'Publicly Speaking' and video trolleys.

'Publicly Speaking' is now open at Shibuya Tokyo Wondersite. An exchange and residency between SSamzie Space Seoul and AIT, this project involves three Japanese and three Korean artists working around ideas of what the 'public' can mean today within cities and the realm of art. I was 'curator in charge' within AIT, so spent much time with the artists and conceptualising aspects of the exhibition, including creating a photocopied index archive of texts, flilers and images related to the public which is included within the exhibition as an extended kind of wall label and resource. A couple of images from the show::
A shot of the main gallery, with index archive reading area in the foreground, small monitor video works on push carts in middle and T-shirt works by Hiro Mori at rear.
  Detail of 'Rideshare' double monitor video work by Kazz Sasaguchi and Hiro Mori. Placing the monitors on small push carts makes them mobile and echoes the video itself which includes scenes from a driving instruction around Seoul.
There will be a public forum on Sept. 10th at the exhibition, with artist Masato Nakamura, Director of Wondersite Yusaku Imamura, artist Hiroharu Mori and myself, moderated by Yuko Ozawa (AIT), looking into new public art practices of the late 1990s and socially engaged art. The session will be held in Japanese.
'Publicly Speaking' closes September 11.

Comments

[N,Kawamoto]

It very interesting exhibition !
I'd like to go it !,but I can't......