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What did the 11th Gwangju Biennale do?
The yearlong run of the 11th Gwangju Biennale—The Eighth Climate: What Does Art Do? has come to an end. Officially beginning with a Monthly Gathering organized in collaboration with the Gwangju-based art collective and “local curatorial associate” Mite-Ugro in December 2015 and the first Infra
The Mite-Ugro Art and Theory Book Collection
One month after the official ending of the 11th Gwangju Biennale, the donation-based Mite-Ugro Art and Theory Book Collection consists of more than 600 volumes. Friends, peers and colleagues have generously donated books which are kept in the Mite Ugro project space in the Daein Market, Gwangju. A r
Tyler Coburn's GB11 Commission acquired by Seodaemun Museum of Natural History, Seoul
We are happy to announce that Tyler Coburn's GB11 Commission Ergonomic Futures was acquired by Seodaemun Museum of Natural History in Seoul. Tyler Coburn’s Ergonomic Futures begins with a question: Is it possible, at some point in the future, that our bodies experience such a degree of evolutio
GB11 Publication by Metahaven on sale online
The first of two publications of GB11, titled The Eighth Climate: What Does Art Do?, it provides an introduction to the work of each participating artist, an introduction to this edition of the Gwangju Biennale, Q&As between artists and curators exploring possible and multiple ways of reading the wo
Infra-School - lecture by Ingela Ihrman at RAT SCHOOL
Saturday, 5 November, 8.00 PM Ingela Ihrman's practice moves freely between performance art, installations, and writing. Costumes and staged situations are reoccurring elements in her presentations, bringing creatures into life while i.e. giving birth or blooming. Her work is characterized by tac
SNUAC-Gwangju Biennale Workshop - Concrete Responses: What Does Art Do?
Tuesday 1 November 11:00-18:00 Gwangju Biennale Exhibition Hall, Geosigi Hall The workshop “Concrete Responses: What Does Art Do?” gather scholars, GB participating artists and curators, and other cultural producers to share articulating responses to the question, “what does art do?” a
Inter-Asia and the Other Worlds: Wild Connectivity
Inter-Asia Biennale Forum, organized with the 11th Gwangju Biennale as part of its Infra-School program On the occasion of the finissage of the 11th Gwangju Biennale, an Inter-Asia Biennale Forum co-organized by Inter-Asia School and the 11th Gwangju Biennale will take place over three days fro
You buy a collection of frogs - Bernd Krauß by Candace Goodrich (CuratorLab)
The different modes of transportation that we utilize while traveling to a foreign land, unequivocally dictate the level and type of experience and engagement we have with a place and culture. On the surface, the seemingly minuscule distinction between an air-conditioned taxi verse a bus that fills
I feel like a mobile partisan artist - Babi Badalov in conversation with Domna Gounari (CuratorLab)
Babi Badalov’s Car-Pet-Alism installation spreads all the way through the corridor leading towards the 2nd floor of the 11th Gwangju Biennale main exhibition space. Hundreds of multi-sized paper and fabric cut outs, photos, personal objects, intelligently manipulated words and phrases with strong
United to what? - On a new film commission by Ahmet Öğüt for GB11 by Florin Bobu (CuratorLab)
I encountered the latest work of Ahmet Öğüt United-for the first time in Gwangju, in the frame of the 11th Gwangju Biennale The Eighth Climate (What does art do?), displayed in the public space on an advertising billboard. I thought about it and saw it again in my hotel room in Stockholm and once
In Focus: The off-site artist commissions of GB11 - by Jérôme Malpel (CuratorLab)
The Eight Climate (What does art do?) biennale takes place in the South Korean city of Gwangju. The city became an important and powerful location in the struggle for democracy in the country, where peaceful demonstrations were suppressed by military forces, their political uprising leading to a vio
The material world is very existential - Ane Graff in conversation with Madelene Gunnarsson (CuratorLab)
One of my most enriching encounters during the 11th Gwangju Biennale, 2016, was meeting Norwegian artist Ane Graff who exhibited the work “Mineral Breath, Metal Mouth”. Her work is an ongoing artistic investigation in the nature of matter and how we understand and experience the physical world a
Uninhabitable spaces for contemporary art - Céline Condorelli in conversation with Nikki Kane and Christine Langinauer (CuratorLab)
For her 11th Gwangju Biennale commission, artist Céline Condorelli has occupied in-between spaces in the exhibition areas, a balcony and an entryway between galleries in the Biennale Hall. Here, she presented two of three new works made for the Biennale, each of which creates an active, ‘living
Q/A with Ayesha Sultana by Saima Usman (CuratorLab)
Ayesha Sultana was born in Jessore, Bangladesh and is now based in Dhaka. She received her Post-Graduate Diploma in Art Education from Beaconhouse National University, Lahore Pakistan, in 2007-2008. As a constantly evolving process, Ayesha’s work could not be identified as belonging to a single ar
Interview with Babi Badalov - video by the Gwangju Biennale International Curator Course
BABI BADALOV CAR-PET-ALISM, 2016 We have followed artist Babi Badalov during his on-site realization of CAR-PET-ALISM. The work is a collection of images forming a large-scale wall installation, where fragmented and combined words in many languages are juxtaposed with pieces of painted textile
"Dawn Breaks" by Jewyo Rhii and Jihyun Jung - video by the Gwangju Biennale International Curator Course
JEWYO RHii + JIHYUN JUNG DAWN BREAKS, 2016 This short video followssequences from rehearsals of Dawn Breaks, project by artists Jewyo Rhii and Jihyun Jung. This multiple-installation project, occupying both inside and the outside spaces of the Biennale structure, required an intense and fascinat
Fernando García-Dory's "The Lament of The Newt" - video by the Gwangju Biennale International Curator Course
FERNANDO GARCÍA-DORY + DULE NALE THE LAMENT OF THE NEWT, 2016 The video shows the beginning of the production of The Lament of the Newt, a collective performance in defense of the last rice field in Gwangju. Fernando García-Dory, Hyun Yeoung-Eun, and Lim Inza, together with the Hansaebong Dur
Monthly Gathering - October
Program: 20 October 4-5pm The Art Work in Focus group discussion of Toxic, Opaque, To Valerie Solanas and Marilyn Monroe in Recognition of their Desperation by Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz. At Biennale Exibition Hall (G5) 21 O
Online streaming from Flo Kasearu House Museum's garden
Follow this link to accompany the works at Flo Kasearu's House Museum Garden, where South Korean gardeners are undertaking a collective project. Stay tuned! flokasearu.eu
Meditation: Ingela Ihrman and Gwangju Federation for Environmental Movement
During the opening days, artist Ingela Ihrman met up with collective A Drop of Water and a Trap of Earth, from the Gwangju Federation for Environmental Movement to discuss her research and work on view at GB11.
Mediation: Doug Ashford meeting with Gwangju Trauma Center
As a part of the Mediation program of GB11, Doug Ashford gathered with members from the Gwangju Trauma Center for a conversation around his installation, focused on the experience of the 5.18 victims' family.
"New Eelam" by Christopher Kulendran Thomas on view at ACC
All over the world, citizenship – the right to belong somewhere – is tied to specific nations. But what if technology could allow a more liquid citizenship beyond national borders? New Eelam, by Christopher Kulendran Thomas, is a long-term artwork in the form of a startup – a real-estate techn
Download Tommy Støckel's "The Gwangju Rocks" emoji board
The Gwangju Rocks are based on actual rocks found in the city of Gwangju – placed as “nature sculptures” in the city’s gardens and parks. The artist made 3D scans of a selection of six rocks, simplified and animated each to appear as a digital character with individual behaviour and distinct
Tyler Coburn's "Ergonomic Futures" short story website
Tyler Coburn's "Ergonomic Futures" 2016— comprises a series of ergonomic furniture, designed for imagined future humans, available for use in the exhibition area. Accompanying this furniture is a website of short stories, www.ergonomicfutures.com, which mimics the structure of Aristotle’s “gr
Mediation: Ann Lislegaard meet up with the Gwangju Science High School for gifted
On the sequence of her participation at GB11, artist Ann Lislegaard met up with the Gwangju Science High School for gifted to discuss science fiction in relation to the works on view at the exhibition halls.
Maria lind on Nazgol Ansarinia
Maria lind on Nazgol Ansarinia in Art Review Summer 2016
Forum "To All the Contributing Factors" on stream online
To All the Contributing Factors is a forum organized as part of the 11th Gwangju Biennale, titled The Eighth Climate (What Does Art Do?), discussing works by small- and medium-scale art organizations across the world with regards to questions of value, continuity, and scale, and imagining acts in co
Independent publishing meeting at Nokdu bookshop
Independent publishing meeting at Dora Garcia's installation "Nokdu bookshop for the living and the dead" moderated by Hana Park from McGuffin cafe. Sunday 4 September
Maria Lind on Flo Kasearu
Maria Lind on Flo Kasearu in Art Review March 2016
Maria Lind on Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz
Maria Lind on Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz, in Art Review September 2015
Maria Lind in conversation with Marie Kølbæk Iversen
Maria Lind in conversation with Marie Kølbæk Iversen Kaleidoscope Magazine
Maria Lind in conversation with Trevor Paglen
Maria Lind in conversation with Trevor Paglen Kaleidoscope Magazine
United - a new film commission by Ahmet Öğüt for GB11
Ahmet Öğüt United, 2016, two channel HD animation, one channel of the two-channel animation shown in a pubic screen in Gwangju, the other channel of which is being simultaneously shown Alt Art Space and YAMA in Istanbul, 1’ each. trailer:
Event Program of 'Master Plan for Duamdong'
Apolonija Sustersic & Dari Bae invite us to the program of events they will develop at Nuribom Community Center! Please come and join the 1st event scheduled this Saturday 27th August! Program of events: [b] Sat 27 August 2016 16:00-18:00 Presentation of the Master Plan for Duamdong by
Annie Lai Kuen Wan at work - video by the Gwangju Biennale International Curator Course
ANNIE LAI KUEN WAN EVERYDAY A RAINBOW, 2016 The video follows Lai Kuen Wan during the production process of her artwork Everyday a Rainbow. We followed the artist within the surroundings of the Biennale Exhibition Hall, as she was shopping and searching for objects of everyday life, taking meas
Tommy Støckel in residency
Berlin-based artist Tommy Støckel is in residency in town building the installation The Gwangju Rocks, one of the new commissions of GB 11. This work comprises a series of rock characters inspired by the artificial nature and rock fixtures in the city of Gwangju. In Gwangju, as well as in many o
A walk around an imaginary lake - curated walk July
Hainuwele myth of Kyungyang dike was the title of the path drawn by Nam Soo Kim (Choreography critic from Seoul), on this edition of the curated walks at Monthly Gathering. Walking around the half moon shaped Kyungyang lake in central Gwangju, which disappeared many decades ago, a group of 25 atten
Mundus Imaginalis - Maria Lind on the cheeky and imaginal institutional critique of Walid Raad
in Art Review January 2016 "Have you ever heard of a world that exists between the natural and the spiritual worlds? One that mediates between sensory reality and the mystical realm of the divine? This intermediate world welcomes imaginative consciousness and allows cognitive imagination to thriv
Dirty Fingers, Sticky Shoes - Maria Lind on Nadia Belerique
Maria Lind on the return of the artist’s hand in post-Internet art, from Art review October 2015 issue "There is a steep increase in traces of sticky fingers on contemporary art. Especially in the art that has been placed under the rather strange label of ‘post-Internet’. Those traces are
Networked Nations
In the second of her ‘Gwangju Series’, the biennale’s artistic director, Maria Lind, looks at an idea of homeland as a distributed network. In Art Review April 2016
Maria Lind in conversation with Joungmin Yi
Maria Lind in conversation with Joungmin Yi Kaleidoscope Magazine
Donate your books:
We are creating an art and theory book collection for Mite-Ugro project space, and ask our friends and colleagues to bring/send publications. The books will be collected and registered in an online database (Blog) at Mite-Ugro, with titles translated into Korean. After one year the collection wo
Maria Lind on Jeamin Cha's work in Art Review, May issue
"There is no lack of traumatic events, big and small, in the world.Both today and through history. Thirty-one people killed in the recent Brussels bombings and yesterday 60 casualties in a Lahore park, most of them women and children. Not to speak of the innumerable cases – most of them likely to
Program of events at Nokdu Bookshop for the Living and the Dead
Monday 29 August 15:00–17:30 Lectures by Dora García and Kim Sang-yoon on the Nokdu bookstore project and a conversation moderated by Professor Seo Ki Moon, as part of Infra-School at Chonnam University College of Art, 77 Yongbong-ro, Buk-gu, Gwangju Tuesday 30 August 14:00–18:00
Talk at Nuribom Community Center
Saturday 3 September 5pm at Nuribom Community Center parallel to Apolonija Sustersic and Dari Bae's program Elke Krasny is a curator, cultural theorist, and writer. She is professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria. Her theoretical and curatorial work is firmly rooted in socially eng
'Information Skies' premiere online
'Information Skies' a GB11 new commission by Metahaven will premiere online this Thursday 1September at 1pm Korean time at informationskies.com
'Lament of the Newt'
Fernando Garcia-Dory is presenting a performance at the Hansaebong Agriculture & Eco-Park, as his new commission to GB11. Performance hours: September 3rd 16:30–17:30 / 18:30–19:30 Sunday 4th 17:00–18:00 address: at Hansaebong Agriculture & Eco-Park, 932-1 Ilkok-dong, Buk-gu, Gwang
Curated Walk in May as part of the Monthly Gathering
Every month, as part of the Monthly Gathering, practitioners from various discipline such as sociology, history, urban studies curate different walking paths through the city and suburbs to experience and engage with other urgencies in Gwangju city. So far it has been transformative experience for t
Monthly Gathering - Curated walk September
Artist in Residency Bernd Krauss was leading this Month's edition of curated walk, in the Mudeung area.
Fernando Garcia-Dory's
The collective performance and agricultural ritual "Lament of the Newt" (2016) by Fernando Garcia-Dory was presented last weekend in Gwangju. In collaboration with DureNale from Hansaebong Dure, Hee-Sang Noh, Mi-ja Park, Eun-Sil Jeong, You-kyeung Cho, Seon-nim Kim, and Young-dae Kim, and co-ordinate
May Mothers and Bik Van der Pol
Every Monday and Wednesday from 11:00-12:00 and 13:30-14:30 the May Mothers gather for exercise and leisure activities at Bik Van der Pol’s installation "How Does a Straight Line Feel?" (new commission 2016) at the Biennale exhibition hall (Gallery 3).
Monthly Gathering - September
The next Monthly Gathering starts this week. Program: Thursday 8 September 16:00 – 17:00 The Art Work in Focus group discussion of Medium Earth by The Otolith Group. At Biennale Exhibition Hall (Gallery 2) Friday 9 September 16:00 – 17:00 The Art Work in Focus group discussion of
