Points Center for Contemporary Art was honored to invite South Korean independent curator Seon-Ryeong Cho to visit and exchange from October 20th to 22nd.
During the short stay in three days, Seon-Ryeong Cho held a lecture regarding the Korean art industry“Korean Social Change and Art Intervention after 2009”, and invited art critic Jiang Jun as the host. At the same time, Points also held a sharing of China’s contemporary art video collection, open up international research and discussion.
How do art spaces and real spaces intersect? Can the two spaces interact with each other in the interrelationship of production? This is what Cho has been thinking as a curator. The "space" that constitutes one of the most basic emotional foundations of human reality is what is seen in social and artistic situations.
Cho is always very interested in the theme of ‘art and society’, but does not consider that art is the second re-enactment of the real society. Compared to this, art should be a visibility strategy in the real world. In the past 10 years, there have been many political and social changes in Korea. Many Korean creators have done a lot of work on this: some of them directly recorded before the event disappeared, and some caused conflicts or comparisons between the art field and the social field. Use metaphor to map social reality.
In this nearly 1.5 hours, she focused on the works of Korean artists related to the theme of "public space" and exhibitions she planned in the past. A discussion on ‘how does the work carry out a “visible strategy”?’ has been carried between Cho and Mr. Jiang Jun and the audience at the scene.
In addition, a series of questions have been raised, and it is hoped that artists can be inspired by these issues and to think while creating. What are the significance of these works in the history and political situation of Korea? How does the Korean context expand into a general debate in East Asia and the world? Whether these works can transcend the art venue and redeploy social venues.
About the curator
Seon-Ryeong Cho, Associate professor, department of Art Culture and Image, Pusan National University. Aesthetic research and independent curator. She received her Ph.D. in <Lancan’s Fundamental Concepts and Art Theory> from Hongik University. She has studied aesthetics, contemporary art, and image/media culture based on Lacan Psychoanalysis and Poststructural theory. Recent research topics include vision and surveillance, images and archives, and the relationship between screen-based art and subjectivity.
She worked for 10 years as an academic researcher at the Busan Museum of Art. Since then, she has served as the head of the curriculum team at Nam June Paik Art Center, as well as a curator and a member of the Artspace POOL. Since 2010, she has been an independent curator and has organized a series of exhibitions and talk programs on the subject of productive encounter between social and artistic fields.
Since 2009, she has planned include: "Dream house", 2009, Artspace POOL; "A Monumental Tour", 2010, Korea Museum of Art; "Dancers", 2017, Art Museum of Qingnan University; "Allegory、Things、Mnemonics", 2018, National Museum modern and Contemporary; "Cartilage morphology", 2019, Art Museum of Qingnan University; National Museum of Modern Art.