Curator Talk with Nathalie Boseul Shin
* Date: Wednesday, Oct 13, 2021 @ 8PM (EST)
* Venue: Zoom
* RSVP Link: https://forms.gle/gh3WsXFkPSUSQhQJ7
* RSVP deadline: Oct. 10
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The Embassy of the Republic of Korea and the Korean Cultural Centre is pleased to host a Curator Talk with Nathalie Boseul Shin, the curator of “Road Show”, on Wednesday, October 13, 2021 at 8 PM (EST).
Nathalie Boseul SHIN is chief curator of Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul. She studied philosophy at Ewha Woman’s University and aesthetics at Hongik University (M.A). Currently, she is a Ph.D candidate in Hongik University. Since 1997, she started her curatorial career in Korea, engaging various exhibition planning and art projects. In 2000, she began as a curator with an expertise of media art after working for art center nabi. Further, she developed her experience at Seoul International Media Art Biennale 2004, leading exhibition team as manager. She has been working at Total Museum of Contemporary Art since 2007. She curated Muntadas: Asian Protocols, News after the News (Dan Perjovschi), Postcapical Archive: 1989-2001 (Daniel G. Andujar), Danish Video Art Exhibition Subtle Whispering, etc. Since 2010, she has been organizing various annual international projects such as Roadshow, Playground in island (Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia), the show must go on.
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You are invited to: Cities of Korea (Video Art)
https://kccincanada.com/video-art/
You are invited to the cities of Korea!
Nathaile Boseul Shin (Chief Curator of Total Museum)
It has been 10 years since I first started a traveling project with artists under the name “Road Show” in 2011. In the meantime, I drove down National Route 7 from Naeseong Stream, a branch of the Nakdong River, to Eulsuk Island (2011), passed Jeju Island (2012) and Baengnyeong Island (2013), went from Pohang to Goseong, where it is possible to see North Korea in person, and went to Namdo from Pohang to Yeosu. While focusing on traveling around the Korean Peninsula, I also visited northeastern India, Rwanda, Bhutan, and Malaysia where met artists and curators. I rediscovered society and history from this experience. In 2019, I visited 8 cities in China where the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea had been located to celebrate the 100th anniversary of its establishment. “Roadshow” had been scheduled to continue in 2020 to further understand history properly; however, all plans were suspended due to the onset of COVID-19. I thought I could travel whenever I wanted, but it's been almost two years since it is not able to.
At the point where "Roadshow" stopped, I received an exciting invitation "You are invited to: Cities of Korea". Though it is hard to go on a trip right now, I would like to share the new aspects of the city, traces of its history, and the scenery of the city I saw while traveling with artists through work. One journey began in Jeju with Minjung Kim through The Red Filter is Withdrawn, which tells the sad story of the incident in Jeju on April 3rd which is hidden behind beautiful nature. Passing through Byounglae Park Zeboriskie Point which tracks modern Korean history, centering on the small dock of Gunsan, "Zabo-Sun-Chang", through Daejeon Station concerning the memories of Hagimoto Michiyuki who lived in a railroad employee residence in Daejeon during Japan’s occupation of Korea. This leads to Jeamin Cha’s Fog and Smoke. While other works mentioned earlier describe stories of cities related to Korean history, Fog and Smoke is close to illustrating the present stories. The video depicts an abandoned construction site in the Songdo International Business District in Incheon, which had been halted due to the global financial crisis and an economic recession in the real estate industry. This story follows the last fisherman of the new city and a tap dancer and tells the story of the other side of development. If the journey so far has been a little heavy or difficult, I recommend Suwan Park & Sunggun Jang’s Cityscope/Microscape. This collaborative work by Suwan Park, who has mainly worked on the distortion of architectural patterns through photography and video work, and Sunggun Jang, who was the base of the Bamseom Pirates, makes you feel like traveling through the landscape of urban buildings.
[Media artists’ works]
* KIM Minjung, “The red filter is withdrawn.” Single-channel video, 00:11:40, 2020
* PARK Byounglae, Zeboriskie Point, Three-channel video, 00:09:53, 2011
* PARK Swan Park&JANG Sunggun , Cityscope/Microscape, Single-channel video, 00:15:00, 2021
* SHIN Mijung, Daejeon station, Single-channel video, 00:15:10, 2020
* CHA Jeamin, Fog and Smoke, Single-channel video, 00:20:00, 2013
* Road Show: Pohang to Yeosu, Single-channel video, 00:30:09, 2017 (Participated artist: Nathalie Boseul Shin, Yoonsuk Choi, KDK, Kyounghee Noh, Sean Roh, Gihun Noh, Soun Hong, Jinhee Kim, Jungwoo Lee, Ryan Taesung Lee)