ⓒ Chung Seo Young
The Adventure of Mr. Kim and Mr. Lee
Mr. Kim: It was a really big boulder. He was to leave soon. After a brawl with someone he was just about to leave in a hurry.
Mr. Lee: So it’s not a song to sing to the light wind of the likes of the dust blowing. But I see that he is looking at the greasy sweat spread on his loyal forehead as if he is in a trance.
Mr. Kim: So, your knee broke after two rounds of rotation.
Mr. Lee: I will cut out a tip of your hat.
LIG Art Hall www.ligarthall.com
8 p.m.~10p.m. Thursday 22nd – Friday 23rd April 2010
6 p.m.~8 p.m. Saturday 24th April 2010
Admission Free
Director / Artist: Chung Seo Young
Curator: Jang Un Kim
Performers: Alag Aduu An Sang Sun Davaa, Daegun Go, Eyo Woo, Ham Jeong Sik, Hong Ji Eun, Im Ho Kyoung, Jin Shiu, Kim Ji Sun, Lee Jung , Shin Min Jung,
Hosted by LIG Arts Foundation, 719 Factory
Produced by 719 Factory
* This is a continuous performance. Audiences will receive brief information about the performance at the lobby desk, then be guided to enter into the theater through different gateways with a headphone and an mp3 player. At the moment audiences enter into the theater putting on the headphone, the performance “begins.” Entrance is allowed only thirty minutes before the ending of the performance.
“The Adventure of Mr. Kim and Mr. Lee” by Chung Seo Young begins in the form of drawing and installation, then transforms into performing arts. In her past projects, Chung has created a strange landscape of language, object, and our human condition in everyday life represented with cold humour. Her approach makes these elements into strange (uncanny) multiscapes by combining aspects of the sculptural and the everyday objects. Her interest expands as to encompass the issues surrounding the incommensurability between linguistic operation (as a semiotic system) and reality (as a lived experience). If she has so far revealed the chasm between the symbolic and the real by examining the structured meanings, now she pushes the boundaries of her artistic interests and attitude by taking a form of theatrical performance. A unserious seriousness, meaningless meaning, and a humorless humor demonstrated in previous sculptures, installations, drawings all integrates in this performance with the living objects in the theater space- on site.
The Adventure of Mr. Kim and Mr. Lee
On a large-scale paper Chung drew (wrote) a discontinuous conversation between the two men. The drawing does not show or tell any specific event but is instead structured in the form of abstract texts. While looking at the fragmented pieces of words – conversation – we can experience the absurdity, violence, and discontinuity of life.
The performance is made up with anti-narrative stories, disjointed events without a sense of cause-and-effect. This is situated in between reality and un-reality (theatricality), leaving both the audiences and the performers in the liminal space between the inside and the outside – the theater and the world. In this sense, Mr. Kim and Mr. Lee may not only refer to the performers but they could be mirrored images of our own situated in our daily lives. The surreal moments that we experience in daily lives deconstructively operates in theater, or, the world. The purpose of this performance is to disclose the sense of confusion about the world, which indicates the theater. This feeling of confusion and disruption will estrange the illusion of ideology, and serve to expose the un-reality of the world in which we live in the mode of theatrical performance.
A Living Object: A Transformation not as Disguise but as Symptom
There are nine characters in the performance: a young man #1, a young man #2, a young small woman disguised as a child, a young man disguised as a monster, a dog and its owner, a young woman disguised as an old woman, an Asian man disguised as a western man, a young man disguised as a young woman, and a middle-aged woman disguised as a middle-aged man. However, the performers do not “act” – they are situated in the space of theater as a living object/sculpture or as a moment of deconstructive events. We cannot figure out why they are there as fragments of so-called events. They merely confront us as disconnected beings of their own events. Their state of being is not in disguise, but instead functions as a symptom. What we see is not the process of transformation but one frozen moment in time in the (dis)jointed process of physical transformation.
Theater, Theater in Process of Re-editing, and Sound
The space of theater in “The Adventure of Mr. Kim and Mr. Lee” becomes re-edited and re-imagined by the audience. Here, the conventions of the theater – the respective “roles” of the audience and actors, and delineation of spaces and boundaries – are completely subverted. The audience has to re-edit the space in which they are situated along with the “performance” they have come to see. In the process of re-editing/re-imagining of spaces, the audience’s assumptions are continually questioned as they begin to consider if they themselves are the actors. The only clue given to the audience is “sound.”
Director / artist : Chung Seo Young
Chung Seo Young has inquired into socio-cultural issues particularly related to language, object, and situation, through the sculptural. Her sculptures and installations challenge social norms, resulting in striking confrontations between what is “true” and what is “false,” the objective and the subjective, and the meaningful and meaningless. Selected solo exhibitions include: “LOOKOUT” (Artsonje center, Seoul, 2000), “Simply Put the Bonfire” (Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, 2005), “On top of the table, please use ordinary nails with small head. Do not use screws.” (Atelier Hermes, Seoul, 2007), “Monster map, 15min” (Gallery Plant, Seoul, 2009); Group exhibition: “The Song of the Earth”` (Kunsthall Fridericianum, Kassel, 2000), “Currents in Korean Contemporary Art, National Museum of Contemporary Art”” (National Museum of Contemporary art, Gwacheon, 2000), “Landscape of Differences” (Korean Pavilion of the 50th Venice Biennial, Venice, 2003), “Seoul-Until Now” (Charlottenborg Udstillingsboygning, Copenhagen, 2005), “Annual Report: A Year in Exhibitions” (the 7th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, 2008).
Curator: Jang Un Kim
Jang Un Kim, an independent curator and critic, looks into the relationship between contemporary art and society. He is particularly interested in the way in which contemporary art, as a cultural form of expression, questions meanings within a social context. His past projects were in a diverse unconventional style that has included performances, publications, and lectures, cooperatively produced with the artists and curators. As a curator he worked in the Alternative Space Pool (Seoul), Anyang Public Art Foundation (Anyang) and 2008 Gwangju Biennale: The Position Papers (Gwangju), etc. He established the curatorial laboratory, the “normal type (www.normaltype.net)”, an active platform for discussion, exhibition projects, research and publications. His curatorial projects include “God Save the Mona Lisa” (Gallery Plant, Seoul, 2010), “Normal Talk-the 1st edition” (Ga Gallery, Seoul, 2009), On Jouissance for Those without Places to Return (7th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, 2008), and Close to You (Gallery 27, Kaywon School of Art and Design, Uiwang, 2008).
Host: LIG Arts Foundation
Opened on April 1, 2009, LIG Arts Foundation directs and manages the arts programs in the LIG Art Hall. The mission of the foundation is to bridge arts and society by sponsoring performing artists and by introducing diverse experimental contemporary art forms. www.ligarthall.com
Host / Producer: 719 Factory
719 Factory is former GaGallery (2003-2009) that used to present contemporary arts. In 2009, 719 Factory opened as a new curatorial organization for performing and visual arts with its first project “Yisang Counts to Thirteen” (Original Play by Sung Rno; Directed by Lee Breuer). http://blog.naver.com/deshaber
People
Director/Artist: Chung Seo Young
Curator: Jang Un Kim
Host: LIG Arts Foundation, 719 Factory
Producer: 719 Factory
Performers: Daegun Go (young man disguised as a woman), Kim Ji Sun (young woman disguised as an old woman), Shin Min Jung (middle-aged woman disguised as a middle-aged man), Eyo Woo (dog), Lee Jung (young man #2), Im Ho Kyoung (young man #1), Jin Shiu (dog owner), Ham Jeong Sik (young man disguised as monster), Hong Ji Eun (young small woman disguised as a child), An Sang Sun Davaa(Asian man disguised as a western man)
Production Manager: Lee Mi Yeon
Make-Up: Ji Moon Ju
Special Make-Up: Shin Yeon Sun
Sound: Hankil Ryu
Photography: Seo Jonghyun
Cinematography: Park, hongyeol
LIG Arts Foundation
Artistic Director : Seongjoo Joh
Producer : JinAh Chang
Production Manager : Onceup Moon
Sound Director : Bumjin Park
Lighting Director : Kwanhyung Lee
House Manager : Yejin Seo
PR Manager : Eunyoung Park
PR Assistant Manager : Seongwon Cho, Sunyoung Park
Administrative Assistant : Eunkyuong Kim
LIG Arts Foundation
LIG Tower, 649-11 Yeoksam-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul 135-550, Korea
The Adventure of Mr. Kim and Mr. Lee
ⓒ Chung Seo Young
The Adventure of Mr. Kim and Mr. Lee
Mr. Kim: It was a really big boulder. He was to leave soon. After a brawl with someone he was just about to leave in a hurry.
Mr. Lee: So it’s not a song to sing to the light wind of the likes of the dust blowing. But I see that he is looking at the greasy sweat spread on his loyal forehead as if he is in a trance.
Mr. Kim: So, your knee broke after two rounds of rotation.
Mr. Lee: I will cut out a tip of your hat.
LIG Art Hall www.ligarthall.com
8 p.m.~10p.m. Thursday 22nd – Friday 23rd April 2010
6 p.m.~8 p.m. Saturday 24th April 2010
Admission Free
Director / Artist: Chung Seo Young
Curator: Jang Un Kim
Performers: Alag Aduu An Sang Sun Davaa, Daegun Go, Eyo Woo, Ham Jeong Sik, Hong Ji Eun, Im Ho Kyoung, Jin Shiu, Kim Ji Sun, Lee Jung , Shin Min Jung,
Hosted by LIG Arts Foundation, 719 Factory
Produced by 719 Factory
* This is a continuous performance. Audiences will receive brief information about the performance at the lobby desk, then be guided to enter into the theater through different gateways with a headphone and an mp3 player. At the moment audiences enter into the theater putting on the headphone, the performance “begins.” Entrance is allowed only thirty minutes before the ending of the performance.
“The Adventure of Mr. Kim and Mr. Lee” by Chung Seo Young begins in the form of drawing and installation, then transforms into performing arts. In her past projects, Chung has created a strange landscape of language, object, and our human condition in everyday life represented with cold humour. Her approach makes these elements into strange (uncanny) multiscapes by combining aspects of the sculptural and the everyday objects. Her interest expands as to encompass the issues surrounding the incommensurability between linguistic operation (as a semiotic system) and reality (as a lived experience). If she has so far revealed the chasm between the symbolic and the real by examining the structured meanings, now she pushes the boundaries of her artistic interests and attitude by taking a form of theatrical performance. A unserious seriousness, meaningless meaning, and a humorless humor demonstrated in previous sculptures, installations, drawings all integrates in this performance with the living objects in the theater space- on site.
The Adventure of Mr. Kim and Mr. Lee
On a large-scale paper Chung drew (wrote) a discontinuous conversation between the two men. The drawing does not show or tell any specific event but is instead structured in the form of abstract texts. While looking at the fragmented pieces of words – conversation – we can experience the absurdity, violence, and discontinuity of life.
The performance is made up with anti-narrative stories, disjointed events without a sense of cause-and-effect. This is situated in between reality and un-reality (theatricality), leaving both the audiences and the performers in the liminal space between the inside and the outside – the theater and the world. In this sense, Mr. Kim and Mr. Lee may not only refer to the performers but they could be mirrored images of our own situated in our daily lives. The surreal moments that we experience in daily lives deconstructively operates in theater, or, the world. The purpose of this performance is to disclose the sense of confusion about the world, which indicates the theater. This feeling of confusion and disruption will estrange the illusion of ideology, and serve to expose the un-reality of the world in which we live in the mode of theatrical performance.
A Living Object: A Transformation not as Disguise but as Symptom
There are nine characters in the performance: a young man #1, a young man #2, a young small woman disguised as a child, a young man disguised as a monster, a dog and its owner, a young woman disguised as an old woman, an Asian man disguised as a western man, a young man disguised as a young woman, and a middle-aged woman disguised as a middle-aged man. However, the performers do not “act” – they are situated in the space of theater as a living object/sculpture or as a moment of deconstructive events. We cannot figure out why they are there as fragments of so-called events. They merely confront us as disconnected beings of their own events. Their state of being is not in disguise, but instead functions as a symptom. What we see is not the process of transformation but one frozen moment in time in the (dis)jointed process of physical transformation.
Theater, Theater in Process of Re-editing, and Sound
The space of theater in “The Adventure of Mr. Kim and Mr. Lee” becomes re-edited and re-imagined by the audience. Here, the conventions of the theater – the respective “roles” of the audience and actors, and delineation of spaces and boundaries – are completely subverted. The audience has to re-edit the space in which they are situated along with the “performance” they have come to see. In the process of re-editing/re-imagining of spaces, the audience’s assumptions are continually questioned as they begin to consider if they themselves are the actors. The only clue given to the audience is “sound.”
Director / artist : Chung Seo Young
Chung Seo Young has inquired into socio-cultural issues particularly related to language, object, and situation, through the sculptural. Her sculptures and installations challenge social norms, resulting in striking confrontations between what is “true” and what is “false,” the objective and the subjective, and the meaningful and meaningless. Selected solo exhibitions include: “LOOKOUT” (Artsonje center, Seoul, 2000), “Simply Put the Bonfire” (Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, 2005), “On top of the table, please use ordinary nails with small head. Do not use screws.” (Atelier Hermes, Seoul, 2007), “Monster map, 15min” (Gallery Plant, Seoul, 2009); Group exhibition: “The Song of the Earth”` (Kunsthall Fridericianum, Kassel, 2000), “Currents in Korean Contemporary Art, National Museum of Contemporary Art”” (National Museum of Contemporary art, Gwacheon, 2000), “Landscape of Differences” (Korean Pavilion of the 50th Venice Biennial, Venice, 2003), “Seoul-Until Now” (Charlottenborg Udstillingsboygning, Copenhagen, 2005), “Annual Report: A Year in Exhibitions” (the 7th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, 2008).
Curator: Jang Un Kim
Jang Un Kim, an independent curator and critic, looks into the relationship between contemporary art and society. He is particularly interested in the way in which contemporary art, as a cultural form of expression, questions meanings within a social context. His past projects were in a diverse unconventional style that has included performances, publications, and lectures, cooperatively produced with the artists and curators. As a curator he worked in the Alternative Space Pool (Seoul), Anyang Public Art Foundation (Anyang) and 2008 Gwangju Biennale: The Position Papers (Gwangju), etc. He established the curatorial laboratory, the “normal type (www.normaltype.net)”, an active platform for discussion, exhibition projects, research and publications. His curatorial projects include “God Save the Mona Lisa” (Gallery Plant, Seoul, 2010), “Normal Talk-the 1st edition” (Ga Gallery, Seoul, 2009), On Jouissance for Those without Places to Return (7th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, 2008), and Close to You (Gallery 27, Kaywon School of Art and Design, Uiwang, 2008).
Host: LIG Arts Foundation
Opened on April 1, 2009, LIG Arts Foundation directs and manages the arts programs in the LIG Art Hall. The mission of the foundation is to bridge arts and society by sponsoring performing artists and by introducing diverse experimental contemporary art forms. www.ligarthall.com
Host / Producer: 719 Factory
719 Factory is former GaGallery (2003-2009) that used to present contemporary arts. In 2009, 719 Factory opened as a new curatorial organization for performing and visual arts with its first project “Yisang Counts to Thirteen” (Original Play by Sung Rno; Directed by Lee Breuer). http://blog.naver.com/deshaber
People
Director/Artist: Chung Seo Young
Curator: Jang Un Kim
Host: LIG Arts Foundation, 719 Factory
Producer: 719 Factory
Performers: Daegun Go (young man disguised as a woman), Kim Ji Sun (young woman disguised as an old woman), Shin Min Jung (middle-aged woman disguised as a middle-aged man), Eyo Woo (dog), Lee Jung (young man #2), Im Ho Kyoung (young man #1), Jin Shiu (dog owner), Ham Jeong Sik (young man disguised as monster), Hong Ji Eun (young small woman disguised as a child), An Sang Sun Davaa(Asian man disguised as a western man)
Production Manager: Lee Mi Yeon
Make-Up: Ji Moon Ju
Special Make-Up: Shin Yeon Sun
Sound: Hankil Ryu
Photography: Seo Jonghyun
Cinematography: Park, hongyeol
LIG Arts Foundation
Artistic Director : Seongjoo Joh
Producer : JinAh Chang
Production Manager : Onceup Moon
Sound Director : Bumjin Park
Lighting Director : Kwanhyung Lee
House Manager : Yejin Seo
PR Manager : Eunyoung Park
PR Assistant Manager : Seongwon Cho, Sunyoung Park
Administrative Assistant : Eunkyuong Kim
LIG Arts Foundation
LIG Tower, 649-11 Yeoksam-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul 135-550, Korea