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Watching the Unseen . The Showcase of South Korean Moving Image
Watching the Unseen . The Showcase of South Korean Moving Image From March 27 to 29, we invite you to a program dedicated to video and art film from South Korea, prepared in collaboration with the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul (MMCA). Divided into six chapters, the program opens with a presentation of rarely shown works of early Korean video art from the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, including works by Hyunki Park and Soungui Kim. Most of the program is devoted to the younger generation of Korean artists. They use new technologies and popular culture, boldly experiment with AI, and at the same time draw heavily on animism and folklore, as well as being inspired by activist movements. Selected films reflect dramatic historical events, the political turbulence of recent years, and a belief in the therapeutic, healing power of art. The review consists of six program blocks at the KINOMUZEUM at the MSN, accompanied by a screening of Hayoun Kwon's VR work "489 Years" and a performance by Joowon Song, which takes the form of a walk with the artist through the museum building. The work "489 Years" concerns the Korean Demilitarized Zone, a buffer zone established in 1953 after the Korean War, a landscape that is inaccessible but deeply present in the consciousness of the Korean people. Song Joowon's performance "Walking Body" is based on an individual encounter between the artist and the audience, where a shared walk through the museum space is an invitation to a unique 1:1 shared experience that requires focus and attention. The cinema programs are thematic in nature, focusing on a selected issue, historical period, or individual practice. Block 1: Early Korean video art This is a historical collage consisting of works by Hyunki Park, Kangso Lee, Duckjun Kwak, and Kulim Kim from the 1960s and 1970s—artists who sought a new language for art, drawing on the energy of youth and counterculture. Block 2: Early Korean video art: Soungui Kim This is a cinematic retrospective of Soungui Kim, an artist who opened up the medium of video and performance to the experience of public space, allowing her works to be created in the rhythm and poetics of everyday life. Block 3: Contemporary agendas: history, nature, nation It consists of contemporary film works by Hyewon Kwon, the ikkibawiKrrr collective, Donghyun Gyon & Seajung Kwon, and Hayoun Kwon – characterized by calmness and focus; they concentrate on repressed stories, human and non-human beings whose voices are not heard in official narratives, recovering what is invisible. Block 4: Contemporary agendas: capital and labor This is a cinematic retrospective of a younger generation artist, Jeamin Cha, who focuses on aspects of life that are erased by the capitalist machine: physical labor, illness, care – thus inviting us to see what is visible but invisible. Block 5: Contemporary agendas: popular culture, games, new media It consists of films by young artists Yeoreum Jung, Ayoung Kim, and the Yagwang collective, whose work intertwines animation, gaming, pop culture references, and current socio-political content, testing contemporary media, which can also be an area of reflection, resistance, and new possibilities. Block 6: Contemporary agendas: ecological technology, community Focuses on the practice of Unmakelab—a collective exploring the links between artificial intelligence, economic growth, and ideas about the development of Asian societies—for whom technology is not just a tool, but a mirror reflecting shared aspirations and fears. The program "Watching the Unseen - The Showcase of South Korean Moving Image" was created in dialogue between MMCA curator Soojung YI in Seoul and MSN curator Sebastian Cichocki. It heralds a program exchange between MMCA and MSN, in cooperation with the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, in the coming years. The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (MMCA) is South Korea's main and largest museum dedicated to contemporary art, with four branches throughout the country. Its collection ranges from traditional media—painting, sculpture, and crafts – to contemporary works in the fields of design, architecture, video, performance, and interdisciplinary practices that reflect changes in Korean society, new technologies, social movements, and the climate. https://artmuseum.pl/en/events/cycles/watching-the-unseen-the-showcase-of-south-korean-moving-image