Korean Mobile Phone

I have now got the mobile from Jooyoung, so I am reachable, call me, see if I am free. :) I will be using it until October 7.

+82(0)10-8338-2561

Since I got in two days ago I have just been working and preparing for the actual work (two wall paintings). I am a bit jetlagged again (guess I am getting old) and time doesn't seem to stretch enough...

Back in Seoul

Dear friends,

I am back in Seoul. I just arrived yesterday.
Staying in Samuso's little house on top of
a mountain behind Artsonje, Hwa-dong.
it's going to be hectic. I don't have a
cellphone yet, but hope to have the one Power
and Bjørn and Erlend used this summer, when I
meet Jooyoung. I will post that number then.

I do not have internet access where I am
staying and probably don't have time to go
online at Samuso's during the day, but
I will try check my mail now and then.

But there is a phone in my house, where I
can be reached at night, feel free to call
any time :)

+82-2-722-8945

Hope to see you all around one of the days!

Best, Jan

indepentent drawing gig.3 in Den Haag

i had a show and performance with Channa Boon in The Hague.

i also had a good time on a boat with Rachel, Esther, The Cocaine & Abel(NY post metal group) and Herold.

hi Erlend!!

I met Erlend in Kassel. That was precious moment of Seoul 195 reunion.

The return of Jan, Sept 26 - Oct 6

Everybody, I will be back in Seoul from September 26 - October 6. Looking forward to seeing all of you! Happy spa every day.

Kimchi d'Lyon

While continuing to put off actually writing something substantial about what exactly happened during my second visit to Seoul, let me entertain you all by a picture of me looking very serious next to a pretty good Korean meal I had in Lyon tonight. I was walking along Quai Saint-Antoine, where Lyon's current Hermés-store is located whilst their main one is being renovated (I haven't been there while it's open yet, but hope to do some shopping tomorrow morning...) when I discovered the restaurant, and as I browsed the menu I got very excited. So I called up my travelling-partner and we had a meal that consisted of some deep fried starters, stir-fry squid (my favourite from Korea, and better in Seoul of course, much less spicy here), bibimbap, some shrimp and kimchi. The kimchi was pretty good, but there really wasn't enough of it! The restaurant also had soju, but paying 16 euros for soju seemed kind of over the top, so we went for Tsing-tao and sake instead.

Greetings to all from my really shitty hotel-room in Lyon.

The Seoul SFX Sound art festival!!

Jean Pierre Gauthier's workshop!

Michael Grave's preperation before the opening!

Michael Grave's show!


I went to see and do translation work for the Seoul SFX Sound Art Festval .....and joined two sound workshops one by Michael Graeve from Melbourne, Australia, who made a great sound installation with coloured MDF and another sound artist called Jean Pierre Gauthier from Montreal.

P.Art.y: People, Art & Technology

Stalkshow, karen Lancel & herman Matt from Holland.
EPS-Extrasensory Perception, Opacity 101
Rythm Science, Paul D.Miller(a.k.a DJ Spooky)

The party presented by art center Nabi in Seoul. here are some photos(taken by Geoffrey Bell) on 15th sep. it was 3day's festival for gathering, networking in the field media arts with electronic music...

195 mini-reunion at Documenta

I met Eunji in Kassel the other day!!

Sound of the Roundtabletalk in SeMA 1

The Yeonhee-Dong 195 Residency people gathered around a large table and started to talk about the project in Yeonhee-Dong and SeMA in Aug., 24th, 2007. First, we introduced ourselves by turns, and then speak each of us own thoughts like as that we feel great pleasure, and also few lacking points on the other hand. Having this productive and interesting conversation, the Yeohee-Dong 195’s Preopening Sound mixed with this talk sound. Our words, languages, and breath in SeMA were overlapping with ones in Yeonhee-Dong.

Sound of the Roundtabletalk in SeMA 2

Visiting Changdong Studio

Opening party at Changdong Stuido gallery on wed 5th Sep.
Hyejoo Oh, Carmen and audiences!!
Carmen Gonzalez (from Spain)'s studio!! she made an amazin wall collges with found posters from Seoul.
This is Carmen's old work from Spain, what a contrast!!
Soyeon Park's Publick Art Project during her residency. Its called "Story Telling and Listening IV:The Inner room of Women".

Anna Kang, educator from Chandong Studio!

Kimchi Chocolates?!

A friend from Melbourne, showed me her perfect souvenir collection from Insadong last weekend...yeah!! Kimchi and Chocolate?! this not so right!! i never tried so i cant tell what it would taste like...it must taste weird!!

Email from Caspar

From : Caspar Stracke
Sent : Tuesday, September 4, 2007 3:41 PM
To : Jooyoung lee
CC : Erlend Hammer
Subject : Re: show
Seoul Museum of arts
| | | Inbox
Attachment : inside.the.office.rtf (<>

Hey Jooyoung, dear Erlend

yes it was great to meet you!!!
good to hear from you. thanks.
if you could even write short -version
It took a few days, cant keep up with your blogging speed!
But, I went BACK and did a little thing in your exhibition space ;-)
Can't log onto yr blog as guest! But heres text and 2 related images.
I also but up a short version, with link you Yeonheedong 195 on my own blog
See you soon,
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caspar
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I am waiting for somebody at the exhibition space (Seoul for Museum of Art.)
A friend who wants to see the show we're in.
It is quiet pleasing to have an "office" inside this show. Not that I have to wait in a cafeteria or walk endless rounds this space whose art pieces I know quiet well since I was installing (with everybody else). I rather can sit down at an office table take my laptop. I have absolutely no problem to plug in the power for my laptop - I feel so comfortable doing this because the environment suggests: I am at home, or, at least among friends. There is this -slightly deceiving- feeling of total relaxedness, being in an intimate sphere which is a bubble within an anonymous public (art) space. It reminded me of Rirkrit Tiravanija's 1:1 replica of his East village Apt at Gavin Brown Gallery a few years back.

So I open my laptop and start writing this, while waiting.
My friend arrived and I left this text window in my laptop open. Later when I returned to pack up, several visitors were curiously reading the first three sentences and I have been reminded that this is not an office and that any action and object in this space becomes part of the art piece.

I usually have a lot of problems with "info art" - improvised reading stations and other in-gallery compromises attempting to displaying conceptual or otherwise text-heavy art projects. Most of them are so unsexy, aesthetically unsatisfying. Unless these reading stations have another layer in which they are able to create a life on their own. I think this is the case with Yooyoung Lee, Erlend Hammer (and Jan Christensen's) documentation of the last residency project and Yeonhee-Dong 195.

It took me a while to understand (and I keep forgetting) that this situation was actually the outcome of this three week residency project (which I had not seen) But what I've seen happened on the tables in this room: So fascinating how this project constantly accumulates information that is then turns "inside out." Pamphlets of upcoming events, catalogs from past shows, text, speech, video.
Like a chameleon it becomes an exhibition - within the exhibition, a museum-within-the-museum, able to hold a mirror in the face of the exhibition, recoding and displaying even its own installation and activities beyond. On may occasions they would do sound and/or image recordings - the prospect of constant recording gives this project another conceptual dimension which distinguishes "the office" (as I still like to call it) from other similar situations. It is a rhizomatically spreading organism, full of life and makes us neighbors (the surrounding art pieces in the show) look pretty "dead".

Love blogging!! blog is like drug!!

Pics from Jina Park's opening @Gallery 27 the other say!! outside view of the gallery 27, is part of Kaywon School of Art and Design in Uiwang-si.
Jina and heyran. after the BBQ we call came back to Cosmos bar in Hongdae!!
Jinyoung Jung and Hyunjin Kim(the show "OUTSIDE OF" is curated by Hyunjin with two other artists) sorry, i havent got more pics of others...
Moontan again me again in Jina's paintings!!

David Digregorio( from NY) performed for the opening party. i got one of his 50 edition CD called "climed up, last time + Han River versions" specially made for Korean audience.
Jinyoung, gallery director...after the opening we all gathered to have BBQ!!
Jinna is posing !!
Dulu and Joaquin(former Changdong studio artists we met last April) in Jina's new painting too!!
Jina painted me Again!!
Me again in Jina's NEW painting. im busy eating!!

Random Pics from other participants in the Museum

Soyeon Park's installation!!



My favorite video installation!!
Jina Park's paintings!!