In accordance with its ‘Post-Museum’ vision, the Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA) (Director Kim Hong-hee) has been emphasizing contemporality and encouraged itself to meet with other genres such as film, design, and architecture. As part of its efforts to materialize the ‘Post-Museum’ vision, SeMA is opening the Project Gallery as a space for alternative and experimental contemporary art and holding Video Fever: Screening, Live Performance and Talk, organized by the Media Collection of SeMA, to commemorate the new gallery’s opening, between July 30 and September 1, 2013.
Video Fever: Screening, Live Performance and Talk will present the familiar medium of videos, which were introduced as a mass media vehicle in the ‘40s and ’50s, and have been widely used in various fields of our daily life. Videos only began to be established as an independent art genre in the late 1960s. Compared to traditional media, video art depends more on technology, and has been developed into various formats along with the development of technology. This program generally introduces video art and its development by screening the single channel videos of the four world-famous artists and it aims to widen viewers’ understanding of video art.
For the screening, four video works are selected among the media collection of SeMA ‘Point of View: An Anthology of the Moving Image’(2003) which contains the works of the eleven world-famous video artists as well as interviews on the process of video art production. The program presents single channel video works by a number of artists including Gary Hill, who investigates videos as a new form of writing in the relationship between words and electronic images; Joan Jonas, who chooses videos as a means of expressing her performance; Pipilotti Rist, who raises questions about sex, the female body, and gender differences in modern society through aerial music and the installation of projected images; and Isaac Julien, whose work as a performative documentary tells stories about self-identity (black and gay) and creates a new space via multi-screen projections. Along with the showing of the single channel videos, interviews with internationally known curators Dan Cameron and Hans Ulich Obrist will be presented in order to assist visitors’ understanding of the artists and their works. With the works and the interviews, there will be additional programs prepared such as live performances of emerging artists and talks on video art in order to examine the meaning and influence of video art in the context of contemporary art.
6pm Tue 30th July / 6pm Sun 18th August
Site-Specific, Uh
800/40
4pm Wed 7th August
From Video Art to Expanded Cinema – Dongyeon Koh(Art History)
4pm Wed 14th August
Video Art and Performance – Haeju Kim(Independent Curator)
4pm Sat 31st August
Cultural Critical Issues in Video Art – Lim Shan(Professor of Dongduk Women’s University)
