The Yeonhee-Dong 195 Residency Project

Our numbers in Seoul, until October 13, 2008

2008-09-24T19:11:00.001+09:00

Bjørn: 010-8070-9626
Jan: 010-8070-9316

Seoul, Sept. 19 - October 13, 2008

2008-09-10T21:03:00.002+09:00

Dear everyone,

Bjørn and I am coming back to Seoul for three weeks to work on a project for the Seoul Design Olympiad - and we hope to see you all around!

Email me your current mobile numbers so that we can all hoop up again.

All the best, Jan

Check this out!!

2008-06-20T10:43:00.005+09:00

Peter and I talking about music, music, music...

Maria from BEK setting up recording gear for us!! thanks Maria!
Inside BEK!

My Compliation Music-randomly chosen during my three months residency in Bergen will be streamed soon in Morocco here is the link of the Radio Station.

And the Conversation between Peter-from sextag and he will mix the sound peices and I had on the rooftop at the BEK-Bergen electronic centre last months. here are some photos of our conversation up on the rooftop at the BEK. Thanks to Anne, peter, Maria, Abdellah and musicians from Bergen. will update more information about soon.

Poem about 195project

2008-05-25T23:25:00.004+09:00

here is the link of the peom written by John Pemberton last summer when we had a crazy time in Seoul.

Seoul, April 5-11, 2008

2008-04-06T23:41:00.002+09:00

So here I am, back again. For a week, until April 11. My new temporary cell phone is +82186961621 so feel free to call. So far I have only had a chance to check out the house I am installing the wall painting at, and have had a go at the jimjilbang at my hotel, the infamous Hamilton Hotel in Itaewon (where Power and Bjørn and Erlend went out for some gay party once) and I have met Baya and her friend Udo at club Volum last night. Tomorrow starts work and that's probably all I am going to get out of this visit this time around as it's short and lots of work. Byebye!

Yeogiyoooooo!!

2008-03-31T01:22:00.011+09:00

I'm in Bergen for a residency at Flaggfabrikken from 11th March to 7th June 2008.
Here is the link of my new blog in Bergen!!!

Pics from the 3rd organic bazaare with Flea Market @Yogiga

2007-12-31T15:50:00.000+09:00

사또씨!!
크래그(craig)!!

아나킨 프로젝트!!

벼룩시장 참여한 혜란, 은지, 진아!!

지난 금요일 28일 저녁 세번째 유기농 음악 바자회사진들입니다. 다들 참여해주셔서 감사하고요. 2008년 다음달 마지막 금요일에 또 합니다. 그날은 3시부터시작하니 많은 참여 기대합니다.

South Korea in Flash Art

2007-12-17T20:59:00.001+09:00

Not incredibly interesting piece, perhaps, but still:

here it is

Pics from the 2nd organic music bazaare with Flea Market @Yogiga

2007-12-04T16:16:00.000+09:00

Sold out?!
And MINIMINI show on the wall!!
Playing song and selling stuff on the back!!
Jina, a Pansori singer(sorry i cant remeber her name) is buying a jacket, Hyeran & Suzan!!
CDs, Clothing, bags, tapes, magazines, mushrooms(yes, magic), books and interior decorations on the market!!

I'm so looking forward to the next flea market the end of this months!! Thanks to everyone!!

2nd Organic Music Bazaare with Flea Market at Yogiga this friday 6pm

2007-11-29T15:49:00.000+09:00

전시는 12시부텀 노래잔치는 6시부터 입장료는 여전히 무료입니다.
먹을 것은 알아서 싸오세요. **따뜻한 와인도 있습니다.
유기농 음악나누기 바자회와 함께 하는 벼룩장터 놀러 오세요
누가신청을 하나요?
1.팔만한 물건(중고나 새것 모두)이 있는 사람은 남녀노소 누구나.
2.행사 당일 다른 사람들의 소중한 물건을 구경하면서 집에서 노는 아까운 물건에 새 주인을 찾아주고 싶은 사람 누구나.
무엇을 파느냐구요?1.집에 아껴두고 있는 안입는 옷과 신발, 가방
3.CD, 작은 가전제품(작동하는 것)3.디자인 컬렉션 또는 디자인 용품
4.인테리어 소품
5.작가의 소품(미술품 또는 드로잉 등)등 예쁘거나 귀엽거나 멋진 것 또는 새 주인을 기다리고 있는 쓸만한 물건이면 모두 됩니다.

Organic Music Barzaare with YOGIGA FLEA MARKET
Open call for participants of Organic Music Barzzare(a.k.a Naebang.net) with "YOGIGA Flea Market'. It will take place at the freshly established cultural space, YOGIGA,which opened just this fall.
Who can participate you ask?
1. It doesn't matter if you're old, young, or not even born yet as long as you've got something to sell (old or used).
2. This project is ideal for those who find the idea of getting to see sentimental items of strangers while finding new homes for your ownprecious items, sadly collecting dust in your home, appealing.
What are we to sell you ask?
1. Clothing, shoes, and bags which are not being used but secretly safeguarded in your homes.
2. CDs and other electronical devices, which are in working order.
3.Your dusty design collections and/or design materials.
4. Interior Decorations.
5. Artists' belongings(art materials and/or artwork)
6. Etcetera, etcetera, etcetera- all your cool, wonderful, and cutsy items which need new homes.

* Individual performances are possible, for instance:
if you wish to perform instruments whilst selling them.
it is possible to reserve bulk spaces for those who wish to sell together.

More pics from Yogiga

2007-11-08T17:22:00.000+09:00

Bin-drum??!!
This exhibition called "channel" by Heo Gwang Il at Yogiga.
Installation shot!!
Local musician's acoustic quitar song Xchange night!! actually its called "organic music bazaar". you can sell or buy CDs and other electronical devices during the night!!
And drinking too!!

APAP performance

2007-11-03T00:57:00.000+09:00

i participated Anyang Public Art Project 2007 and these images are my performance_Flexible Landscape.
check this out.
http://apap.anyang.go.kr/
u guys can see Jooyoung's great performer below!!

2007-11-03T00:51:00.000+09:00

New Sound gallery in Hongdae

2007-10-26T17:46:00.000+09:00

check this place called YOGIGA,
i will post some pics from this gallery soon.

By popular demand

2007-10-11T08:54:00.000+09:00

I just feel like this blog hasn't had enough Bjørn lately.

Kimchi alla Stockholm

2007-10-10T07:24:00.000+09:00

I am in Stockholm visiting the Power. Today we walked all over town looking at mostly boring art. Then we found a korean grocery store where they had all sorts of exciting stuff. Power bought some metal chopsticks and we got some kimchi. The kimchi was very good! Much better than my super-sceptical look would suggest...

What is this?

2007-10-08T07:22:00.000+09:00

I am in Stockholm visiting the Power and on my way here today, I discovered, in one of the outer pockets of my Sonar-bag, a small, folded paper hat or boat on some kind of glossy Korean paper.

Obviously someone has folded me this hat or boat, and I have put it in my bag (I'm guessing during our first three-week visit as I didn't carry my bag around much during visit number two.), but then forgotten about it. So what I'm wondering is where did this come from? And I apologize for not remembering the paper hat or boat's origin. It's very cool.

Went to Jongro to eat some spicy octopus after the opening!!

2007-10-07T10:16:00.001+09:00

Eunah Bae, coordinator from the Tomorrow show and her partner.
Is Tony waking Jan up or what?!
Look at Jan's red mark on his foreground!!
Tony: what are you missing? an octopus?
I'm so drunk i dont know if i have a face or not!!
Jan is just about to fall asleep!!

Trashed!!

2007-10-06T23:53:00.001+09:00

After opening party yesterday!! Jan was so trashed because of drinking too much Makkgeoli and spicy octopus he decided to sleep in the street. Jan: time to go home!!

Pics from the last week

2007-10-06T23:38:00.001+09:00

Benton and Tony.
Assistants from the Tomorrow show, a Norwegain guy (sorry, i cant remember his name) apparently he is a friend of one of Jan' assistant and Jan at the Loft!! Erlend: can you recognise this guy? Jan's wall painting at the Tomorrow show.
Benton who i met in Seoul via Caspar at the opening!

Jan and Tony doing some kind of martial arts at the opening of Roni Horn's at Kukje gallery.

Deinstalling at the Seoul Museum of Arts

2007-10-06T23:35:00.000+09:00

Juhyun Cho, curator from the Museum.

TOMORROW

2007-10-04T16:52:00.000+09:00

Fw: TOMORROW‏
보낸 사람: Jan Christensen
보낸 날짜:2007년 10월 4일 목요일 오후 4:42:01
Dear friends,

I have been back here in Seoul for a few days. It has
been extremely hectic and just a lot of work and I simply
have not had time to sit down and write or call.

Please find the press release attached.

Hope to see you all!

All the best, Jan

TOMORROW‏
보낸 사람: info tomorrow(info.tomorrow@gmail.com)
보낸 날짜:2007년 10월 2일 화요일 오전 9:58:22
받는 사람:
Dear Friends,

From October 4th at Kumho Museum of Art and Artsonje Center in Seoul, I am excited to be inaugurating a new project entitled Tomorrow. Realised with the collaboration David Ross, Dan Cameron, a dedicated team of young coordinators and curators, and 32 exciting artists, Tomorrow offers challenges to the impossible, probes utopia and shares dreams and visions that may not otherwise find space in the context of contemporary society. In the first realisation of this project here in Seoul, Tomorrow is the main event of Platform - Seoul, a collaborative festival put on by Samuso in collaboration with the galleries and museums of Seoul's Bukchon neighbourhood. Intended as the beginning of a conversation, I really hope that this project can carry on into the future, travel to different places and become a geographically transient platform for the exploration of post-national possibilities of cultural language. If you have a chance to be in Seoul between October 4th and December 2nd, please be to stop by and see what we are beginning. Attached is the official press release with more details about the project, and below are contents of the same. I hope to see some of you here.

Warmest Regards,
Sunjung Kim

Tomorrow
Artsonje Center (October 6 – December 2, 2007)
Kumho Museum of Art (October 6 – November 4, 2007)
Seoul, Korea

Participating Artists
Alexandre Arrechea, Lee Bul, Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries, Jeonghwa Choi, Jan Christensen, Democracia, Cao Fei, Liam Gillick, Jens Haaning, Pierre Huyghe, Long March, Sarah Morris, Antonio Muntadas, Inhwan Oh, Mai-Thu Perret, Sergio Prego, Navin Rawanchaikul, Tobias Rehberger, Martha Rosler, Allan Sekula, Tino Seghal, Bruno Serralongue, Shimabuku, Doho Suh, Tadasu Takamine, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Ozawa Tsuyoshi & Chen Shaoxiong & Gimhongsok, Lim Tzay Chuen, Haegue Yang, and Xu Zhen

Director's Statement
The perception of time keeps changing. Living in a totally different pace from the past, we just focus on the present in rapid daily life. However, the most important thing at this moment is the prospect of the future.

Tomorrow intends to create a chance to view the future with hope and vision.
This will offer the vision toward the bright future through diverse activities organized by communities. In addition, Tomorrow will look at the future with infinite possibility by means of searching for ideal fictions and looking into the power that forms the shape of the future.

Possibility in shifting society offers hope, but at the same time it asks that responsibility be taken. The future gains infinite possibility to change in any direction, depending on the choices we make. Tomorrow will look into upcoming changes in this context. Everything becomes re-considered with shifted valuation. The more diverse changes and developments occur, the more enlarged possibilities our society will have. One of the prominent changes is the increase of communities. As the nation gets smaller and private citizens extend their power, the community develops as a concomitant phenomenon. While the great discourses are dismantled, new proposals in relation to activities of communities could be made as an alternative way.

In the beginning of the twentieth century, Russian avant-garde artists sought for Utopia through their works. The artists in Tomorrow propose 'challenges to the impossible'. With Tomorrow artworks we will share dreams, visions and fantasies that cannot be allowed in 'reality'.

Motivation and Outline
Large-scale contemporary art exhibitions and fairs have become territories of state initiated or market driven spectacle meant for bureaucratic, political and economic ends. In such contexts artists, curators and other cultural actors must struggle against being cast as public relations, propaganda or money-making tools. It is in the midst of such struggles that the cultural possibility of our age is being distorted and defined.

With Sunjung Kim's 2006 exhibition and film programme Somewhere in Time as its prelude Tomorrow is an independent attempt to bring global art and local community together to engage in a cultural conversation less encumbered by the standard prerogatives of state and market. Intended to be more a mobile, multi-local conversation than a traveling show Tomorrow's fluid crew of internationally active artists, film makers, curators and others will work in conjunction with partners in various localities to realize visual and verbal manifestations that explore human approaches to the unknown moment: Tomorrow.

In its inaugural manifestation in Seoul Tomorrow's primary aim is to be an interactive platform that engages various sectors of the local audience in a conversation about possibility. To achieve this the multi-media contemporary art exhibition is accompanied by more than a month of public programmes including: video screenings, a symposium, artists talks and various other events including a sunrise breakfast hosted by Berlin-based artist Shimabuku.

Under the title of Is Tomorrow A Better Day? the initiative was originally conceived in the ashes of the Korea at ARCO affair - when Sunjung Kim, along with her co-organisers including Dan Cameron and David Ross among others, was pushed out of her position as curator and commissioner of artistic programmes for Korea's national representation at ARCO'07. At that time directly confronted with the limitations that the tendencies and imperatives of state can impose on contemporary artistic expression Sunjung Kim and her team felt a very tangible need to clear a path towards a better way. And the result is this experiment we now call Tomorrow, an endeavour that hopes to become a geographically transient, yet enduring outpost for the free development of language in the context of a cultural conversation that grasps for the yet under-realised possibilities of post-national community.

Website (beta): istomorrowabetterday.wordpress.com
Contact: info.tomorrow@gmail.com

Venues:
Artsonje Center
43 Gamgodang-gil, Jongro-gu, Seoul, Korea 110-200
Open : 11:00-19:00 Tuesday,Wednesday, Sunday
11:00 - 21:00 Thursday ~ Saturday
Closed on Mondays
Tel: +82 - 2 - 733 - 8945
Fax: +82 - 2 - 733 - 8377
URL:www.artsonje.org

Kumho Museum of Art
78 Sagan-dong, Jongno-gu, Seoul, Korea 110-190
Tel: (02) 720-5114
Open : 11:00-19:00 Tuesday ~ Sunday
Closed on Mondays
URL: www.kumhomuseum.com

The organizers of Tomorrow are proud to have the sponsorship and support of ISU Chemical Hyundaicard Co., Ltd, NHN Corp. (Naver), Asiana Airlines, Inc., Centre Culturel Francais, and Pro Helvetia.

Tomorrow is a new cultural project Curated and Directed by Sunjung Kim; produced by SAMUSO: Space for Contemporary Art; Associate Curator - David Ross; Advising Curator - Dan Cameron; Assistant Curators – Tyler Russell & Seungmin Yoo

Korean Mobile Phone

2007-09-28T20:04:00.000+09:00

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

2007-09-27T18:42:00.000+09:00

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

2007-09-21T19:56:00.002+09:00

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.

2007-09-21T19:56:00.001+09:00

hi Erlend!!

2007-09-21T19:31:00.000+09:00

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

The return of Jan, Sept 26 - Oct 6

2007-09-18T21:54:00.001+09:00

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

2007-09-18T07:15:00.000+09:00

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!!

2007-09-18T01:54:00.000+09:00

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

2007-09-18T01:08:00.000+09:00

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

2007-09-15T18:06:00.000+09:00

I met Eunji in Kassel the other day!!

Sound of the Roundtabletalk in SeMA 1

2007-09-14T08:54:00.000+09:00

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

2007-09-14T01:21:00.000+09:00

Visiting Changdong Studio

2007-09-07T00:26:00.000+09:00

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?!

2007-09-06T23:59:00.001+09:00

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

2007-09-04T16:27:00.000+09:00

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,
|||| | | | | | |

caspar
||| | | | | | |

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!!

2007-09-02T19:37:00.000+09:00

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

2007-09-01T15:16:00.000+09:00

Soyeon Park's installation!!

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

유클리드의 산책전 관객분과 미술관 스탭님들께!!

2007-08-31T14:21:00.000+09:00

먼저 지난 6월에서 7월 사이에 서울 서대문구 연희동 195번지에서 다수의 국내작가와 4명의 노르웨이, 스웨덴 작가/큐레이터와 함께 진행된 연희동195 레지던시 프로젝트 블로그에 들러 주셔서 감사합니다.

현재 서울시립미술관 유클리드 산책전(Where Euclid Walked) 전에서는 프로젝트의 결과물 위주로 소개되고 있습니다. 참여한 작가들의 전시관련 자료/도록등을 왼쪽에 있는 작업대에서 소개하고 있고, 오른쪽 테이블에서는 지금 현재 서울에서 열리는 전시정보를 제공하고자합니다.

전시에 관해 블로그에 코멘트를 남기시려면, 블로그 오른쪽 하단에 보시면 CONTRIBUTORS 중에 GUEST BLOGGER를 클릭하셔도 되고,
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연희동 195 프로젝트

More Pics from the Seoul Museum of Arts

2007-08-30T21:57:00.000+09:00

Outside of the Museum at about 7pm!!
Kids are still hanging out!!

Kids are busy blogging!!

More flyers are arrived!!
All the flyers are gone!! when i arrived at the museum today at about 6pm i found this empty table!! isnt it COOL?!
The notes for the audience!!
Got Erlend's fiber biscuits behind from the stencil!! hmmm.

More pics from Insadong when Mr Sudoku was here

2007-08-29T01:04:00.000+09:00

Mr Sudoku!!
This is in btwn some kind of icecream and cereals we had at the gallery Sang 157!!

Steve, Ajumma (owner of the fish place), Young-ho!!
Young and me.

The most dangerous jewerly works by Jang oh Hong at the bus gallery( one floor down from Gallery Sang 157)

Looking very 90's according to the Erlend!!

Old houses in Insadong!!

Mr Sudoku, Steve, Junho and myself visited Young-ho Yoo' s gallery (art & new product, multishop and cafe-ish gallery) in the middle of Insadong, just opend on 11th of july when you guys had to fly off to Europe (remember?!)sadly we never made his opening tho!! so here are some photos taken from gallery Sang 157 and The Bus gallery the other week!! tell you what Yongho was a resident artist from Changdong Art Studio ( where Jan and i had met back in 2004. also he was early member of our Yeonheedong project too). Mr Sudoko didnt really meet Young-ho but Steve did it. Young-ho took us out for an adventureous, ammonia marinated fish with grisly bones in ammonia salt. its was quite nice though (accoring to Steve) in a little kimchi (marinated cabbage) sandwich with steamed pork and tiny salted shrimps. im sure Steve loved it but Not really me tho. (Some pics are taken by Steve again!!)

The Opening Sound in SeMA

2007-08-28T06:02:00.000+09:00

More pics from the other day

2007-08-27T22:39:00.001+09:00

Drinking funshots at the truk bar again!!

At the loop gallery!!
At the loft bar again!!
at the national folk museum of Korea!! my favorite celadons in the world esp with jade green!!
At the truk bar again with jonny, Erlend and Heyran!!
At the national folk meseum!!
At the national folk museum in the palace!!
Erlend and i went see the show of Hyena kim at Loop gallery in Hongdae last sunday.

Benjamin and Erlend talking about future Yeonheedong project!!

And we went to see the show at IAS... found Jinjoo is working at the reception.
At the royal palace called Geyongbokgung, the man palace of the Joseon Dynasty just right next Sagandong area where many commercial galleries are located. we missed the show at Kukje gallery so we stopped at the palace for while before we heading back to Hongdae...

Pics from Secret Gardens

2007-08-27T17:47:00.000+09:00

are located in the Changdeokgung Palace, was built during the Joseon Dynasty btwn 1395-1920 in Seoul. it is also is next to Insa Art Space you might remember on the way to round table talk?! ...i just love to share the photos with all of you. (pics are taken by Steve)

Pics from the Round table talk @2pm-4pm

2007-08-25T14:28:00.001+09:00

View of the round table talk at the museum.
Benjamin, Oheun, Soyeon from the Left!
Ben and Jinjoo.
Me and Eunji.
Oheun is busy videoing the talk!!

Erlend.
Erlend, Jinjoo and Ben again!!
Ben and Oheun again!!
Soyeon. Capar& Jonny (below pic)

Round table talk at 2pm-4pm

2007-08-24T23:40:00.000+09:00

Amazing

2007-08-24T09:51:00.000+09:00

I am impressed with everything. Thanks for posting the photos for us back here in Europe. 195Seoul seems to be rolling! Can't wait to see the poster in my hands when we get it from Jooyoung, I see our blog transcription in the background of one of the photographs, it seems like an impressive amount of info... How are people reacting to it? Do they get the intensity of our project and do they get into the actual blog transcription on the poster (and are there many of you visitors out there reading this)?

Greetings from Norway, Jan

Pics from the opening at Seoul Musuem of Arts

2007-08-24T04:11:00.000+09:00

Soyeon Park's performance view next our space.
After the opening dinner we came back to Hongdae, drinking funshots at the street truck bar across from the Loft bar.
After the opening, we all went to for a dinner with staff from Musueum and all artists.
Our lovely sound girl, Jinjoo is working hard during the opening!!
Our new discovery of Erlend's hobby, scratching his beard constantly!!

We put about 30 posters out during the opening to give them away. they are all gone!! Erlend and i decided to let audience to interact More during the show. we left a note both Korean and English on the other table saying
"Please have a look at these flyers for other exhibitions and events taking
place in Seoul over the next few weeks. Consider paying them a visit.

If you are putting on an event or an exhibition that you would like to
inform us about, please feel free to leave the details here."
This a lovely note is from Eunhee (often called mischell) who left it for us via Suzzan before she fly off to the US. it is Now part of our show on the corner of the space right next to unpacked works from yeonheedong... im sure Erlend will tell you more about it with his future curatorial plan!!

Setting up the blog!!
Eunji's holy nation's gymnastic video is on!!
This Nick Spratt who we met at AFI Seok-su Market project we went along to see the opening the other day in Anyang. apparently he is from Newzeland. and he knew many people i met in Melburne during the residency at gertrude. what a small world!!
During the opening Musuem crew came to see our show guided by curator. and Jinyoung (collector lady) is busy folding one of our poster to take it away!!
Jinyoung is trying to leave a comment on the blog with Erlend!!

Jina, Jonny and Erlend!!

During the opening reception ceremony all artists had to bow the the visitors very properly!!
Caspar Stracke, participating artist from Germany, his bowing looks more official than mine!!
So official ceremony!! an artist's giving a speech!!

The collage collaged!!

Our publications (with catalogues i borrowed from Seoul Museum of Arts Library during Yeonheedong project last month) on the table!! NOW its perfect relational art cos its much easier for us to return them after the show in September.

Good luck at the opening!

2007-08-23T18:36:00.000+09:00

Dear everybody, and dear visitor,

good luck at the opening today!

We are follwing the project back here
in Europe (Sweden, Germany and Norway).

Wish I was there.

All the best, Jan

More pics from the other day and installing part1

2007-08-23T02:14:00.000+09:00

Soyeon's installing just right next our space!!

Oheun, Erlend.
Oheun, jina, jooyoung, erlend and patrick jambon. here is his website (from France, lives in Berlin) at the opening of AFI 2007 Seok-su Market Project international artists residency...
More drinking after the opening!

Jambon's pool!!
we went to see Eunji's open studio after installing ours yesterday.

Steve, Jinyoung, Erlend, Suzan and Jooyoung at Garosugil project (its a bar tho) in Shinsadong.

Blogging again with more pics

2007-08-22T00:53:00.000+09:00

Cho Juhyun, curator from the Museum and Erlend (checking out the space) and myself.

Dancing dancing at club Via!!

Back in Seoul

2007-08-21T13:34:00.000+09:00

So I've been back a few days already, and having a great time of course. First night was spent out with Mr. Dollars and some of his partners in crime. The following day started with a very good fish dinner at a lovely restaurant in Hongdae before we went on to the Loft 2 where lots of the 195-gang was gathered. This also included newcomer Steve who's been visiting Jooyoung for the last few days. Much lovely wine and North Korean beer. Also took an amazing photograph of Steve and our good friend the Janitor aka Security Camera Guy. Then went on to a very small bar that I would never be able to find again. The others then headed off to a club, but I opted for an early night and headed back home to make sure I wouldn't mess up my attempt to get on Korean time by staying out until 8 am and being back on perfect Norwegian time. The heat hasn't been helping either, today it's apparently 34 degrees and 80% humidity. Phew.

Went by the Seoul Museum the other day, everything was in full swing with putting up walls etc. Our space is a big corner space with an opening in one corner, so we actually have four walls. Very nice. A couple of spaces down they were building a very cool-looking many-shaped wooden room that will be very interesting to see what will be used for. The show is called "Where Euclid Walked" and I don't really know much about it yet. Haven't seen the artist list or anything, but I'm sure it will be good.

Bleh. I remember there being lots of stuff I was going to write about but sweatdrop by wretched sweatdrop this heat is draining my brain of all energy and wit.

The Native Gaze, interview

2007-08-21T00:39:00.000+09:00

The interview with some of the participants in the Residency Project made by Benjamin Kaplan of The Native Gaze is published HERE.

Part two

2007-08-20T00:37:00.001+09:00

So dear friends, how is it going now for part 2? Guess you are very busy installing and hanging out. Good luck and we look forward to hearing all about it. How is the poster? Any photos?

best of the best, jan

Fingers crossed!!

2007-08-01T03:31:00.000+09:00

Erlend mentioned something about my possible return to Seoul for the show in August. Unfortunately there is just not enough funding for all of us going to Seoul from different parts of Europe, but I've sent an e-mail to the Swedish Embassy who missed out on the op' to sponsor us last time (and the Norwegian Embassy did a damn good job funding the three Norwegian guys' travel costs). Maybe the Swedish Embassy will pick up on it this time, who knows? Anyway, time is ticking of course and it is highly unlikely in these times of vacations that we'll get the necessary funding. But keep your fingers crossed, I know my hands will be welcomed in building up the structure again and also my participation in the seminar - and miracles do happen! Big virtual kisses in the meantime to you guys for all the great work you are doing! xxx

Fun break and meeting for SeMA show

2007-07-30T19:15:00.003+09:00

Off to Valley!! hurray!!

So Yeon, Junho, myself and Oheun Lee (who is currently studying media arts in Geneva AND translating our texts for the publication). we went off the Chungju to visit Junho studio AND to talk about the SeMA show but ended up having a great fun... here are some pics to share.

but we got caught in a heavy rain shower (sorry, no pic to prove). so sadly we had to leave the valley called Yonchue, immediately right in the middle of cooking BBQ.
Finally we ended up cooking BBQ at the Valley Not feared deluge from the water swollen with summer rains.
Over view of an old factory of Junho's father.
Another ouside view!! these are not Kim-chi pots (acutally sea-salt pots) in the picture.
Inisde view!
Another inside view. apparently, some part of this factory used to a Jimjilbang ran by someone.
Yeonhee-Dong web-flyer is next the UCLA's faculty poster in junho's studio!!
This a little pretty house in the enterance of the old factory of juho's father. also oneday Junho wants to turn the factory into artist resideny place.

Busy busy viking ship in the middle of the city. girs are screaming but the viking ship-owner guy is smiling endlessly!!

Junho's Chungju art studio.

Quick shot of the our future space (not with this partition in the middle for sure)at the Seoul Musum of Arts, meeting with curator went well. i will post further info soon.

outside of the Museum!!
More the celebration plants (for Power) outside of the bbq place i found from the city of Chungju at night.

Poster: The photo collage (preview)

2007-07-30T13:59:00.001+09:00

Whoa. There it's done. It was a bit of work, heavy on the computer. I am cross-eyed from the constant zooming and organizing the hundreds of layers and going through more than a thousand photos. This is just a low-res preview for all of you to see, mind the fact that you cannot zoom in on the smallest parts, but they will all be fine on the HUGE poster that Bjørn is preparing for Seoul Museum of Art (opening August 23). Hope you like it.

Coming back to Seoul!!!

2007-07-27T03:23:00.000+09:00

I don't know if anyone's still reading this thing, but I just bought my tickets to come back to Seoul next month! Hurray!

Will be there from Aug 17- 27. Will work on the Seoul Museum of Art show and some other meetings. Feels weird, but great, to be going back so soon.

Here's hoping Power will be coming along too!

And looking forward to seeing everyone again!

The Last finishing off!!

2007-07-22T19:32:00.001+09:00

Jinjoo came to pick up her radio station gadgets the other day and finished off the painting back to white in the small room. thank you Jinjoo!!
We popped in security gear guy's office afterwards!! I found this poster on the wall!! It looks great specially with the celebration plants from The Korea National Housing Corporation.

My appreciation

2007-07-18T21:28:00.000+09:00

Dear everyone,

I would just like to say thank you for your collaboration, generousity, hospitality and enthusiasm. Even after our departure from Seoul, I have enjoyed following the blog and appreciated all your kind words and poetry! Even seeing all the collaborative labour that you have put into the de-installation of the exhibition makes me happy. I have been happy to see so many people become friends. This has all been very inspiring.

It is interesting to see how we all have been able to realize the full potential and effect of our intense time together only afterwards - I am thinking of all your blog greetings and the entries by Power and Erlend, which represent insight and appreciation that could only be understood after stepping back from the social maelstrom which we were part of during the Yeonhee-dong project.

I'd say that this trip to Seoul was one of the best times of my life. It was hectic and hard, but it was so much fun, wonderful people and friends, amazing food, endless nights, saunas, hotels, parties, more food, work, meetings, encounters, shopping and much more.

I hope that we will somehow all be able to meet again somewhere soon... let's all keep in touch.

I will finish a preface and the photo collage (with Bjørn) for the poster-publication. Then I am going to follow the preparations to the Seoul City Museum-project. I am sure that you will all make more out of that than we ever managed to do in three weeks in Yeonhee-dong!

Thank you everybody.

Always, Jan

Deinstalling: Part 4 final!!

2007-07-18T17:06:00.001+09:00

Deinstalling: Part3

2007-07-18T16:59:00.000+09:00

Deinstalling: Part2

2007-07-18T16:52:00.001+09:00

Deinstalling: Part1

2007-07-18T16:32:00.000+09:00

Sooho, Junho, Junho's painter friend, Taeeun, Taeeun's friend and Changhyun (Daniel) came to help us to deinstall the whole show....and our neighbor (security gear guy) joined later eve to clean up. reall really thank you for all of your help!! esp security gear guy cos he arranged taking the bricks away for Junho and he is also keeping the MDF boards and trestles in his storage for next show in case we might need them. isnt it sounds perfect collaboration?!

the final pics&text by kyungahham

2007-07-17T13:48:00.000+09:00

어떻게 기록하는가는 어떻게 보여주길 원하는지를결정한다. 혼돈도 관찰하는 자에게 드러난다.역사는 반드시 누군가에 의해 씌여지고.... 해석되어진다.

전시장내 구조물과 무언가를 하는 사람들을 다큐멘트하였다. 벽에 드리워진 사람들과 사물, 구조들의 그림자를 따라 그리고 시간을기록하였다. 분명 네 명의 방문객들은 사각의 테이블 각 면에 앉아 함께 일하고 있었는데 벽에 드리워진 그들의 그림자는사면의 벽에 각기 떨어져 드리워져있었다. 나의 다큐먼트는 사실과는 다른 사각지대를 드러냈다. 객관성도, 역사도, 질서도,혼돈도, 정직성도 모두 상대적인것인가

Soojung's text in three sentences

2007-07-16T15:45:00.000+09:00

바벨탑.

나는 할말이 없다 그러나

나는 한가지만 말하고 싶다 그러나

나는 많은 말을 하고 싶다 그러나......

Babel Tower

I have nothing to say but

I want to say only one thing but

I wish I could say a lot but......

꾸벅.

English version of Jaejun 's text in three sentences

2007-07-16T15:33:00.000+09:00

between

"Opening the relationships. Jooyoung, Jan, Bjorn, Power and other participants open up their relationships. Our values are put in the relationships through sharing the significance of unification. Being covered by relationships. We are drawn, moved, used, and added on the values of unification. We see the community from 195 as a group."

Special thanks to

Kyung-Jin Woo, Yoon Geunju

Translated by Eunhee Park

Late Blogging!

2007-07-16T11:43:00.000+09:00

yeh..... I konw it is too late to start blogging but I realized that today is the last day for 195 blogging...
Even I'm not sure I am doing right or not ....I'm too beginner....

You Know What?.....
Actually I miss all of you guys , all the 195 things soooooooooo much
It was Great memory (include car accident in Hong Dae :))

Oh. It's time to go to work~
I think I write more after I come back 'in' today

State of exceptional experimentation [updated with example]

2007-07-16T04:14:00.000+09:00

Even after three, four days after leaving Seoul and the project space I am still too close to the situation and the workshop itself to be able to take a step back and with a deep breath analyze the situation we were in and to summarize it. With that said I doubt that this will ever be the case anyhow in the near future. I'm a bit lost in space. Erlend has though already identified many points of the process and has grasped them in his posting.

One of his points in his most recent blogpost is “The art product as excuse for setting up social relationships”. What a great deal many art councils and supporting foundations of arts has already grasped is that social relationships within the arts is the ground foundation towards a healthy, generous and flexible art world, and opening up the national borders for social relationships and exchanges with residencies and travel grants for artists and curators across borders encourages and generates new cross fertilizations. What art councils and foundations still not yet have grasped in its total is that this does not always come with a product of art that one is able to see or touch. Many national governments still finds the fact hard to comprehend that if you hand out cash to artists and curators that enable them to travel, drink, have fun and to engage in different relational situations, it actually increases the gross national product at the end of the day in a fruitful relationship as weird as it may seem. Culture hardly ever comes on the top priorities of governments unless it is about a “cultural revolution” or something (again with those communistic references…). Foundations are always looking into ready products and measurable results in a close knitted relationship; value for money.

Thankfully though (as strange as it seems to be writing this after complaining about bumps in my back from various hard floors) there are not so many founders to this project – which gave us the luxurious freedom to experiment. This is most likely the most intriguing result of our work shop and it needs to be emphasized. Had we had more obligations towards expecting foundations about measurable results there would have been less result when it comes to hard core experimentation and an increased process base. We would have been worried about the documentation images, how the texts were formulated and would not have been able to as freely engage and develop the project – which in one way was all about confusion or with uncertainty as well as a leveling of positions, art works and artists. A confusion about authorship, but also a generousity to pick up a thread in someone's piece and turn it into something else - in a joint collaboration. Who had done what in the end became both uninteresting and blurred.

The state of uncertainty and total confusion that in a sort of way we experienced can be transformed into a thought about “creative chaos”. I’m not yet altogether sure what went on for three weeks in Seoul really, but that it was creative is for sure, and chaotic with all certainty. A state of process and exception which was experimental to say the least. It really stirred up a lot of thoughts about hierarchies and powerstructures in a country where refined tones in the Korean launguage itself, developed over centuries, show awe and respect towards someone with higher "rank" than one self.

It is emblematic that we have not really written on the blog about the art pieces in the show - it has been a bit problematic since we have avoided to have singular art pieces in the show that could be mistaken for "masterpieces". I'll make use of an example that maybe will clearify a bit. While writing on this blog in Yeonhee-Dong 195 I also had my Skype-account up and my artist friend back in Stockholm, Allen Grubesic asked me how things went in Seoul. While explaining that we were constantly adding artists from Korea to the workshop I said it was an open call for anyone interested to participate and that the concept was about interference in other's work. Allen picked up on this and wanted to throw in something that might be picked up by someone. He sent a quickly made design with two golfers in the foreground about to scream fore, and a little man in the back ground who was either about to be hit by a ball or to be hit by the golf clubs. The style reminded me about the poster for antoher project that had come up the very same day for the video project by Eunji Cho. This project is about the so called "national gymnastic song" that all the Korean people are well acquainted with since all the school kids started the day by doing gymnastics to this very tune. Bjørn Kowalski Hansen made the lay-out for a poster and the musician Kyunghyun Min made a remake of the song that was played during the pre-opening and filmed by Eunji and for the opening the video was runned on a monitor. Visitors who didn't participate in the pre-opening were a bit confused since they wondered if the shot were taken during the opening or not, but it couldn't have since the wall behind the "gymnasts" were completely changed...

I printed Allen's contribution in blackanwhite and hung it temporarily next to the poster. Jooyoung asked about the new contribution and she picked up on it - she asked me out of the blue how the heck Allen could know so much about the Korean society - she obviously read more into the image than I could even begin to comprehend. I knew from Allen that Koreans are madly in love with golfing (which was why he decided to make this design), and I suspected that it was a sport done by the "upper class" much like in Europe but had no idea about Allen's deeper connections and told her that I knew nothing. Jooyoung triggered loads of thoughts - to a Korean film (that I forgot the name of, help me Jooyoung?) and she wanted to add a word that seems to be in a way knit to the National gymnastic song in a way, at least conceptually, namely the word 입신양명 that means "Rising in the world and gaining fame". This word is something that has been used as a kind of "slogan" for the Korean people for a long time, remembering them about what should be done in the future. She told me that a sociologist had made research about this word and how it was used and that he came to a conclusion about another "slogan" used in the old days (can't remember again here Jooyoung...), when Korea was a dynasty of emperors, which was a totally different, about being happy with the little things that maybe more to the point for Korean life. Quite the opposite of the "Rising-word". We talked about this for a while and I think I was the one who convinced her to in the end add the "Rising in the world-word" instead of the older slogan, making it a tad more ironic and quickly read. She decided to add the English translation too. Bjørn Kowalski again was called upon to add some layout - he added the colour and the ring around the image, and Jan Christensen made a layer on the text, making it a little more difficult to read and comprehend in its total. When the poster came two days later an art piece was made with multiple artists behind it. It is no longer important who made what in the singular piece - it was about a process that was successful in making a piece that we all agreed upon made perfect sense in this setting - putting a finger to exactly the hierarchy-issues, the "flat structure" within the project, the openness towards different interpretations and lastly putting a finger upon the reason why an artist would like to be the single "author" of an art piece - to go out into the world and rising fame, sometimes like a golfer swinging his/hers club towards the "little guy". It is also emblematic that the result is a poster lying in the gallery for people to take. "Low art" with a generous twist.

There is a radical force in the fact that even though every one was confused within the experiment, that no one really knew what the heck was happening and what would be the result of it but even so continued to work side by side without complains but instead cheerful enthusiasm. There are only two reasons for continuation when something like that happens: love or/and a curiosity and awareness for the fundamental interest the project in itself has the potentiality of producing in the end. I believe both reasons were manifest in this project with a double grip. Together we succeeded in creating an environment of love, respect, equality and creativeness within a bubble of our own. I.e.: without obligations towards an art product or a result able to be measured or weighed. (and NO, I did not just now have a spliff or anything, I really mean this!)

It would be truly intriguing to take this creative chaos to the next level in yet another step of the research project about how this work in progress is managed. To be able to make an exchange in yet another level, to host a continued workshop in Norway/Sweden/Germany with the same Korean group and with the same intentions as to interfere with each other, obtaining a “flat powerless structure” whatever that means and increase creative, artistic chaos into yet another tweaked situation for a deepened “result” for whatever that means. The outcome of the Seoul workshop are deep friendships, sense of belonging with each other, and a very long line of both missed and established and yet to come opportunities of interest, faith and future engagements – and not least importantly a taste of something completely different and quite new. I’d like to propose to warp it yet another round with 1000 ideas and 100.000 combinations if it would be possible. Not saying this would be resulting in something measurable at all – I doubt it – so the possibilities of getting funding for a project like this would be rather slim, unless there are some official out there with an exceptional open mind and true passion for art. Not sure my body, mind, soul and heart can take yet another round of confusion though, being the total control-freak I am. But I’m nore than willing to give it a shot because of the double grip of a love/passion and awareness about the serious state of exceptional experimentation that surprisingly enough (to a sceptic like myself) opened up before my eyes like a utopian abyss - unexplored and extremely fascinating.

The final text by Jinjoo Kim

2007-07-16T02:42:00.000+09:00

연희동 195에서,

프리 오프닝(2007년 7월 3일)의 소리,

라디오를 타고 흐르는(2007년 7월 4일-15일), 동등, 연결, 관계, 끊임 없이, 시작!

In Yeonhee-dong 195,
The pre-opening(3/July/2007) sounds
Flow from the radio, 4/July/2007-15/July/2007, equal, link, relation, without a pause, start!

On 15th of July after 6pm

2007-07-16T01:52:00.000+09:00

Around 5pm today at the space i was about to wrapping things up. some of works are already taken down by itself e.g Eunji's poster!!. Junho taken his drawing and wood works down. thanks god that we got nothing stolen from the 26 x catalogues of Seoul City Museum's loan. As they are need to be returned to them by next week. otherwise i will not have my passport back.

A bunch of Sooho's friends from his church came to see the show with a big van and some others from Local. while they are looking around the show, Sooho and his designer friends are seriously readlng Norwegian news papers. they even wanted take some of the paper with them afterwards!! do you understand the language?! i said YES. im sure they 'd start learning Norewegian soon huh!!

The final text by Sooho Jo both Korean and English

2007-07-16T01:30:00.000+09:00

1. 전시 자체가 하나의 커다란 작품.
2. 살아있는듯 했다. 우리가 그리고 그 공간이, 공간안에 모든 것들이, 작가들에 모든 의해서.
3. 우리는 좋은 친구들은 갖게 되었다.

1.Exhibition itself is a big art work.
2.We and the space, even the tiny fragments of the space, all seemed alive by artists.
3.We got many good friends.

The final Pics& Text by JaeJun Lee

2007-07-16T01:13:00.000+09:00

I got the pics from the architect Jaejun lee by email today and his short comments about the show: between

"관계를 열다. 주영, 얀, 비욘, 그리고 파워, 그리고 다른 모든 참여자들과 함께 서로간의 관계를 열어본다. 관계에 놓이다. 함께할 수 있는 가치를 공유하면서 새로운 관계 속에 저마다의 가치가 놓여진다. 관계에 묻히다. 함께한 가치위에 그려지고, 옮겨지고, 사용되며 또다시 더해간다. 객체는 사라지고 전체로 존재한다. 그렇게 195에서 커뮤니티를 본다.

special thanks to 우경진, 윤근주"

these pics are need to be used for the part of our final publicaition. his text in English verison will be sent to Jan V. soon.

These are the days of miracle and wonder

2007-07-14T23:17:00.000+09:00

So. I'm back in Norway. At the moment actually at my parents place in Våler, a small, small place outside a small, small city called Moss, not so far from the relatively small city of Oslo. It's raining. It's 15 degrees outside. Tonight I'm going out with a bunch of old non-artworld friends. Hey, this blog suddenly got real blogg-y, huh?

It's weird to be here, we've been discussing it on e-mail, that we all feel like it's just a little break and that we will all soon be back at the gallery at Jeeonheedong, surfing the web, going to the bathroom on the roof, talking to the security camera guy, ordering food, smiling at locals walking by, eating Pringles, drinking, skyping each other and others, talking about art, talking about comfort, talking about each other. Bjørn will be thinking up t-shirt slogans, Jan will be answering e-mails about future exhibitions, Power will be writing texts and letting us in on all the juicy gossip she is somehow privy to, Jooyoung will be talking on the phone saying "neeee" a lot.

I'm listening to Paul Simon's "Graceland", this weird and wonderful album where the ex-Garfunkel compadre teamed with a bunch of "world musicians" (i.e. Africans) and I'm sure he had an idea that the recording process would be some kind of flat structure, I'm sure the Africans were confused, I'm sure Paul Simon was too. How the hell did anyone come up with the idea of putting those 80s sounding trumpet sounds on the same track as that African-inspired rhythm-section? It's a thing of beauty, maybe it's the best album of the 80s, even more, I'd say one of the finest documents of late 20th Century Western culture I know. It sounds super-dated and totally timeless at the same time. That's such a piece of art criticism hyperbole bullshit. Yet it's completely true. It's impossible not to fall in love to it, with it, from it. With everyone involved, everyone who is sucked into your world while you're in its world. In every paradox there is a grain of selv-evidence. Chevy Chase (my favourite actor, he's soooo due for some kind of Bill Murray-style cred-comeback, yet it would be completely right if this never happens) in the video for "You Can Call Me Al" is like an American Jon Skolmen, the great Norwegian actor whose face graces one of Bjørn's Håkki-shirts.

Various elements of the concept, problems and ideals:
- The art product as excuse for setting up social relationships.
- Intensified discrepancies between the curatorial concept and the artist’s feeling of what it is they actually do.
- Vagueness as a way to remove the potential for antagonism.
- Uncertainty as to the general level of consensus within the group.
- Uncertainty as giving the appearance of consensus.
- Decision-making as creative boost.
- Decisions made by authorities or when reporting to authorities.
- Lack of authorities leading to lack of decisions.
- Lack of decisions to be made resulting in lack of creativity.
- Lack of research as a way of achieving flat structure.
- Flat structure as attempt at breaking down the centre – periphery dichotomy that everyone used to be so interested in, but which is now (apparently) unhip again.
- Idea: Make a barometer that measures the distance of the “centre – periphery question” from any given centre or periphery.

Favourite old school attempts at dealing with centre- periphery:

1) Rosenkrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead. What was Guildenstern doing when Polonius was giving his monologue on Hamlet's aflictions? He was annoying Rosencrantz with a collection of impressive animal sounds. A man talking sense to himself is no madder than a man talking nonsense not to himself.

2) “The Zeppo”, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, season 3 episode 13. Xander starts off the episode by almost getting killed by some kind of demon. He is told to stay out of the way of battle and while the other Scoobies spend the rest of the episode fighting off one of the (apparently) most serious threats to Sunnydale ever, Xander tries to find his “thing”, gets into lots of trouble with a penis-metaphor driving zombie, and most importantly, gets laid for the first time. While Buffy is fighting back a huge demon in the library Xander is facing one of his own. “You up for it?” Faith asks seductively. Then comes a top-shelf highlight from the genius book of Xander one-liners: “Oh, I’m up….I'm suddenly very up....It’s just I’ve never been up with people before.” In all, though, the message is simple: the centre is wherever you decide to put your focus, and everyone has their own focus, so there is no centre. There is no need for one, and we don't need consensus. Consensus isn’t necessarily bad or to be avoided. We just need to agree on when we need it and when we can do without it. With art, we can do without it most of the time.

3) The Ballad of Nikki and Paolo. The long-awaited episode on Nikki and Paolo. In the middle of a slow beginning to season three, Lost fans everywhere were mostly interested in one aspect of the show: why the hell had the writers introduced these two useless characters? Everyone knew. They were set up to be horribly killed so as to satisfy the bloodthirst of an audience who couldn’t tolerate the shift of focus onto someone with whom we had not yet emotionally invested in on a sufficient level. But it’s really a joke on the audience by the producers. Because even though we all hate Nikki and Paolo and want their horrible death scene (and we get it, albeit in a suspended way, which makes it even better/ worse), what really happens is something else. By the end of the episode their deaths are loaded with more meaning, more pathos and more downright sadness than most any other death on the show. (Remember Shannon, okay wasn’t so bad, but Boon or that Latin girl? Who really cared? Also, the emotional weight of Nikki and Paolo’s deaths may well be seen as previewing the one truly heartbreaking death so far on the show, namely that of the hobbit. (Who it must be said, has usually been far more annoying than N & P ever were.) So what have we learned from this; that no matter how we perceive the centre-periphery to begin with, shifting the focus can also give us the chance to experience something which is a lot more interesting than is to be expected.

The Yeeonhee-Dong 195 Residency Project was about temporarily shifting the focus. Nobody believes that what we did there will gain any significant amount of attention, nor should we want it to or feel that this would be necessary to somehow make the project valid. Attention does not equal worth. Worth does not automatically merit attention. Attention can detract from worth. This is the story of how we begin to remember.

images for catalog

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web_02

web_01

'web_constellation_people'

special thanks to haejun park, eunok hur, seul mi kim

Quiet 195

2007-07-13T19:43:00.001+09:00

Having a last meeting at the space with Jinyoung Jung.
Having a last Korean supper and meeting about the publication. Power came up with a great idea of making a large poster. brillant!!
Here is a couple of Hakki's sisters which i found on the table. where is Hakki's brother?!
Yesterday Jinjoo came to the gallery to check her radio station before she set off to Japan. and her friend came to see the show.
Pretty quiet table!!
Soyeon and i had lunch the other day. she is so excited writing about our project. look fwd to reading it!!

Thank you!!

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Thank you Jan!

Thank you Jooyoung!

Thank you all participants!!

Thank you all for your warm generosity!

Thank you Seoul!

This has been an experience of a lifetime!!

Warrrrrped!

2007-07-13T06:26:00.000+09:00

The mastermind himself

Now I’m back in the Northern hemisphere, not quite in my hometown Stockholm yet – still on the road – but never the less: out of Seoul. I feel lonely. I feel tired. I feel a wreck without my compadres in the work shop! Splitting up from Seoul with a last night out was interesting but a bit sad. Saying good bye to Jooyoung felt unreal, it was kind of “I’m seeing her tomorrow anyway”. Splitting up with Jan and Bjørn in Frankfurt was like “They are going to grab a bite, I’ll see them later” and hugging Erlend farewell in Copenhagen was like saying good night or something. After a night when waking up in the middle of the night worrying about where the rest of the bunch had gone from the bed was the last token of my reluctant coming back to myself again. I’m like a part of a cell that has been split. This is the final achievement of Jan’s! Complete success. How can I retain my personality when I hardly can remember what it was before Seoul? And how much has it changed, and in what way/direction since? And what does that mean? Is it good or bad? Or completely uninteresting?

Some things should be blogged about before leaving the blog to itself though.

First some general remarks about our life in Seoul.

Money does not matter. Or it does, but not much. I mean… well, first of all, you need cash to survive in Seoul. To use a credit card will add 15% to your tab, so you need cash everywhere. 65 Norwegian kroner equals 10.000 wons. If you exchange even a small amount of Scandinavian bills into Wons you’ll end up with a pile of 10.000 greens in a pimpy envelope in your hand. There is just no way of having a sound relationship with a stack like that. Either you feel extremely rich and start spend like crazy or you feel like you just won some cash in the Monopoly game and spend like crazy coz you know its not for real anyway. At the end of the day you’ll have spent a ridiculous amount of money – either ridiculously low or ridiculously much.

Food seems to be an issue for veggie foreigners like me. For those of you who has followed the blog here knows that my fellow bloggers has been mobbing me about my eating habits. Yes, I’ve hailed the nutritious Pringles from time to time, not out of a completely convinced mind but out of necessity. See – its not easy to order if you don’t speak Korean, and even if you speak Korean there are not many dishes on the menu that actually are pork-, chicken- or fish-less. And then there is kim chi. For those of you who still don’t know what kim chi is: find out. For those of you who don’t like kim chi: it takes time for some, but eventually you’ll be convinced about its greatness. It grows on you. And yes – you start to smell like kim chi after eating it.

Hierarchies have been a topic on our minds as you by now know. Being the oldest of the Scandinavian group as well as the only lady and additionally with some inherent diva princess attitude I have obviously stirred up some strong feelings in the Korean group about me taking care of the guy’s (my babies’) laundry. I’ve heard from several Korean participants in the workshop about how unheard of this is. I am fighting to make completely sense of it, but from what I understand, this is something very Scandinavian of me. This in turn makes me think about the quote “How very Scandinavian of me to think that I could organize freedom”. But to be honest – Jan, Bjørn and Erlend in particular were quite reluctant to leave their laundry to me. Why? Because of social hierarchies? Not sure. I’ve no problems with doing laundry, mine or others, if it is needed – why should I? Because I’m female and should be worried the other’s might place me in a “woman’s trap”? Bogus, I drink them all under the table anytime and have bigger balls than most of them anyway. Even if I happen to be the “big mama” – or “Mrs Hammer” with “Baby Bjørn” as our rampant little kid.

Jan’s lecture at Art Sonje for the personnel of the exhibition space where he’ll have an exhibition later this year about his art. Erlend and I had the pleasure to be around for it. Once again Erlend and I could conclude that the Korean art scene is completely gender fixed to be all about women. There are just no men in the art world at all – at least not that we have encountered. This is of course something about hierarchies too that needs to be figured out...

The Etiquette Belle installed in different bathrooms (at least for women). The bizarreness of the Etiquette Belle for me can best be announced in a Norwegian word best not translated: “prompe-skjuler”. What happens when you push the button is that you’ll hear a strong sound of a toilet flushing for approx three minutes. It is supposed to make the toilet a nicer environment.

The electronic market is pure heaven for geeks like me without much cash. All I can say is: yummy!

The aftermath post opening can most likely best be described with this image:

연희동 새 국민체조

2007-07-13T00:23:00.000+09:00

Enjoy the 70's left overs in Yeonhee-dong!

연희동 새 국민체조 by 조은지, 비욘 코왈스키 한센, 민경현

Yeonhee-dong national Gymnastic

by Eunji Cho,

Bjorn-Kowalski Hansen,

Kyunghyun Min

images

2007-07-12T03:32:00.000+09:00

pre-opening sounds from the radio

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In Yeonhee-dong 195,
the pre-opening(3/July/2007) sounds
flow from the radio, 4/July/2007-12/July/2007.

Blogging again

2007-07-10T18:15:00.000+09:00

Finally: super special fun-time blogging from the roof!

Where have the last days gone? Everything feels like total crazy town, my speaking and writing skills feel ruined in some way, and Bjørn, Power, Jan and I are now all staying in the same room at the Marriot and we're flying home tomorrow. The opening on Saturday was, I think, a great success, with many of our new friends, and also a few strangers that we had not met before, coming along for the party.

Earlier in the day we did an interesting interview with Benjamin Kaplan of the Native Gaze web-site, an interview which will be very cool to read as it seemed to really follow a path that was unstructured and adventurous in much the same way as the rest of our project. I'd link to his web site, but linking on Blogger is really annoying and I can never remember the code and I'd have to cut and paste and what not. And besides I saw that Power just linked to it below, on her post, so check it out from there.

During the opening I also stood outside talking to Lina Kunimoto we noticed how, from the outside of the gallery, the show kind of looked like a Jan Christensen exihibition.

Also, during the opening, met an interesting Danish fellow who was vice president of some kind of division of some kind of company here and who wanted to buy Soo-Jung Choi’s painting because, as he said, it perfectly matched his brand new [Danish design brand here] couch. What the hell? Here I am thinking we’re doing process-based relational aesthetics, and this guy is matching our art with his furniture. That was very nice.

It's really windy up here on the roof right now. Yesterday, Power mentioned that there is a really big tropical storm on the way over from China, hopefully it won't interfer with our leaving tomorrow. Currently cyclone strenght.

Other stuff that has happened. Before Bjørn's second gig at Bar Nana last Friday (which was unfortunately cut short as a result of technical difficulties) I was finally able to go for a swim in the hotel pool, which was very nice as the diet we've been keeping here really hasn't been doing any of us any favours. Except maybe Power who seems perfectly capable of staying fit while enjoying Pringles as her main dietary component. In my case, I really need to get home to get back into some kind of running routine, and I need spelt walnutbread from Vårt daglige brød. And I need soy milk. No more fried stuff.

Yesterday I bought a bottle of Barbera d’Alba by Bruno Giacosa (my favourite everyday wine Slightly overpriced at 39 000 wons, but still worth it, and it was the 2003 which I’m not sure I’ve had before. Beautifully and one of the few reds I can imagine drinking without food) which Power, Bjørn and I enjoyed in our room before going out to dinner in Kangnam, the area that Jan has been raving about as having Blade Runner-like architecture (true) and restaurants over three floors in every building (also true). We did, however, again get somewhat burned by the fact that Koreans, for some strange reason, eat dinner very early. So when we showed up at about 23.00 most places were closed or closing. Ate some pretty average Korean stuff, and then went to an "Irish pub" called Sapporo Lion. Very uninteresting place, so we left quickly. Then went to another place, which was better, perhaps only because it served Power the whiskey she wanted and the rest of pitchers of Miller.

Other stuff:

Power loves Richard Quest, the travel correspondent for CNN. Power also likes the bad guy in the Mummy, and this Iraqi correspondent (also at CNN) who really looks like Suge Knight.

What are the socio-economic consequences (benefits/ drawbacks) of hotels providing wine openers on request instead instead of including one in every room?

A while ago, during dinner at the lovely restaurant Marrakech Nights in Itaewon, Jan introduced me to someone as very creative for a non-artistic person, to which I replied that Jan was very artistic for a non-creative person.

Frustrations at finding stuff from labels such as Alexander McQueen or Martin Margiela only to remember, time and again, that this stuff is a good 30% more expensive here than back in Europe. Then again, the stuff here can’t be found in Oslo.

In my draft that was deleted last week I also wrote a long bit on the, for me, newly discovered fact that writers for international art magazines really do not make any money. You always hear this, but I always thought that it meant that writers were poorly paid compared to everyone else. In terms of the only experience I’ve had myself, however, it’s kind of true. Except I was told that I would be getting an actually pretty decent fee which then, for the following 7 months and counting, for some reason just hasn’t shown up in my bank account. But 50 bucks for a review in Art Forum? What do they spend all their ad money on?

Highlights from AFN – Armed Forces Network
- Where to sit on planes that make it more likely to surive
- The importance, and easiness, of exercise
- How to get to Incheon airport using the special army
- Personal ads to learn playing bass guitar
- Ads for mudfest trips

Farewell gathering tonight

2007-07-10T18:00:00.000+09:00

Hello everyone, thanks for a great opening the other night. Please let's try to meet out somewhere tonight, as Bjørn, Jan, Power and I are going back to Europe tomorrow. We are going out for dinner and drinks in Hongdae, around 7 or 8. Not completely decided on the details yet, so just call one our phones to found out more.

Posting this from Tae Eun's lovely chair while the sounds of our pre-opening are playing from the little blue and orange room. Bjørn, Power and Jan are busy doing various kinds of blog or publication-work, which I should be doing too. So there will be more stuff on the blog in a few hours, and it's going to be good to read all your wrap-up thoughts there as well. In the meantime, be well everyone and hope to see as many as possible tonight.

klmz,
Erlend

Post Opening Trauma

2007-07-10T15:02:00.000+09:00

Well well well... I've been away from the blog and from the project space as well as Internet as a whole for a couple of days - since the opening in fact. Now I'm back and it is definitely time for a recap of what has happened and what has not. I do have a problem though, earlier dubbed as the "Groundhog-day-problem": all the days look the same in a way and still - sooo many things happen all at once and I even have troubles remembering even the funniest things. We have talked about this syndrome within the group and we all pretty much feel the same. A typical conversation could be:

"Do you remember that person we met at that place that we went, you know, on Tuesday or Wednesday or something?"

"What? Do you actually mean that you can discern Tuesday from Wednesday? And if so, you mean that you actually remember what went on on either of the days?"

"Oh, no not really..."

But first things first.

Opening.

A late night before (Kowalski spinning at Bar Nana and some Itaewan clubbing afterwards) made for a late morning for Erlend, Bjørn and myself, but we arrived in time to be interviewed by Benjamin Kaplan for his webpage THE NATIVE GAZE (not up just yet), install speakers and sound system and to tidy up the space just a tad. Even before the opening visitors turned up to the projectspace 195. The kitchen on our second floor with "Mama" in charge (we love her unanimously by the way) had prepared some delicious food for the guests and we had some free beer too. Jan was in charge of the DJ set downstairs and he was a happy teacher to anyone interested in knowing how it works to mix some music. I was running around trying to ensure that everyone had a good time and that everything was running smoothly. At one point there were more than 80 people in the space simultaneously. Most of us were on the top floor drinking beer and mingling about. Erlend introduced me to curator Henk Slager (image below somewhere from our chat) and at one point my good friend Alain Siebert with his good friend that I will name "Peter the Dane" showed up and I kind of spent the rest of the evening around these two guys. At one point we moved on to our hostess bar in Hong-dae where we had some more drinks together with the four cats and made more serious conversations about art.

The anecdotes of the evening are way too many to start gossiping about, additionally I don't even remember many of them. I hope and trust that Erlend will give his version that will in turn help me remember the things I should write down and I will: later. As for now I'll post some images from the opening.

입신양명(rising in the world and gaining fame)

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installation

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opening party

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in the kitchen

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Opening pics

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혹시 이 분 아시는분 계시나요? 이분이 김선정씨 소개로 프리오프닝과 오프닝에 오셨는데, 이분 성함을 알고 싶어서요. 아시는분 저한테 메일jooyounglee24@hotmail.com으로 알려주심 감사해요.

The police came to check our show loved our party and they even more encouraged us to continue this project. so the party had to go on till midnight!!
Dancing Art!! The Poster of 입신양명(yibshin yangmyung) means, "Rising in the world and Gaining fame"(in English). it is completely upside down, inversed and reversed. The original image is contributed by Swedish artist Allen Grubesic via Power last week and afterwards Bjorn, Jan and myself worked on it.

Walking art!! this pale purple-ish text is spray painted on the t-shirts, doen by Bjorn. it says a little bit better than Jesus, but not as good as God in Swedish. apparently that 's worst art ever done by Bjorn.
Thanks to Jonny and Jordan for Djing!! and Tae Eun is making sure everything ok for the party.

Preparation

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Cut cut cut!!

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My name should be written 'JewJong' not 'Jooyoung'. How about Suho?
Sub-text "we should send all foreign guys away to have our girls back". and Junho wood cut next.
Jan's drop!!
Sooho holding a stencil cut 'i just want to leave here and become a foreigner forever'. Sooho is great stencil artist. i will have to make sure he is continuing stencil for out next move.

Eunji's poster cut out!

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Peace love and new glasses

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Bjørn's second gig at Bar Nana

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Two hats.

Metal jaws!!!

The oldest phone in South Korea.

Talking art.

Kwon, Jun Ho (details of his installation)

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work...work..

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Too much!

2007-07-06T21:53:00.001+09:00

If it was possible to take a picture of all the craziness that is going on here at one time I'd do it, but there are just wayyy too many things that happens all at once that a picture could not capture. One thing is the smell from spray paint, the smell from wet wall paint, the crazy people running around and trying to help people but are instead being a bit annoying and then there are also people hurting themselves on falling art pieces... Not forgetting the friendly neighbour who wants to share his music with us. Lionel Richie's "Say You, Say Me" on the highest volume is not quite what I can take at the moment. Will we have an opening here tomorrow? And before that a wild night at Bar Nana? I really don't know... Maybe I'll just escape to the mountain of pillows at the Marriott and leave crazy to crazy before I'll join in the craziness...

The radio show!

2007-07-06T19:07:00.000+09:00

Since Bjørn obviously keeps "forgetting" to post a link to the radio show that he participated in on Cheeky Monkey Radio I guess I just have to do it... HERE's the link, go listen immediately guys, to have some kind of impression about what we'll be dancing to tonight at Bar Nana!

From non-hotel to the five star Marriott

2007-07-06T15:49:00.000+09:00

An anecdote worth mentioning apropos our never-ending story about lodging during the Seoul-stay occurred upon arrival to the Leeum Samsung Museum opening of the show “Flash Cube” the other day. The man of the hour; the artist Thomas Demand (image of him below) who participated with huge pieces in the show, came up to me and greeted me with a smile on his face and said “Hello Power, rumour has it you moved out of your lodging – it wasn’t to your pleasing I’ve heard?” to which I replied with an astonished “Oh dear, how on earth did you hear about that?” even before I could congratulate him for the show – and he stated quite calmly with a smirk on his face that “Well, the whole town hasn’t been talking about anything else you know, it has been inevitable not to hear about it…”. I guess that the “jimjilbang-trauma” of our little group has now officially entered not only the World Wide Web by the help of our blog, but also into the international art world circuit of gossips.

Now the lives of Erlend, Bjørn and myself has turned upside down as we are now lodged at the Marriott, thanx to the wonderful help of Tae Eun Choi and her friend that works on the Marriott who managed to get us a super great rate at the hotel. I’m now referred to by the desk clerk of the reception as “Mrs Hammer” (not complaining about that - "Mrs Power Hammer"is quite a good name, althoug not as good as "Mrs Power Drill" perhaps, but one cannot have everything) and I am cushioned up with far too many cushions in the largest bed ever made (actually, one would be able to build a fort with the pillows, a thought that has a certain appeal to me… maybe I’ll initiate a pillow war tonight upon the hotel return with my fellow new room-mates Mr Hammer and Mr Hansen…). I’m now quite a happy camper, albeit slightly poorer. What a difference a bed makes.