4th Art Lecture at Artsonje

The Curator as Creator

• Date: April 1, 2011 (Fri), 4:00-5:30 p.m.
• Venue: Art hall, B1, Artsonje Center
• Lecturer: Jens Hoffmann (Director, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts at the California College of the Arts)
• Admission: Free
• Reservations: From March 14 at 9am, please email press@samuso.org with the following information - name and phone number
• Inquiries: samuso 82 2 739 7098 / Artsonje Center 82 2 733 8945
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For the Art Lecture at Artsonje to be held on April 1, 2011, Jens Hoffmann, Director of the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts at the California College of the Arts and co-curator of the 2011 Istanbul Biennale, will give his first lecture in Korea.

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Platform 2010 “Projected Image”

LECTURE & ARTIST TALK

• Time: November 3 – 19, 2010 (4pm, 5.30pm except Mondays)
  8 Lectures, 2 Artist Talks
  Platform Website, Platform Blog
• Lecturer: Etienne Sandrin, Tobias Berger, Youngchul Lee, Tyler Cann, Yukie Kamiya, Hyun-Suk Seo
• Venue: Art Hall, Artsonje Center
• Ticket:
  One-day ticket – 3,000 won (including Screening, Exhibition and Lecture)
  Five-day ticket – 10,000 won
  *Seats are on a first-come, first-served basis

Platform 2010 “Projected Image”, invites curators and scholars to give lectures on each screening program and some of the participating artists to talk on their works.

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3^rd Art Lecture At Artsonje

“What are the current needs?: Possible differences between Kunstverein(art club) and Kunsthalle(exhibition hall)”

• Date: September 16, 2010 (Thu), 4:00-5:30 p.m.
• Venue: Art Hall, B1, Artsonje Center
• Lecturer: Yilmaz Dziewior (Director of Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria)
• Admission: Free
• Capacity: 230 pax (Reservation required by e-mail to press@samuso.org)
• Inquiries: samuso 02 739 7098 / Artsonje Center 02 733 8945
  

For the third program of ART LECTURE AT Artsonje, Director of the Kunsthaus Bregenz Yilmaz Dziewior will give his first lecture in Korea on the various forms of curating in contemporary art. In particular, he will compare the systematic differences between Kunstverein(art club) and Kunsthalle(exhibition hall) in an effort to examine the needs of the art world today.

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2^nd Art Lecture At Artsonje

Towards a curatorial practice

• Date: April 2, 2010 (Fri), 4:00-5:30 p.m.
• Venue: Art Hall, B1, Artsonje Center
• Lecturer: Eungie Joo (Keith Haring Director and Curator of Education and Public Programs at the New Museum, New York)
• Admission: Free
• Capacity: 250 pax (Reservation required by e-mail to press@samuso.org)
• Inquiries: samuso 02 739 7098 / Artsonje Center 02 733 8945
  

The second edition of Art Lecture at Artsonje will welcome Eungie Joo, commissioner of the Korean Pavilion at the 53rd Venice Biennale and currently Keith Haring Director and Curator of Education and Public Programs at the New Museum in New York. She will discuss about the curatorial practice today through her recent activities and projects.

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1^st Artsonje Art Lecture 2009

Learning to Play the Instrument: On Curating and the Institution

• Date : Wed., Sept. 9, 2009, 4:00-5:30 p.m.
• Venue: Art Hall, B1, Artsonje Center
• Lecturer: Doryun Chong (Associate Curator, Department of Painting and Sculpture, the Museum of Modern Art, New York(MoMA))
• Discussant: Tobias Berger (Chief Curator of the Nam June Paik Art Center)
• Admission Fee : Free
• Capacity : 250 Reservations Required via e-mail, press@samuso.org
• Inquires : Artsonje Center 02 733 8945 / SAMUSO: T.739-7098
  

The 2009 art lecture will be given by Doryung Chong, recently appointed a curatorial position at the Museum of Modern Art(MoMA) in New York. Chong’s lecture will be followed by a short conversation with Tobias Berger, Chief Curator of the Nam June Paik Art Center, and then by a question-and-answer session with the audience.

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Platform 2009

Platform 2009 Public Program 4

CONFERENCE ON PLATFORM

• Speaker: Sunjung Kim, Mami Kataoka, Sulki & Min, Nathalie Viot, Sarah Bond, Nicolaus Schafhausen
• Date: Wednesday, September 2, 2009, 2-5pm
• Venue: Arthall B1, Artsonje Center
• Admission Fee: Free

Platform’s artistic director, co-curator, participating curators and artists from each section will present their unique vision on where contemporary art is heading in relation to their role in the exhibition. Nicolaus Schafhausen will also address the issue of new institutionalism with a case study of his visiting curator program at Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam, Netherlands.

Platform 2009 Public Program 3

Artist Talk: Catherine Opie

• Date: Fri. August 21, 2009, 3-5pm
• Venue: Arthall B1, Artsonje Center
• Lecturer: Catherine Opie
• Admission Fee: Free
• Curated by SAMUSO:
• Hosted by Artsonje Center
• Supported by Hanjin Shipping
  

Catherine Opie will introduce the body of her work which investigates the issues of community, cultural identity, gender, etc. through the diverse genres of photography such as portraits, landscapes, and cityscapes. From her early works which dealt with transgender issues and performance artists to her landscape photography of Minneapolis, LA, and New York, she has shown great insight into how a community is created and defined. The lecture will be an occasion to hear about how her work has evolved.

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Platform 2009 Public Program 2

Public Art: Temporary Public Project of Art Institution
by Ralph Rugoff (Director, Hayward Gallery in London)

• Date: Thu, May 7, 2009, 16pm - 18pm
• Venue: Arthall B1, Artsonje Center

Introduced are public projects of Hayward Gallery taken place outside the gallery’s walls to engage the public. These cases which have taken various forms free from the conventional exhibitions will show lively interaction of the public with contemporary art.

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Public Program 1

Workshop for New Institution

The new concept of museum as critical, alternative and participatory institution will be explored through diverse examples and suggestions. Andrea Phillips introduces Exquisite Corpse, a practical proposal for a new Kunsthalle by Philipp Misselwitz and Nikolaus Hirsch commissioned by Curating Architecture. Peter Jenkinson questions the validity and role of new cultural institutions while the 21^st century’s art and culture permeate into public spaces both real and virtual, and argues for the re-engineering of the art institutions in accordance with new philosophies and practices, from both institutions and public. Stephanie Rosenthal illustrates the importance of audience participation through examples of Sounthbank Centre’s outdoor public art projects, programs of indoor learning and participation, and Hayward Touring Program. Young-whan Bae presents his past and ongoing public art projects to reflect on the role of artist in social participation and to offer a new direction of public art with a clear, practical purpose and a process of deliberate preparation and realization

Date: Wednesday, March 25, 2009, 10:30 – 16:00
Venue: Conference Room (3^rd floor), Gongju Cityhall

Public Art: Architecture and Participation

This symposium discusses the notion of public art, the relations between art and architecture and the significance of participation in art. Focusing on works and art activities of Korean contemporary artists including Mixrice, Chan-Kyong Park, and Young In Hong, Su-Mi Kang discusses dialectical possibilities how art can achieve public properties while contributing to communities by ‘intervening/participating’ in the public fields going beyond private and aesthetic dimensions. Stephanie Rosenthal examines the possibility of “art as life,” as articulated by Allan Kaprow, the pioneer of “Happening” and the value of audience participation through Kaprow’s work. Hyungmin Pai takes Pajubookcity as a study for investigating the possibility of how architecture and urban design may function in the creation and continuous transformation of identity and community in contemporary urban formations. Andrea Phillips suggests art institutions as places in which democracy can be performed through both the actions of artists and curators that encourage the “public” to perceive and act, exemplifying the artistic and architectural practices of Eastside Projects, in Birmingham, UK. Peter Jenkinson speculates on the notion of “public” in public art by presenting a variety of projects in UK including Channel 4 Big Art Project in the City of Derry in Northern Ireland.

Date: Friday, March 27, 2009, 11:00 – 17:00
Venue: Arthall (B1), Artsonje Center

Lounge Talk

Artists present their artistic practices in an informal way to the public at the lounge of Artsonje Center. Lounge Talk, which is presented in a friendly way, will offer chances to communicate with the public more profoundly.

Venue: Lounge 1F, Artsonje Center