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Minsuk Cho is a Korean architect and designer of this year's Serpentine Pavilion."We have a demanding role as architects, and I think movies are a good comparison: it's always so polarising – there are serious directors, versus blockbuster directors – but there is a way of doing both."Show notes:Eun-Me Ahn - Korean Choreographer Cities on the Move - exhibition curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist and You HanrouJang Young-Gyu - Korean musician and composer responsible for the 2024 Serpentine Pavilion's sound installation Heman Chong and archivist Renée Staal - collaborators on the 2024 Pavilion's “Library of Unread Books” Won Buddhism Wonnam Temple by MASS Studies Madang, traditional Korean courtyardReferences: Bruno Taut & Buckminster Fuller 2006 Serpentine Pavilion by Rem Koolhaas with Cecil Balmond 2010 Shanghai Expo Pavilion by MASS StudiesCrow's Eye View: The Korean Peninsula – 2014 Venice Biennale Korean Pavilion co-curated by Minsuk Cho Gottfried Semper's Four Elements of Architecture (1851)Eduard Glissant - Philosopher and poet from Martinique OM Ungers' 1978 essay on Berlin's Green Archipelago Bong Joon-ho - Korean director (Host, Ok-ja, Parasite)Park Chan-wook - Korean director (Old Boy, the Handmaiden, Decision to Leave) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Hear about the past of the magazine from founding editor Hannah Fink and current publisher and editor Elaine W. Ng; the cover of the present issue from Heman Chong; and the future of museums and the art market from curator Aric Chen, and gallerist Pascal de Sarthe.
Synopsis: in-between writing, performative writing, affect theory and ficto-criticism; continuously-searching movement; decentering ‘vision’, making room for other modes of encounter and perception; spaces, and holes and pauses. Characters (in order of appearance): Andrew Brooks, Beth Caird and Aodhan Madden, Kelly Fliedner, Benjamin Forster, Astrid Lorange, Sarah Rodigari, Stephanie Rosenthal, Adrian Heathfield, Gerry Bibby, Heman Chong, Eileen Myles, Rhiannon Newton, Della Pollack. Biennale of Sydney: Fan Fiction has been written for The Bureau of Writing, a collaborative writing program designed for artists and presented alongside the 20th Biennale in association with Artspace, Sydney.
What makes a good artist? Can creativity can be taught? What kind of education ups the ante for success in today’s global culture? These are some of the questions that were explored in this Intelligence Squared Asia debate in Singapore in January 2013. Singapore artist and curator Heman Chong and White Cube Asia Director Graham Steele proposed the motion. It was opposed by British artist Michael Craig-Martin and American art critic Blake Gopnik. The debate was chaired by Georgina Adam, editor-at-large of the Art Newspaper and FT art market columnist. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Phantoms of Asia: Contemporary Awakens the Past is the first large-scale exhibition of contemporary art organized by the Asian Art Museum. And 2012 marks the inaugural year of Asian Contemporary Art Week-SF (ACAC). Join the Asian Art Museum and ACAC to kick off both events in a special "Day of Dialogue." Artists whose works are included in Phantoms of Asia discuss emerging themes in contemporary art, creating contemporary work for a traditional art museum, and the challenges of producing site-specific work. Featured artists include: Heman Chong, Jompet, Jagannath Panda, Adeela Suleman, Charwei Tsai, Adrian Wong, and Takayuki Yamamoto. Panel II: "On Location: Time and Place" Artists Heman Chong, Adeela Suleman, Adrian Wong, and Takayuki Yamamoto join moderator Hou Hanru, San Francisco Art Institute's director of exhibitions and public programs, in a lively conversation on how sensorial, cultural, historical, geopolitical, and other experiences of different locales in Asia serve as a rich source of ideas and inspiration.
Musée de la Danse: Expo Zéro is a living exhibition created by renowned French choreographer Boris Charmatz for his groundbreaking Musée de la Danse (Dancing Museum) in Rennes, France, and now being re-conceived for New York City as part of Performa 11. Musée de la Danse: Expo Zéro is an exhibition without any artwork, but with artists. It includes no objects, photographs, sculptures, or installations. Rather, it is comprised of completely empty rooms filled by the gestures, projects, bodies, stories, and dances which visitors will both see and imagine. In this way, it is truly a “museum of dance,” a radical new way of looking at the history and future of that most ephemeral of art forms, through a unique live experience that each visitor will have with an extraordinary cast of people and performers inhabiting a seemingly blank gallery space. For Musée de la Danse: Expo Zéro, Charmatz has selected ten international figures from contemporary dance, visual art, architecture, philosophy, and performance theory and criticism to be “in residence” at the project site for a three-day “think tank.” Participants include: Alex Baczynski-Jenkins (dancer/choreographer), Eleanor Bauer (dancer/choreographer), Heman Chong (visual artist/curator), Jim Fletcher (actor), Lenio Kaklea (dancer/choreographer), Jan Liesegang (architect), Valda Setterfield (dancer/actress), Marcus Steinweg (philosopher), and Fadi Toufiq (writer/artist). Following the think tank, Musée de la Danse: Expo Zéro will open to the public for three days during museum hours, at which time visitors can be led on specially guided tours by one or more of the participants. Equal parts artistic project, institutional platform, and political proposition, Musée de la Danse: Expo Zéro will undoubtedly have a lasting impact on not only the New York City dance scene, but on the larger culture as well. Co-curated by Boris Charmatz and Martina Hochmuth. Lead Curator for Performa: Lana Wilson.
Heman Chong imagines a future of dystopian stillness with "Calendars (2020--2096)," an installation of 1001 photos, each a calendar page capturing a moment of complete emptiness in today's bustling areas of Singapore. View this work for yourself at the Asian Art Museum during the exhibition, "Phantoms of Asia: Contemporary Awakens the Past" (on view from May 18-September 2, 2012). For more information: http://www.asianart.org/phantoms