Chan Sook Choi, THE TUMBLE, 2024. dimensions variable, 3-channel video installation (FHD), 11min, color, sound
Exhibition Preview: Join us for Humming Chorus: Curatorial Talk and Tour, where curators Sungmin Lee, Chaeyoung Lee, Kwonjin Cho, and Heeseung Choi offers insights into the collaborative process behind the exhibition's curation and discuss the featured artists' works. The talk will be followed by a curator-guided tour of Humming Chorus, highlighting new works by Anne Duk Hee Jordan, Eglė Budvytytė, Tetsuya Umeda, and Chan Sook Choi.
Curators
Sungmin Lee
Working in both architecture and the arts, Sungmin LJ has focused on creating open structures that embrace differences and discovering artistic forms that are not fixed. Currently, she works as a curator in the Culture Headquarters of the Seoul Metropolitan Government, planning and supervising the Seo-Seoul Museum of Art construction project, operation plan, and curatorial/research programs since 2018. She has also planned the Seo-Seoul Museum of Art’s annual pre-opening public program (2020-2023). In addition, she has participated in projects and exhibitions including the Northern Gyeonggi Village Archive Project (2017-2018), The Village (Seoul/Istanbul, 2016-2018), Seoul Photo Festival (2010, 2018), Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism (2017), Seoul Mediacity Biennale (2010, 2016), Contemporary Korean Architecture Exhibition: Out of the Ordinary (London, 2015), Anyang Public Art Project (2013-2014), Architectural Urbanism: Melbourne/Seoul (2013-2014), and Seoul Design Olympic (2008) as a curator, researcher, and/or producer.
Cheyoung Lee
Cheyoung Lee is interested in the media environment, the relationship between art, humans, and nature, and the social roles and possibilities of art as technology evolves. She is particularly fascinated by the potential for experimental programming and audience participation both inside and outside the museum setting. She studied history and aesthetics and worked as the curator of Ilju Art House, a space specializing in media art, from 2000 to 2005. In 2007, she joined the team preparing for the opening of the Nam June Paik Art Center, where she served as a curator until 2015. In 2015, she moved to the Gyeonggi-do Museum of Art and served as the head of the Paik Art Center's curatorial team from 2017 to 2021, and has continued in this role from 2022 until now.
In addition to Tactics, she has curated exhibitions and performance programs such as Over Music, TV Commune, x-sound: John Cage and Nam June Paik(co-curated), Variations of the Moon, RhythmScape, April's Companion (a memorial exhibition for the second anniversary of the Sewol ferry tragedy), Extraordinary Phenomenon, Nam June Paik (co-curated), and #Art #Commons #Nam June Paik (the 10th anniversary exhibition of the Paik Art Center, co-curated).
Kwonjin Cho
With an interest in curatorial research on art experiences in museums, she is conducting exhibitions, education, and public programs. Recently, she has been focusing on researching the realm of humans and non-humans between art, technology, and ethics. Her main exhibitions include Nam June Paik exhibition Something Like an Appleseed (2023), Reality Errors (2020), and the pavilion project The Moon is the Oldest Space (2016). In addition, there are <Nam June Paik Art Studies> (2022), <Nam June Paik, Fluxus Studies> (2021), and <NJP Creative> (2019 2020) organized as lectures and learning programs.
Heeseung Choi
Heeseung Choi is a curator and writer currently based in Seoul, South Korea. She worked as a curator at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (2015-2020) and at Doosan Gallery, a non-profit institution in Seoul (2020-2023). She was also a co-organizer of the Seoul-based curatorial initiative WESS (2019-2021). Currently, Choi is a guest curator at Billytown in The Hague, The Netherlands. She co-curated The Sea We Want to See Part 1 (Korea Foundation Gallery, 2024) and will soon present The Sea We Want to See Part 2 (Billytown, 2024).
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Humming Chorus
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Sep 12— Dec 15, 2024
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Curators Talk & Tour