SASG Residency Week 9
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On Friday I visited Seongbuk Art Pumping Station to see the closing party of Peach Pitch Party. They exhibited videos and interactive pieces as an outcome of workshops of their month-long event. A virtual-reality (or mixed-reality) piece by Park Dong Joon immerses a user in a playground which is based on the floor plan of the art center. There were also videos of performance pieces: one is a site-specific participatory performance drawing shapes with bodies and the other is using artificial intelligence for speech to text to play with glitch. During the ceremony, there was a performance by Noddy from Modular Seoul.
On the second floor of the art center, there was an exhibition “Time of Comfort” by Um A Long. The pieces are made of things that the artist found on streets. He fixes TV monitors and bends records to make sculptures of animal. He plays with the composition and subtlety to create comfortable but also fragile situations; for example, the root of plants in the space are cut, which represents the history of the artist, who moved several times in Seoul city. A projector shows images of the US, where he wanted to immigrate in his childhood.
On Sunday, I visited a presentation by Gloria, an artist in residence at Seoul Dance Center. We met at the workshop by Doris and Boris in August, and I was curious to know more about her project. She talked about the history of club culture and dance as well as the influence of online video platforms such as Youtube and Instagram. She collected plenty of videos for this sharing and the presentation closed with watching a tutorial video of shuffle steps and we danced together.
Then I went to Space One Gallery in Shinheung Market, which used to be a traditional market near Itaewon, but currently is occupied with galleries and cafes. SASG residency artists Liza and Julia participated in the event “Intersections of Common Space and Time” at the gallery. The event is meant to bring people together in this neighborhood, which is now a mix of old stores and modern restaurants. They prepared German popsicles and gave them for free in a truck parked at a 5-way intersection near the market. The event was a great success and passers-by and local people enjoyed the popsicles.
