This lecture considers how the notion of
“experiment” emerged and transformed vis-à-vis rapidly changing socio-political
and material conditions in Korea during the late 1960s and early 1970s. During
this period of unprecedented modernization and urbanization conditioned by an
authoritarian regime, anti-communism, and state-driven nationalism, new form of
artistic practice like performance, film, installation and photography
proliferated alongside painting and sculpture. These experiments centered on
several core artist groups that actively organized publications and public
seminars in addition to exhibitions, exploring a diverse range of issues
including death and rebirth; the tension between the rural and the urban; the
breakdown of traditional socio-cultural hierarchies and subjectivities; and the
relationship between the body and space, and the individual and the
state.
This
presentation also introduces the practices of these seminal South Korean artists
who were not only pioneers in their experimental spirit but engaged with the
flourishing international contemporary art community in the decades following
the Second World War. Famously coined the “global village” by Marshall McLuhan,
this was an age of commercial flights, television sets, and man’s walk on the
moon, marked by the geopolitics of Cold War. This talk reimagines the art
historical landscape of this important period, studies of which are often
dominated by artists working in the U.S., Europe, and to an extent Japan and
Latin America. In doing so, it seeks to bring focus to the artists’ individual
experiences and responses to both local and international socio-political
conditions of the 1960s and the
1970s.
Kyung
An In her role as Assistant Curator, Asian Art at the Guggenheim, Dr.
Kyung An is currently organizing an exhibition on the avant-garde practices of
Korean artists of the 1960s and the 1970s at the Guggenheim Museum in
collaboration with the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea. She is also
on the curatorial team of two upcoming solo presentations on the artists Gego
and Sarah Sze. Previously, she provided key support for The Robert H. N. Ho
Family Foundation Chinese Art Initiative’s two commission-driven exhibitions,
Tales of Our Time (2016) and One Hand Clapping (2018), and the
internationally-touring Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World (2017).
In addition to exhibitions, Dr. An makes significant contributions to collection
growth through her role on Young Collectors Council and is also one of the
founding curators of the Asian Art Circle. She also advises on the Guggenheim
Abu Dhabi collection. At the Guggenheim, Dr. An is also the curatorial lead on
Teaching Asian Modern and Contemporary Art, an initiative supported by the
Freeman Foundation that aims to create teaching resources on works by Asian
artists in the museum’s collection. Dr. An has authored essays to important
publications on Korean artists such as Ha Chong-hyun, Lee Seung-taek, and
Meekyoung Shin. She has also contributed to the 58th Venice Biennale catalogue
and is a co-author of the book Who’s Afraid of Contemporary Art? (2017), which
has been translated into four languages. She received her BA, MA in art history
at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, where she also obtained
her doctorate in 2015.
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