§ Foreword

    Nam-June Paik's efforts to record the Pope's visit to the United States with his home video camera, brought him to renown as the founder of video art. As he is in fact Korean, it can be logically concluded that the great number of video artists in Korea are following in his footsteps. If this is the case, then what kind of work are Korean artists exactly making? Almost all Korean video artists are working through the medium of video installation, rendering a virtual god in terms of his influence over this field. The extensive video installations produced by artists from Paik to have offered the public much to see. In contrast to the installation format, single channel video works are presented through a monitor. As various techniques in this method of screening have already been capitalized upon by major mass media broadcasters, artists are professing a desire to explore new ways of presenting their works. I believe that in the artistic world, it is truly important not to question what has already been, but instead how to reconstitute and remake what already exist. With this in mind, we have planned this exhibition in order to cast light upon the works made through single channel video. In the preliminary discussions of this exhibition of video art works, we decided upon the title, "Teum". Through a comparison of the narratives of movies and the narratives of these art works we ask in what ways do they differ, and have made an effort to demonstrate through this exhibition the necessary production methods of video works. The three artists represented in this exhibition, Hwa-Young Park, Hyun-Suk Seo and Sung-Min Hong all show the possibilities of the infrequently used medium of single channel video through works produced independently and in collaboration with one another. I would like to extend a warm thankyou to the three for exhibiting, and also to Jooyeon Han who will oversee this exhibition.
                                                                          Sun Jung Kim, Chief Curator §