2014-02-14

Sohyun Ahn

Nam June Paik Art Center

This book is the catalogue of the exhibition (2012.2.7-6.16), that started from a question : what is the political nature of artists or what is the most artistic way of saying about a political situation? Even repeating or keeping actions seemingly imprudent and ineffective, artists are capable of producing sociopolitical meanings, just like a refrain which contributes to conveying subject without any description. This exhibition gathered the artists who just repeated something, but reveal critical points of view. Socio-political realities resurfaced through different type of repetitions by the participants: mixrice, Beom Kim, Melik Ohanian, Santiago Sierra, Soosung Lee, Ana Hušman, Francis Alÿs, Wan Lee, Sanghee Song, Nadia Kaabi-Linke. This book is including the images and the detailed descriptions of the exhibited works and the abstracted transcript of the Open Talks.

• Foreword – Manu Park (Director of Nam June Paik Art Center)
• Curatorial Statement – Sohyun Ahn (Curator of Nam June Paik Art Center)
• Works
  • mixrice
  • Beom Kim
  • Melik Ohanian
  • Santiago Sierra
  • Soosung Lee
  • Ana Hušman
  • Francis Alÿs
  • Wan Lee
  • Sanghee Song
  • Nadia Kaabi-Linke
• Open Talk
  • Artist in a World without Pity
  • Before the Art System
• A Political Economy Shelf for Artist
• Performance
• Artists’ Biographies

(ISBN 978-89-97128-11-2 93600, 128 pages, 12,000)