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
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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!!

유클리드의 산책전 관객분과 미술관 스탭님들께!!

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,
이미지나 글 아래 "COMMENTS" 를 바로 클릭하셔도 자동으로 코멘트를 남기실수 있습니다. (아이디나 패스워드없이)

감사합니다

연희동 195 프로젝트

More Pics from the Seoul Museum of Arts

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

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!!)