40th EVA International

31 August – 29 October 2023

across venues in Limerick city.

Guest Programme: The Gleaners Society
Curated by Sebastian Cichocki, the Guest Programme of the 40th EVA International took its thematic basis on the idea and practice of gleaning – a term that traditionally refers to the act of collecting leftover crops following a harvest. The Gleaners Society extended this reference in a multiple of ways, alternately serving as an artistic subject, a political metaphor, and a curatorial methodology to explore and propose art’s relationship to society. Featuring over 45 presentations by Irish and international artists and collectives, The Gleaners Society unfolded across a set of uniquely diverse venues in Limerick city (civic arts institutions, a primary school, a Cathedral, and a vegetarian cafe, among others).

Artists and collectives included: Kateryna Aliinyk, Orla Barry, Robert Barry, Kian Benson Bailes, bela, Kasper Bosmans, Eglė Budvytytė, John Carson, Jeamin Cha, Bryony Dunne, Clodagh Emoe, Rachel Fallon & Alice Maher, Rosalind Fowler, Freefilmers (presented by Asia Tsisar),  Léann Herlihy,  ikkibawiKrrr,  Tamás Kaszás,  Navine G. Dossos,  Eustachy Kossakowski, Kim Beom, Li Mu,  Sharon Lockhart,  Goshka Macuga, Jumana Manna,  Gordon Matta-Clark,  Óscar Mascareñas, Olga Micińska with Mathild Clerc-Verhoeven, Janet Mullarney, Teresa Murak, My-Musical Collective and Pidsoma Shelter, Peter Nadin & Natsuko Uchino & Aimée Toledano, Antonina Nowacka, OHO, Rory Pilgrim, Sana Shahmuradova Tanska, Diane Severin Nguyen, Jessica Sarah Rinland, Joydeb Roaja, Slavs and Tatars, Åsa Sonjasdotter in collaboration with Mercè Torres Ràfols and NCAD FIELD, Seoidín  O’Sullivan, Iza Tarasewicz, Thomond Primary School Gardening Club in collaboration with Deirdre O’Mahony and Hometree, Dominika Trapp, Natsuko Uchino, and Lala Merdith-Vula.

Kim Beom

A Rock that Learned the Poetry of Jung Jiyong, 2010

A Rock That Was Taught It Was a Bird, 2010

Two films that documented lessons given to inanimate objects. In A Rock that Learned the Poetry of Jung Jiyong, a number of instructors took turns to explain to a rock the poetry of Jung Jiyong, a Korean modernist poet. In the second film, avian behaviours, such as flying and perching on a tree branch, were explained to a chunk of granite.

Kim Boem is a conceptual artist and poet who lives in Seoul (KR). Kim has presented work at public arts institutions and galleries including Gallery Baton, Seoul (KR), Kunsthal Aarhus, Aarhus (DE) and Museum of Modern Art, New York (US).

https://www.eva.ie/artist/kim-beom/?yr=2023