Artsonje Center

From September 2011 The BLACK SHEEP lecture series has a new home at Artsonje Center, Seoul. The program includes informal presentations from international art practitioners. The audience is invited to contribute to the discussions in a casual setting in the Hanok of Artsonje Center. The various lectures address a wide spectrum of topics, genres and artistic practices. In addition, all events will give insights into the personal background and relation to art education of the presenters.

The 1990s have witnessed the emergence of a new player in the art world: the curator. Who is this figure and what precisely is its function? Although by now curators are being poured out by academia on an almost industrial scale, there is hardly any systematic discourse about what curatorial discipline entails?beyond incessant networking or dreaming up half-baked exhibition concepts. Peppered with a modicum of personal experience, this seminar will attempt to nail down the elusive figure of the curator.

Roger M. Buergel, b. 1962 in West-Berlin, is a writer and conceives exhibitions. Trained as an artist at Vienna Art Academy, he curated with Ruth Noack e.g. Things we don’t understand (2000), The Government (2003-05), and served as Artistic Director of documenta 12 (2007). After teaching Art History at Art Academy Karlsruhe, he is now the Founding Director of Johann Jacobs Museum in Zurich (due to be opened in 2013). Buergel is the artistic director of Busan Biennale 2012.

Date : May 16, 2012 (Wed) 7:00-9:00 p.m.
Venue : Hanok of Artsonje Center
Lecturer : Roger M. Buergel
Admission Fee : 5,000 KRW
First-come, first-served tickets are for sale at 6:30 p.m.
Rsvp is not necessary, but seating is limited.
Inquiries : Samuso: 02 739 7098 / Artsonje Center 02 733 8945

*The above schedule may change depending on circumstances.*
*This BLACK SHEEP LECTURE will be presented in English. (with Korean interpretation)*

The Black Sheep Herd: Seho Ahn, Luchezar Boyadjiev, Roger M. Buergel, Seoung-Ho Cho, Sunah Choi, Michael Eddy, Charles Esche, Merv Espina, Andreas Fogarasi, Minoru Hatanaka, Heiner Holtappels, Adria Julia, Sabine Kacunko, Youngseop Kim, Jongheok Lee, Myung Seon Kim, Vera Lossau, Lynn Lu, Rita McBride, Bjørn Melhus, Klaus Mettig, Yong Soon Min, Simon Morley, Antonio Muntadas, Dan Perjovschi, Claudia Pestana, Sascha Pohle, Sean Snyder, Yoo Sunghoo, Quynh Vantu, Jun Yang, Je Yon, Piotr Zamojski

Quynh has explored these topics across the globe through various residencies and fellowships. Most recently she was a DAAD Scholar participating in Olafur Eliasson’s Institut fur Raumexperimente, a satellite studio and experimental educational platform for Eliasson’s students from the Univeristat der Kunste - Berlin. The institute fosters the unique opportunities for the cross pollination of ideas and inspirations by its location within Eliasson’s working studios.

THE BLACK SHEEP lecture #39 Charles Esche February 17, 2012(Fri)

The talk will move from the meta to the micro level, placing the activities of one northwest European museum in its particular context today when some very basic paradigms of culture and capital are shifting. It will look at how 'modern times' were constructed in the museum and how a re-examination of their assumptions is one of the urgent tasks of the contemporary art institution. The talk will also look at the potentiality of the art museum and its collections to introduce ways of storytelling that release other possibilities from the past into the present. The programs and policies at the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven will be the concrete examples of these how larger processes can be developed in detail.

THE BLACK SHEEP lecture #38 Yong Soon Min February 1, 2012(Wed)

Yong Soon Min will present a discussion of her work that engages interstices of the collective and the personal subjectivities that questions our critical positions. She has a diverse arts practice that is mostly mixed media installations and also includes curating and teaching. She will highlight projects including a video about North Korea that was shown at the 10th Havana Bienal, to an intimate work, “Overseas / at sea,” shown in Los Angeles last year. She will also discuss curatorial projects addressing Korean diaspora at the 4th Gwangju Biennial, an exhibition of Bahc Yiso’s Fallayavada and an examination of Korea’s and Vietnam’s relationship.

THE BLACK SHEEP lecture #37 Heiner Holtappels December 12, 2011(Mon)

Heiner Holtappels (*1951 in Krefeld, Germany) studied at the Staatliche Kunstakademie in Dusseldorf under K.O. Gotz and sat the state examination in fine arts, philosophy and art history. In addition to his function at the Netherlands Media Art Institute he is a senior lecturer in Autonomous Art at the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten in Arnhem. He is a member of the board of directors of the 5 Days Off Media Foundation, Dyne.org Foundation, Moois Media Foundation, Nan Hoover Foundation. He sits on the advisory boards of the Center of Art, Sangeorgiu de Mures and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest (both in Romania), and from 2000 through 2005 was chairman of the committee on Visual Art and Design for the Cultural Council in the Netherlands.
His lecture follows his personal biography (by images and words) and discuses the different aspects of visual art from his critical studies: Holtappels will talk about his work, the role of the academies, the lack of scientific research and developments of the arts in the past 50 years. From his perspective as director of the Dutch Institute for Media Art, he will describe the (Dutch) infrastructure of politics and economics. He will end his lecture with a discussion about the function of new media art.
The lecture will not be presented as a monologue but as a dialogue. Interruption requested! The lecture will be held in English. No Korean interpretation.

THE BLACK SHEEP lecture #36 Jun Yang November 10, 2011(Thr)

Jun Yang is an artist who grew up in Austria, but moved in the recent years to Taipei and Yokohama. He will talk about several of his projects - initiating a restaurant (ra'mien) in Vienna, building a garden (for the Museum of Contemporary Art Leipzig) or a hotel (at the same museum). Yang will also present his project "a contemporary art centre (taipei) - a proposal" which started as his contribution to the Taipei Biennial 2008 that later resulted in co-founding "Taipei Contemporary Art Center".

Jun Yang's work has been shown amongst others at the 51st Venice Biennial 2005 (Italy), Liverpool Biennial 2006 (UK), Manifest 4 2001 (the European Biennial, Germany) or International Documentary Film Festival Marseille (France, 2001). In Korea he has been participating in the Platform in Kimusa of Platform 2009 and Platform 2010: Projected Image; and most recently his work will be in the exhibition 《City Within the City》 due to open November 11th 2011

THE BLACK SHEEP lecture #35 Roger M.Buergel October 25, 2011(Tue)

Roughly a year before the opening of the Busan Biennale 2012, its artistic director Roger M. Buergel will explain his perspective on exhibition-making in general and learning in particular. Against the prevalent trends of knowledge-production and relational well-being in the arts, Buergel will explore the notions of cruelty and betrayal as, perhaps, indispensable elements of aesthetic learning. While today’s cultural conditions push the biennale-type exhibition slowly but surely into the direction of the art fair (a new model of art fair that is peppered with artistic interventions and political rhetorics), “Garden of Learning” (the coming Busan Biennale) will emphasize intangibles money can’t buy.

Artsonje Workshop & Screening

2011 6th Artsonje Workshop "Small Spaces in Mekong Region" December 2, 2011(Fri)

Under the title “Small Spaces in the Mekong Region,” the 2011 6th Artsonje Workshop invites the directors of four independent art spaces in Myanmar, Cambodia, and Vietnam to introduce their spaces and activities as well as the contemporary art scene in the Mekong region.

The longest river in Southeast Asia, the Mekong starts from the Tibetan Plateau and runs through China’s Yunnan province, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam, and serves as a main artery of transport and everyday life for the people living in the region. Among these countries, the directors of four independent art spaces in Myanmar, Cambodia, and Vietnam have been invited to offer their various perspectives on the art scene surrounding the Mekong region, which is at the confluence of many different cultures. Besides reflecting the sense of identity that is specific to the Mekong region, these art spaces are also interesting in that they are managed independently. The small spaces explore alternative practices to contemporary art each through their own unique program of exhibitions and activities. The 2011 6th Artsonje Workshop will serve as a first step to promote exchange and cooperation with contemporary art spaces in the Mekong region by offering an occasion to share thoughts on the direction of contemporary art spaces in Asia as well as explore the potential for future collaborations with Artsonje Center.

THE BLACK SHEEP lecture @ Artsonje Center

Artsonje Workshop & Screening