APAP performance

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!!

New Sound gallery in Hongdae

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

By popular demand

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

Kimchi alla Stockholm

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?

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!!

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!!

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!!