Trashed!!

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

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

Juhyun Cho, curator from the Museum.

TOMORROW

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

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!!