April 2011
Seoul
Apple vs. Banana
Sink 싱크대
2011
Pagoda (Carpet)
2011
Work in Progress
April 2011
Hyungdai Cultural Center
Seoul
Apple vs. Banana
Pia Lanzinger
Iede Reckman
Anne Holtrop's drawing referencing "Apple vs. Banana"
by Chung Seoyoung
April 2011Ansan, Korea
The Adventure of Mr. Kim and Mr. Lee
UNADVENTUROUS ADVENTURE
Designed by Yeoun Joo Park
via http://umool.net/indexhibitv070e/index.php?/umool9/unadventurous-adventure/#
TELL ME TELL ME
: AUSTRALIAN AND KOREAN ART 1976-2011
at THE NATIONAL ART SCHOOL GALLERY
SYDNEY
17 JUNE - 24 AUGUST 2011
Tell Me Tell Me: Australian and Korean Art 1976 - 2011 is a major exhibition of Korean and Australian contemporary art celebrating 2011 as the Australian-Korean Year of Friendship.
The project highlights the historical and ongoing connections between Australian and Korean art and showcases works from the collections of both museums.
The exhibition is a first-time collaboration between the MCA in Sydney nd the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Seoul (NMOCA) and is the first stage in a two-part cultural exchange of art and ideas. It is inspired by Nam June Paik’s 1976 visit to Sydney and the 1976 Biennale of Sydney, that included a group of important Korean artists.
Tell Me Tell Me explores conceptual, fluxus and technological art being created in both Korea and Australia at that time and regional variations in both countries over three decades to the present day.
The exhibition also explores the idea of artists using recent art histories to influence new work and sculpture, installation and object-based art forms now under the weight of conceptualism.
The core of the exhibition comprises a significant collection of historical works by important artists from both countries, including Nam June Paik, Marr Grounds, Terry Reid, Noel Sheridan, Stelarc, Ken Unsworth, Shim Moon-Seup, Kang So-Lee, Insic Quik, Rosalie Gascoigne, Gaiyabidja Lalara, Don Gundinga and Lee U Fan.
The contemporary Australian and Korean artists featured include Brook Andrew, Louise Weaver, Nyapanyapa, Charlie Sofo, Brown Council, Lou Hubbard, Stuart Ringholt, TV Moore, Beom Kim, Yeesookyung, Haegue Yang, Hyun Ki Park, Chung SeoYoung, Kim Eull.
Jointly curated by MCA Curator Glenn Barkley and NMOCA Curator Inhye Kim, the exhibition will be held at the National Art School Gallery, Darlinghurst and will open on 17 June 2011.
It will later travel to the NMOCA in Seoul where it will be exhibited from 8 November 2011 to 19 February 2012.
This exhibition is a partnership between the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia and the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea.
텔미텔미: 한국과 호주 현대미술 1976~2011
2011.11.08 - 2012.02.19
국립현대미술관 / 과천
한호 수교 50주년을 기념하는 한국-호주 현대미술전이다.
1976년 시드니 비엔날레의 한국 참여를 기점으로, 1970년대의 미술담론이 현재까지도 유효하게 작용하는 지점을 탐색한다. 호주 원주민 미술을 대거 포함하고 미술의 주술적 기능을 고려하면서, 글로벌리즘에 저항하고 지역성을 부각한 것이 특징이다.
한국과 호주, 1976년과 2011년이라는 서로 다른 시공간을 교차하면서, 철학적 깊이와 가벼운 유희가 조화를 이룬 전시이다.
양국 작가 40여 명의 작품 120여 점이 공개된다.
Kopstoot! De finissage
Finissage event for 'Kopstoot!'
(group survey exhibition, of Antwerpen "scene' publications and archival documentation, curated by De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam, with Johan Pas, Nico Dockx, Vaast Colson and Dennis Tyfus), de Bewæreschole, Burgh-Haamstede (Zeeland, Netherlands), 2008
ZONDAG 20 JANUARI
VAN 15.00 UUR TOT 18.00 UUR
AMSTERDAM _ BURGH-HAAMSTEDE Z ANTWERPEN
Deluxe Penal Festive Ordeal
1st 6 words (of 1,000 or so afterwards!), of ‘Deluxe Penal Festive Ordeal’, intervention (cover to cover, ticker-tape running-frieze, cutting through all pages), 'Bruegel Revisited', group exhibition catalog, edited by Prof. Dr Hilde Van Gelder and others, Stichting Kunstbœk bvba, Oostkamp, 2006
'Bruegel Revisited', (part of 'Bruegel 06' program), group exhibtion, curated by Prof. Dr Hilde Van Gelder and others, organised by Lieven Gevært Research Centre for Photography and Visual Studies (KuLeuven), Kasteel van Bouchout / Nationale Plantentuin van Belgie, Meise, near Brussels, 2006
Deluxe Penal Festive Ordeal
Overdue and missing the 11th hour watershed deadline, remaindered dinosaur eggs and carnivorous orchid bulbs and buds (disqualified as ineligible for acceptance onto Noah’s Ark) harvest, panic-buy, beg, borrow and steal whatever is readily available for them to lay their hands (or rather, paws, talons, pincers, feelers, tendrils and tentacles) upon. Making up for lost-time, they cobble, weave and cooper supreme ultimate champion all-time record-breaking feat of clinker-built, truggery-basket and barrel-keg coach-work, eventually coming up with a hollow thatched nest for them all to reside in. This heavily mixed-pack of seemingly ill-matched and otherwise irreconcilable bedfellows pitch marquee tent (mostly veils and drapery) over their shared punchbowl crater cauldron valley, supplying bedding and provisions.
Entire inconclusively self-reshuffling deck shelters underneath domed and prismatic birdcage umbrella parachute. Accomplishing a veritable wonder, marvel and masterpiece of the highest grandeur and finery; awesome miracle, embodied incarnate in skeletal barbed-wire rib scaffolding and thorny cobweb weeping-willow filigree armature; embellished mainly with exquisite lace trimmings, some gilded braid and tasselled fringes, even equally distanced floral rosettes and silken ribbon bow butterflies, strung up along the fairy-lights and emergency-flares. See-through mirrored crystal lens porthole windows are gathered, aimed, thrown and stuck to each empty gap on this flies’-eye cupola to wallpaper over any cracks, leave behind glazed over facets and fill up vacant sockets, until bonnet hood is no longer a sieve anymore, but hermetically sealed-off and declared watertight. Once safely all aboard, they firmly screw down the lid, welding it shut, before throwing away the key (on grounds of being just so much excess-baggage, surplus to requirements and not wanted on voyage).
Mountain peak rooftop grows maypole, providing mast for rigging with windmill and nautical sails, waving semaphore flags, as chimney funnels blow out smokestack and exhaust-fumes which jet-propel and drive everything onwards. At forefront, flame-throwing dragon vulture figurehead mascot bust, appointed to serve as lookout, captain, tour-guide and navigator finds way ahead; while aft, arrow-headed scorpion and sting-ray tail beats frantically, below which, open and waving peacock-feathered bustle and fan, both rudders steering hulk forth. Lower fuselage, saucer-hulled keel, both port and starboard sides and galley run on caterpillar-tracks, animal and aviation wings, propeller-blades, screws, fins, paddle-wheels, skis, galleon-oars and jet-turbines –not forgetting having cloven-hoofed and iron-shod elephant-legs and claws with webbing and spurs for feet. This bulldozing juggernaut lays down anchor to moor (fly-pitching and double-parked) wherever is up for grabs.
During transit and propagation, this cargo and crew make a pact that they’ll never hatch or blossom out as most customarily expected; instead, electing to pool resources, transfer attributes and interbreed as one and the same with their dwelling; sworn oath and solemn vow, kept and followed down to the very last detail, adhered to and expanded upon from then on.
By the time of arrival, they’re all well on the way to advanced stages of graduation into becoming armour-plated beetle mollusc sea-anemone snail crustacean shellfish turtles. Hardly any of these foul meat and sickly confectionery invertebrates is perceivable or ever ventures much outside hiding, apart from their punctured flat blown tyre slug underbellies, which graze, shave, plough, mow, iron smooth, even out and recarpet ground passed over, vacuum hoovering up any wastage and special finds come across, while more than mere truffles and grubs are hunted for and rooted out. Reason being, main bodily bulk wears and occupies bullet-proof façade overcoat hollow shield; standardised uniform as fitted (pressed tightly and compact, though secure and comfortable) by arsenal-store. Only one masterstroke is still missing, but desperately needed, before matters be deemed properly complete.
Wardrobe-department conducts personalised consultation and sympathetic makeover, issuing especially commissioned protective reinforcement outer casing custom decoration, so novice cadets and seasoned veterans alike attain and enhance character, identity, individualism, development and creative expression; boosting self and group worth and pride, for when contributing maximum input towards common and greater effort and cause. Favoured options include: shuttered-villa, taxi-cab, tug-boat, midget-submarine, alarm-clock, steam-locomotive, treasure-trunk, carriage-lantern, matching-luggage, piggy-bank, pin-cushion, perfume-spray, gaming-dice, church-bell, food-jar and medicine-phial etc. Whichever form gets taken and accepted for usage is styled on that of inviting and welcome tactile and friendly toys, pleasant and agreeable buxom and well-rounded learning-aids, always sensible and no-nonsense in appearance, without off-putting sharpness or undue complexity to upset and ruin things before they even start.
Actually, targeted coffins, betraying their top-secret data would be far more honest than this toxic jail-bait set-up –which turns out to be some great, big, highly convenient labour-saving-device and exercise really –literally, only cosmetic improvements at best, whitewashing cover-up for counterproductive, treacherous and deceitful, vested-interest, purpose-serving and ultimately lethal stabs-in-the-back and sabotage, inflicted by stealth. Gift-horse stable (accepted unchecked, without substantial inspection, dentally or elsewhere) at once grants outsiders –and (even worse still) enemies easy identification of any specific member and aided distinguishing of one from another; double-agents know exactly where they are, what there is and how things lie, in event of counterfeiting and impersonation as infiltrators; plus furthering gradation, rift, inequality and conflict through extant rank, status and hierarchy amongst their own number; one way or another, potential threat –or even harm, poised to undermine everything.
Despite this difficulty, setback –and downright security-risk, nearly jeopardising safety and wellbeing, considerable progress and advancement somehow gets achieved, even turning this severe disadvantage to their favour. Crack-battalion fleet Trojan cavalry herd encircle around centralised hub, where after only a few get distracted off-guard, then falter, slow down, halt and stop dead in their tracks, that the rest stumble, lose balance and fall over, tripping up everybody else; all left unable to stand upright properly again for some time yet; ending up heaped into a restless soft pyramid straight mound sprawling rockery; they clamber upon each other; until managing to dismantle, get back up and find balance again, exit and move on. Lost-bearings regained, disorientation overcome, casualties recover, surviving. Anatomical fixture component exchange, redistribution and substituting evolve into a totemic multi-storey high-rise chest-of-drawers shelving-cabinet, which organic and animate ornaments and trophies shoulder responsibilities for and enjoy full-run of.
©, Copyright, Douglas Park, 2006
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