the Visual Arts Sector For the 56th International Art Exhibition 2015 12 | 04 | 2013 Enwezor is a curator, art critic, editor and writer The Board of Directors of la Biennale di Venezia, chaired by Paolo Baratta, met in the headquarters of Ca’ Giustinian and, after thanking and expressing its gratitude to Massimiliano Gioni for the excellent results of the 55th International Art Exhibition, appointed Okwui Enwezor Director of the Visual Arts Sector, with the specific responsibility of curating the 56th International Art Exhibition, to be held in 2015 (Venice, Giardini and Arsenale, May 9th > November 22nd, 2015). Born in Nigeria in 1963, Okwui Enwezor is a curator, art critic, editor and writer; since 2011 he has been the Director of the Haus der Kunst in Munich. He was Artistic Director of the 2nd Johannesburg Biennale in South Africa (1996-1998), of documenta 11 in Kassel, Germany (1998-2002), the Bienal Internacional de Arte
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The Gwangju Biennale Foundation is proud to announce the opening of the Gwangju Folly II. The opening ceremony took place on November 10 and 11, 2013 and coincided with an international conference and the launch of the new publication Folly with contributions by renown academics, writers, and artists grappling with both the history and contemporary relevance of the folly that informs strategic interventions in public space. Gwangju Folly II artistic director Nikolaus Hirsch and curators Philipp Misselwitz and Eui Young Chun have developed a curatorial approach within the ambiguities of a folly as a critical tool of inquiry to address the condition of public space. Since the May 18, 1980 Democratic Uprising, the negotiation of public space in Gwangju has played a crucial role in the transformation of South Korea?it has even come to signify a model for effective political mobilization. Contextualizing the potential of spatial interventions, the eight newly commissioned follies here seek
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Anything, Something: The 5th Gwangju Design Biennale Closes Anything, Something: The 5th Gwangju Design Biennale closed its doors yesterday. The biennale included the participation of 328 designers and design firms from 24 countries, about 600 works exhibited in the Gwangju Biennale Hall and at Uijae Museum. With a total number of over 215, 000 visitors, this year's biennale reaffirmed its standing as a premier event in design aesthetics and a central meeting place for the design industry as a whole. Under the helm of the General Director Young Hye Lee, Anything, Something sought to bring the practical and ethical rather than the aesthetic side of design available to the public. The 5th Gwangju Design Biennale’s expansion into reexamination of industrial aspects of design garnered high acclaim from both the domestic and foreign art and design community. Underlining the biennale’s direction to incorporate the design-to-production process through a variety of projects that involved parti
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Anything, Something September 6 - November 3, 2013 The fifth edition of Gwangju Design Biennale, curated by the Artistic Director Young Hye Lee, will explore cultural habits, shared knowledge and coded contexts that inform the many unspoken ways in which we communicate with one another. The concept inspired by two of the most frequently used words in Jeolla province, [Gusigi Musigi] (Anything, Something) is equivalent to the English phrase “whatchamacallit (what you may call it).” The ability to grasp these hidden contexts and habits in our day-to-day communication can be especially important for designers who are constantly in search of insight into the yet-undiscovered needs and wants. For this year’s edition, three hundred and fifty-eight artists and design firms from twenty countries participate in the Design Biennale with almost six hundred works represented. Reflecting its focus on the practicalities, rather than the aesthetics, of design, both well-established and up-and-coming
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Gwangju Design Biennale, Two Korean Wave Stars’ Dual System Is Drawing Attention “For the 2013 Gwangju Design Biennale, Boa is singing the logo song and YouknowYoonho is appointed as the PR Ambassador.” The 2013 Gwangju Design Biennale (9.6~11.3), the largest domestic design festival that’s leading the Korean Wave (Hanryu) in design hosted by the Gwangju Biennale Foundation (president Yongwoo, Lee), is drawing attention as the two Korean Wave stars, Boa and YouknowYoonho, participate in the event as a form of ‘cultural donation.’ Boa signed an agreement with the Gwangju Biennale Foundation last March and started recording the logo song. The song, through the Gwangju Biennale website and SM Entertainment, is scheduled to release by the end of July. In the midst of her hectic schedule traversing continents back and forth, Boa has been very enthusiastic and hands-on about the logo song; she’s written the lyrics herself and composed the tune. The concept of the logo song, in accordance wit
