Museum open at 12:00pm
Cinema is closed now
Museum open at 12:00pm
Cinema is closed now
Watching the Unseen – The Showcase of South Korean Moving Image
Program 2: Korean Early Film and Video II: KIM Soungui
The three-day program devoted to video and art film from South Korea was prepared in cooperation with the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul (MMCA). Divided into six chapters, the program opens with a presentation of rarely shown works of early Korean video art from the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, including works by Hyunki Park and Soungui Kim. Most of the program is devoted to the younger generation of Korean artists. They use new technologies and popular culture, boldly experiment with AI, and at the same time draw heavily on animism and folklore, as well as being inspired by activist movements. Selected films reflect dramatic historical events, the political turbulence of recent years, and a belief in the therapeutic, healing power of art.
Program 2: Korean Early Film and Video II: KIM Soungui
This is a retrospective of the cinema of KIM Soungui, an artist who opened up the medium of video and performance to the experience of public space, allowing her works to be created in the rhythm and poetics of everyday life.
Program:
Program:
Kim Soungui, IL-KI (Journal) (1971–1973), 13’33”, MMCA collection
Kim Soungui, Situation Plastique I-III (1973), 22’19”, MMCA collection
Kim Soungui, Kim Soungui Art Festival (1975), 13’6”, MMCA collection
Kim Soungui, Walk, Don’t Walk (1980), 4’55”, MMCA collection
Lecture: KIM Soungui
The program “Watching the Unseen – The Showcase of South Korean Moving Image” was developed in dialogue between MMCA Seoul curator Soojung YI and MSN curator Sebastian Cichocki. It heralds a program exchange between MMCA and MSN, in cooperation with the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, in the coming years.
