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ART SPACE O, hosted the installation artist Goeun Choi’s month-long residency from Mar. 15. The exhibition was not in the usual format in which residential artists show their work through open studios, but allowed the audience to see different intervals of how the work in question was changing, during the period of the residency. The exhibition hall, which more closely resembles a work space, presented mirrors, knives, gloves that the artists had been in the process of using, while next to these objects, a mirror objet that had been chosen ‘for today’ would be presented on top of the white window sill. ‘Material Pool’ is a project in which the time at which the project is made, and the time when objects are ready to be presented as an exhibition,…

Lee Chungkee is a professor of architecture department at the University of Seoul and served as a member of Arts Council Korea (ARKO). He has taken part in international events including the Venice Biennale (2010), Vladivostok Biennale (2008), exhibitions Deutsches Architektur Zentrum–DAZ (Berlin, 2008), Deutsches Architektur Museum (Frankfurt, 2007) and HongKong &Shenzhen Bi-city Biennale (2007). His leading works include Tri-Bricks, KOSCA Juju headquarters, Jinkwang Church, Okgye Recess, Ginsengland Service Station and Canaan Church. He has recently been devoting his interest and efforts to a social activity which furthers village cultivation and public design, and areas such as urbanism, recycling and reuse in architecture, in addition to architectural design itself. Kim Kyunghee obtained her bachelor’s degree at Hongik University and practiced at joh sung young architects office for 8 years. Since…

Attitude_ For the son who departed his hometown to live in Seoul, his old birthplace home began to feel like a shabby place that only causes trouble for his old widowed mother. The project started with a request to find a more appropriate site near to the old house. However, his elderly mother did not want to leave the old site of the house. She wanted to spend the rest of her life on the land where she established her family, raised her children, and built relationships with the neighbours. Context_ The old house sits on a relatively low lying area. A driveway was recently built on top of the low hill in front of the house, and a bus stop is installed on the road. Something of an urban…

Sharjah is one of the seven emirates of the United Arab Emirates along with Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Ras al-Khaimah, Ajman, Umm al-Quwain, and Fujairah. The March Meeting of Sharjah is an international culture and arts symposium held every March since 2008 that encourages the participation of artists, curators, journalists, and researchers. Without exception, this year’s March Meeting was held from the 12–13 March with the theme ‘Education, Engagement and Participation.’ The seminar kicked off with an address by Sharjah Art Foundation President Sheikha Hoor Al Qasimi and progressed with 40 presentations from guest lecturers and selected speakers by inviting public participation. Particularly for this year, the UAE hosted more star players from the international art scene than ever with the Art Fair and Global Art Forum held around the same…

On 4 April, at 4pm, a long queue formed in front of the exhibition space Audio Visual Pavilion in Tongui-dong. How could it be that about a hundred people had turned up at this exact spot, as if they were all in some mutual agreement? A long wait is bound to only heighten that sense of anticipation, to those who have arrived with a strong sense of purpose. These people had gathered for two reasons: the first was to follow the long queue to enter into a small corner room and whisper into the ear of the Audio Visual Pavilion Management’s ear a certain word; the second was to participate in a game of rock paper scissors for 44 minutes with the exhibition artists SASA [44]. The game which was…

An exhibition of ‘Small House / Neighbourhood’ held in Onground Gallery introduces House K located in Espoo, Finland, as the first show of the year. It is a housing work for a family of four in a detached residential district, conducted by the Finnish firm Sanaksenaho Architects Ltd. in 2014. The chief curator of the exhibition, Byoung Cho (principal, BCHO Architects Associates) has stated that the reason for their selection was that ‘House K shows clear construction details along with neat design vocabulary rather than pursuing strong and reckless questions.’ Presenting the work through photography, plans and architectural models is the same as that of existing exhibitions, but, this time, the show features a one to one scale replica of a part of House K. The model of the staircase…

Long House in Beomeo-dong, outside of downtown Daegu, is located in the central part of a new residential area built in 1970 – 80s. It is adjacent to the area of a detached house, which is residential type generated by new lifestyles and changes to dwelling methods since the 1970s. At that time, new types of detached houses like Saemaeul House and French House have replaced traditional and modern houses, and various residential types such as apartments and multiplex houses started to emerge. The site faces two-story houses across the alley, which has been problematised by the issue of high fences and parking problems, which makes a landscape that reveals the dignity of the past a rich village and a new residential area in Daegu, in contrast to the apartment…

Is Eurasia still considered a continental landmass that exists today? Or, perhaps still an available concept? On 25 November of last year at ACC Creation, Space 3 at the Asia Culture Center (ACC) in Gwangju, the ‘Imagining New Eurasia Project’ commenced with a specific question and a definitive response: ‘Where exactly is the physical demarcation between Asia and Europe? Is it the Ural Mountains or Caucasus Mountains?...The dividing lines of Eurasia are merely a cultural construct... The bracket Eurasia is merely a cultural construct, and history confirms this.’ An open competition for exhibition works was conducted as part of this project, before the show, calling for participants to ‘imagine that Eurasia has been completely destroyed, possibly as the result of religious, ethnic and national wars, or even by nuclear war.…

A Summary of New Trends Since 2005 ‘This exhibition does not equally represent graphic design produced in Seoul. In 2005 and 2006, the genre saw the emergence of an unprecedented and completely different format of graphic design, that was so different from what came previously that it could be described as being ‘isolated’, as at the centre of this trend were a number of small studios that were active in the field of culture. Our sole interest was their accomplishments.’ This is how the joint curators of the exhibition, Min Choi (Sulki & Min) and Kim Hyungjin (Workroom Press) describe the exhibition. For the two designers, Min Choi who returned from the Netherlands in 2005, and Kim Hyungjin who founded the graphic design studio Workroom in 2006, the answer to…

Photographer Sungjin Song’s 5th solo exhibition ‘There’, which opened at O’NewWall E’JUHEON in Seonngbuk-dong and ran from Apr. 8 – 30, juxtaposes two opposing sets of ideas. Light and darkness (shadows), verticality and horizontality, high-rise structures and old dwellings, and so on, these multiple gazes fixed on each other collide in the landscape of the exhibition, which while ironic, are poetic and tranquil. The peculiar atmosphere flowing through the hanok exhibition space is quite a curiosity. The desires of capitalism can be read in the flat landscapes created through the artist’s overlapping skyscrapers. This is because an economic logic, which forbids voids in the city, pushes people out and cares little for the lives of ordinary people. Sungjin Song asks the question, ‘Is there any way for cities built on…

‘Pedagogy and Place,’ located in the atrium of Paul Rudolph’s Art and Architecture building at Yale University, presents a history of the architecture school through the lens of the buildings it has occupied. Photographs of spaces where architecture students have worked over the years, reproductions of student work, and short videos detailing the history of the school are on display. The exhibition was curated by the school’s dean, Robert A.M. Stern, and one of his employees and former students, Jimmy Stamp. Like Robert Stern’s books, it is heavy on information; images and artifacts are accompanied by extensive text, and timelines along the side walls demarcate important events in the history of the school. With most architecture schools, such an exhibition would not be interesting, but Yale has been important to…

Kim Hun (Kim): On the encounter of architecture and place, one of characters that we often take too much for granted is its duo-fold nature. For example, while a construction is taking place on one site, a very strong message of rejecting any alternative action for the site is simultaneously planted in the site. Especially at the gardens of our cities, mostly due to the lack of budget, the environmental inferiority attempt to squeeze through whenever they find a gap. In this case, the meaning or influence of the aforementioned character becomes more important. While observing the works of Jae Y. Lim, I can see how vital the power of great architecture is for the salvation of a place. The first thing that drew my attention was distinguishing the power…

Views concerning architectural publications, as well as considerations of future prospects, were posed to five of the publishing houses of architectural books selected from the top ten for the past five years; Dolbegae Publishers, Mati Books, Mimesis Books, MISEWOOM, and Hyohyung Publishing Co. They have continued publishing books to produce knowledge and issues even in a shrinking market and the crisis faced by the architectural field. On the basis of their replies, we try to figure out what is missing and what kind of new knowledge or information transmission concerning architecture is now in demand by the market. Many of them said that there are few authors who can arouse interest in architecture and they agreed that many of authors seem to focus on only one side of architecture. We…

‘I want to build a house to give as a gift to myself’: this is the dream of the client, who, for 20 years coped with intensive work, only taking two days off a year. That gift had to be closer to the fantastic rather than the norm. Although the view overlooking the ocean to the south is attractive, the site has a variegated outlook across a landscape scattered with green houses, sign boards and power lines. The advantage of an ocean view is that one is able to gaze out to the horizon. This is why a structure that prioritises the scope of sight with a window that only reveals the horizon was chosen. The acutely sloped site’s cadastral map is also unique. After a period of trial and…

Woo Hyunjung (Woo): You use a module, which means a basic measurement and unit for spatial division, as the basis of your work. You said an artist him/herself is one of modules in the social relationship. What is the meaning of ‘module’ across all of your work? Byoungho Kim (Kim): I don’t think that an artwork is produced only according to the artist’s own will. Different machines and engineers who handle them produce the parts of artwork through a specialized production system, not in an atelier. I interpret them as a single ‘part’. Most particularly these parts have formative, aesthetic and functional link with each other. I call them ‘modules’ because they are correlative. Artworks consisting of modules have a meaning as a work that makes their relationship visible. I…

Incessant Growth The 4th Art Basel Hong Kong was extravagantly held at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center on 24–26 March. Wealthy VIPs from roughly 70 countries participated in the preview event on the 22nd and 23rd and competed to buy the works the galleries had to offer. This year’s fair was full of famous galleries that continue to shape the world art market, including the Gagosian, White Cube, Pace, David Zwirner, Hauser & Wirth, Blum & Poe, Dominique Levy, and Galerie Perrotin, and recorded new highs of about 70,000 visitors and gallery sales. This rendered the expected low participation of Chinese collectors amidst China’s lowest growth rate yet wrong. Christina Heekyung Kang (CEO, Paradigm Art Company), who has visited Art Basel Hong Kong every year, said that ‘Asian…