Friday 3 July 2009

Wednesday 1 July 2009

Useful readings!! #2

Michel Foucault’s concept of heterotopias points toward counter-sites.... here is a link, click below to read.

Michel Foucault. Of Other Spaces (1967), Heterotopias

Heterotopia

Michel Foucault uses the idea of a mirror as a metaphor for the duality and contradictions, the reality and the unreality of utopian projects. A mirror is metaphor for utopia because the image that you see in it does not exist, but it is also a heterotopia because the mirror is a real object that shapes the way you relate to your own image.

Foucault articulates several possible types of heterotopia or spaces that exhibit dual meanings:

  1. A ‘crisis heterotopia’ is a separate space like a boarding school or a motel room where activities like coming of age or a honeymoon take place out of sight.
  2. ‘Heterotopias of deviation’ are institutions where we place individuals whose behavior is outside the norm (hospitals, asylums, prisons, rest homes, cemetery).
  3. Heterotopia can be a single real place that juxtaposes several spaces. A garden is a heterotopia because it is a real space meant to be a microcosm of different environments with plants from around the world.
  4. 'Heterotopias of time' such as museums enclose in one place objects from all times and styles. They exist in time but also exist outside of time because they are built and preserved to be physically insusceptible to time’s ravages.
  5. 'Heterotopias of ritual or purification' are spaces that are isolated and penetrable yet not freely accessible like a public place. To get in one must have permission and make certain gestures such as in a sauna or a hammin.
  6. 'Heterotopias has a function in relation to all of the remaining spaces. The two functions are: heterotopia of illusion creates a space of illusion that exposes every real space, and the heterotopia of compensation is to create a real space--a space that is other.

more text by Foucault here


Monday 29 June 2009

Ggoi will be at @Kaywon art school

i will set up a new blog about visual space for a workshop003 with my summer student in art, multi-media and design student at Kaywon art school. here is more about information about workshop006.

as part of our ongoing(hopefully sutdent could continue) investigation into urban space; interaction with others(creative audience), communication, precarious with sharing skills exchange. it will be fun to see what's happening if you walk to place you dont know to see whatelse is happening and its is an experiment to start off with other thinsgs.

Themes:
prepheral space,
Precarious,
setting up situations, joyful and playful,
discover social hub, uncovering community

How does one utilize or occupy public space?

Wednesday 20 May 2009

Forthcoming Exhibition-Updated!!

Here is the link of CAM posted on YouTube.

CAM
Visningsrommet USF
22. mai – 21. Juni 2009
Åpning: fredag 22. mai // 1900
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Mechanical reproduction of art changes the reaction of the masses toward art. […] The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.
Walter Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

The title CAM refers to the practice of illegally copying movies by filming the screen in movie theatres. The exhibition actively refers to this practice by including a series of cammed contemporary art exhibitions currently showing in galleries and museums in more than ten countries on three continents.

CAM proposes a critical view on digital piracy in contemporary popular culture and raises questions about authenticity, exclusivity and representation.

Paraphrasing, copying and quoting are well established and acknowledged strategies in contemporary art through modernism and post-modernism. With contributions on the logic of representation like Walter Benjamin’s Art in the age of mechanical reproduction and his term “aura”, the significance of the singularity work of art is removed from its status as an original. In mechanical reproduction, like photography, there is no original or copy, and the experience of art is freed from the bourgeois structures of power and brought under the control of the masses. This democratization of reproduction has had an imperative effect on the arts in the way that copying and referring has become less a way of learning the practical aspect of art, but has merged into a diverse set of strategies directed towards producing new types of knowledge about art itself and about systems of knowledge like philosophy, science and politics.

Presenting cammed exhibitions from three continents, CAM points to the challenges concerning globalized dissemination of cultural products by shifting the power balance between market-oriented curatorial and artistic practices and the art consumer.

With the introduction of digital reproduction and dissemination of contemporary popular culture, the democratization of reproduction is revitalized. Digital technology potentially disseminates cultural production across boundaries, both cultural and physical, enabling new groups and individuals to partake in a global economy of knowledge, culture and finance. In a political sense, popular culture hence seemingly dethrones contemporary artistic practices as the main cultural signifier. This again points to one of contemporary arts main challenges which is to reach a public that is not already on familiar terms with art and its diverse practices.

The exhibition is curated by Arne Skaug Olsen together with Erlend Hammer, Jan Christensen, Synnøve G Wetten, Andre Gali, James Webb and Lerato Bereng, Jooyoung Lee, Jimmi Limit, Wang Baoju, Joris Lindhout, Jan Freuchen, Runa Johannessen and Dan Levenson.

CAM is supported by Arts Council Norway, The Municipality of Bergen, and Hordaland County.

Arne Skaug Olsen
Gallery Director // Fagansvarlig
www.gallery-usf.no
+47 920 68 453

Tuesday 19 May 2009

Forthcoming talk on 29th Gagallery 8-10pm

normal type / normal talk

지 난 4월 15일 작동하기 시작한 normal type은 5월 말, 새로운 형식의 대화 프로그램인 normal talk를 개최합니다. normal talk는 지식과 감성의 나눔을 생동적으로 작동시킬 대화형 플랫폼입니다. 동시대 미술계의 이슈, 작가의 작업 및 프로젝트, 비판 이론에 대한 낭독과 강독 등 다양한 주제들이 유기적 포멧으로 진행될 예정입니다. normal talk는 관례화되거나 경직된 혹은 너무 수다스럽거나 소란스러운 대화의 자리를 벗어나, 아직은 어떻지 모르는 normal한 형식을 발명하고자 합니다.

날짜 : 5월 22일(금), 23일(토), 28일(목), 29일(금)
장소 : 719 라운지 (가 갤러리 1층)
시간 : 오후 8시 ~ 10시

5월 22일 금요일
김현진 / 미술 기관의 위기, 금융 위기 보다 더 심각한

미술 평론가이자 큐레이터인 김현진은 오는 6월초 한국예술종합학교 미술원 조형연구소에서 발행 예정인 [비주얼] 6호에 ‘미술 기관의 위기, 금융 위기 보다 더 심각한’이라는 시평을 작성했다. 이 글은 전지구적인 경제 위기 속에서 현재 한국 사회에서 야기되는 미술계의 변화를 미술 기관을 중심으로 작성된 것이다. 그러나 이 글은 비단 현재의 정치 경제적 위축이 야기한 동시대 한국 미술계와 미술 기관의 상황에 대한 진단을 넘어서서 한국 미술계에서 미술 기관의 의미를 진단하고 문제화시킬 수 있는 다양한 시사점을 제공한다. 이번 토크는 이 글을 바탕으로 동시대 사회 문화적 조건 내에서 미술 기관, 문화의 조건 등에 대해서 이야기를 나누는 자리이다.
-. 게스트 / 정현 (큐레이터 미술평론가) 호경윤 (아트인컬처 기자) 안태호 (컬처뉴스 편집장)
-. 사회자 / 김장언 (큐레이터 미술평론가)

5월 23일 토요일
이미연 / Bada2

작가 이미연은 지난 2008년 Bada2라는 드로잉 북을 출간했다. 이 드로잉 북은 그간 작가의 바다에 대한 드로잉을 책의 형식으로 재구성한 것이다. 작가는 바다에 대한 시각적 연구를 진행하면서 실종과 수색이라는 키워드를 중심으로 인간의 조건과 이미지의 상태를 연구했다. 그래서 이 드로잉 북은 단순한 드로잉들의 묶음이라기 보다는 바다에 대한 파편적인 기억과 비애적 상황에 대한 하나의 서사시가 된다. 이번 토크를 위해 작가는 자신의 드로잉을 재구성한 영상물을 상영하며, 상영 후, 바다에 대한 이야기를 할 예정이다.
-. 사회자 / 김장언 (큐레이터 미술평론가)

5월 28일 목요일
한상혁 / 다가가다

한상혁은 언뜻 동화적이고 자폐적인 자신의 세계에 속에서 자신만의 조형 언어를 탐구하는 것처럼 여겨진다. 그러나 이러한 그의 이름 없는 대상과 존재 그리고 자연에 대한 연구는 타자를 맞이하는 그 만의 태도이며, 타자를 알아가는 과정을 학습하는 또 다른 과정이다. 이번 대화에서 한상혁은 이름없는 대상들과 자연에 다가가는 자신의 태도를 사람들과 나누고자 한다.
-. 사회자 / 김장언 (큐레이터 미술평론가)

5월 29일 금요일
이주영 / 예술 품앗이 아웃소싱회사: 마포농산물시장사람들을 위한 리빙룸

이주영과 그의 동료들은 예술 품앗이 아웃소싱회사(Grassroots Global Outsourcing Inc, 이하GGOI) 를 설립했다. 그리고 2008년 GGOI의 임시 거처로 서울 상암동에 위치한 마포농수산물시장에 지역 주민을 위한 리빙룸을 작동시켰다. GGOI는 예술가들에게는 창작행위라는 노동행위를 그리고 대부분이 노동자인 지역 구성원들에게는 휴식을 제공하고자 했다. 이번 대화는 이러한 만남이 이루어낸 어떤 사건들에 대해서 이야기하는 자리이다.
-. 게스트 / 이성민 (도서출판 b 기획위원)
-. 사회자 / 김장언 (큐레이터 미술평론가)

※ 토크와 관련된 자료는 www.normaltype.net/blog에 업로드 될 예정입니다. 참조하시기 바랍니다.

-. 후원 : 719 제작소
-. 문의 : normaltype@gmail.com

(Gagallery Location)

Wednesday 6 May 2009

Forthcoming Events



Pics from the Bloggers meeting at NJP Art center.




Hello, hope you can join me at some of these.

Scroll down for full details of each.

Best,

Blogger’s Meeting

May 9th, 2009 (Saturday)

At Nam June Paik Art Center

Dear All,

The Nam Jun Paik Art Center would like to invite you to the Cultural Blogger’s Meeting on May 9th, 2009.

The Nam Jun Paik Art Center opened last October with its inaugural Festival Now Jump. With the current staging of the first regular exhibition First Stop on the Super Highway we would like to promote better communication between different artistic and culture groups. Taking Nam June Paik’s original 1974 idea of an “Electronic Super Highway,” we would like to foster further communication between different important participants in the current visual arts scene.

Today bloggers are a powerful social network that produce discourse about art and culture, thus, we would like to invite the “authors” of different Korean cultural blogs addressing visual arts and culture to come to the Nam June Paik Art Center for an informal gathering on May 9th. This will a great chance to meet each other, exchange information and see what meeting in person can contribute to the lively Korean Blog Scene. Since it will be the first meeting, we would like to keep the schedule flexible to allow open discussions.

May 9th (Saturday) Meeting

12 noon Arrive at the Nam June Paik Art Center

12 - 1 Lunch

1 - 2:30 sTour of the NJP Art Center (accompanied by Tobias Berger, Chief Curator)

2:30 - 4:30 Open Discussion (with coffee & snacks)

Shuttle Bus

11:15 HanNam-Dong (Across the street from DanKook University) -> NJP Art Center

4:30 NJP Art Center -> HanNam-Dong

If you know of a blogger we may have missed please let us know – thank you.

Language assistance will be provided for English speakers.

Since places are limited, please RSVP by May 3rd

Reservation

Name: JiYong Ahn (Please provide your contact information)

Email: reservation@njpartcenter.kr

Phone: 031) 201-8529

We are looking very much forward to meet you.

Tobias Berger, Chief Curator



Tuesday 31 March 2009

trash mountain#1-updated!!



Blakey from the Literallies-played for Ggoi project showed me Ahyun-dong in Seoul redevelopment area in a rainy day. look how redevelopment is going in Seoul now. Also Blakey has a bunch of pictures of that place. they are called it Korean design style. Please check out more trash mountain photos by Blakey bear on Flickr.
here is a link of Art and phtography by Blakey bear

Saturday 14 February 2009

Disappearance

Please read what I posted for Bureau for Unstable Urbanism in Norway. Here is the link of Disappearnace, and Gentrification/urban renewal and neighborhood change in the city of Seoul.

Wednesday 21 January 2009

Linked post about Tradgey Redevelopment#2

There are lots of dedicated jounalists-seems Detective of History. here is the story about this tradgey witten by a writer called Matt.
Gusts Of Popular Feeling: Burning Yongsan

and here is more News in Korean Shipping container again is a symbol of the globalization .

Redevelopment in Seoul NOW #1-Updated!!

I took this pic on 28th Feb 2008. Seokyodong near Hapjeong Station( is my neighbourhood) where the new building is in the process... This grey fense-wall is part of the street you have to see everyday in Seoul. will post new pic of this street soon...I just got a comment by a blogger who wrote about The Disappearance of Gindeung Maeul(below link). He sent me the link of some pictures of this neighbourhood's destruction last year(above pic). Really thansk for that as i have lost all my old pics on my hard drive-devastating!!

Here is brief intro about previous project in Bergen:
My project will be undertaken on both an independent and a collaborative-basis, exploring the interstices of public and private spaces. For instance, I would like to invite local participants including artists, architect, musicians, designers, students and cultural workers from various groups within the community. It allows invited artists, students and cultural workers to make descriptions of self-portraits in words or speaking (by using narrative), for local participants and communities to produce and participate in art production. For example, Participants are invited to reply to questions: describing themselves, their work, their future plans and how cultural workers help with gentrification, urban renewal, the creation of a service economy, labor of affect/emotions etc.
"How artist help with gentrification, urban renewal, the creation of a service economy, labor of affect/emotions? "
BTW I found very useful info about other part of city "Redevelopment" in Seoul. check this Gusts Of Popular Feeling: The Disappearance of Gindeung Maeul