Once is not enough

구민자 Minja Gu
김소라 Sora Kim
양아치 Yangachi
이우성 Woosung Lee
이정민 Joungmin Yi
잭슨홍 Jackson Hong
조현아 Hyun A Cho
주재환 Jae Hwan Joo
진시우 Shiu Jin
차재민 Jeamin Cha
시타미치 모토유키 Shitamichi Motoyuki

2014. 5. 16 - 6. 29

기획 : 김해주

시청각


Are exhibitions a volatile medium? What difference does time createbetween a work from the past and thepresent? What kind of differentcontexts can be created if we bring back works from the past?

The Once Is Not Enough exhibition started from the suggestion that eleven artists present one of their past works. Some of the pieces shown have already been displayed in other exhibitions and others have not had an opportunity to be introduced to the public yet. These works include a work from ten years ago and a work from last year. These works that have been kept in storage, atthe end of a bookshelf, on a computer, been in someone else’s hands, or just existed as memories, are brought together at the Audio Visual Pavilion from the end of spring to the beginning of summer this year.

To revive these works means facing the question of how to bring back experiences and how to rearrange the pieces within a new space. However, the objects are not all that is made present within this new space, they also encapsulate their times and places of production. What stories might these past works have for us? Can they be like ghosts who come back with stories left to tell as long as we are willing to witness the repetition of the same event while still recognizing that time passesand changes linearly?

For this exhibition, each work is combined with a story as a means of making these aforementioned past experiences present. Each story is aunique text that offers insight into thework, shows some of its veiled backgrounds, or reflects the form of the work. They operate as satellites orbiting either close to the work or froma distance based on the interface they establish. These texts, along with the narrow and wide orbits they form, willbe published and introduced within the exhibition.

The exhibition adopts a structure that combines and parallels two forms of engagement -reading books and appreciating art works. From the toenmaru (narrow wooden porch) tothe room opposite to it, from sound to memory, one can witness diverse temporalities being organized by eyes zigzagging from work to work, from one page to another. Through the book,the works repeatedly appear and jumpover the walls of the exhibition spaceand in this way the works call forinsistent memories. Here, within this framework, the increasingly common modes of production that constantlyrequire something new pause for a moment.


photos via: https://twitter.com/AVPavilion



소설가 김연수 x 구민자 작가의 '서른'이후의 낭독
14th June 2014
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152526350209540&set=a.10150117731069540.313491.782619539&type=1&theater

Six (2005),
Thirty (2006),
One Hundred (2007)
Book, note, sound
Revised and Exhibited in Audio Visual Pavilion (2014)
Three pieces related to books are combined into one work. Created (or started as not for the work of art originally) between 2005 and 2007, they had not yet been exhibited before the show 'Once Is Not Enough' in Audio Visual Pavilion. One consists of five separately bound books, one for each short story in (2005). The other is a transcription of writer Yeonsu Kim's short story, (2006). The third piece comprises empty sentences taken from by Albert Camus (2007). However, since these sentences lack contextual details, it is not apparent they were ever located in this novel. This work presents actions in a stationary stage and makes visible the stages that exist between materials and results. 
http://guminja.com/index.php?/works/six-thirty-hundred/

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