PRESS
RELEASE
Radio Hue: The Seoul Scene, Joo young Lee and Danger Museum
at Art Space Hue
ART SPACE HUE, SEOUL, MARCH 31. - APRIL 23. 2004
OPENING: TUESDAY MARCH 30. 18.00
During their residency at SSamziespace in Seoul, Joo young Lee and
the artist collective Danger Museum (Miho Shimizu & Øyvind
Renberg) have developed a project under the title Radio Hue,
in collaboration with Art Space Hue. This is a radio style sound work
that makes a portrayal of the Seoul art scene of 2004 through interviews
and reports with the people working within it.
Radio Hue stems from Danger Museum's project Peanut Circuit,
shown in Oslo, Norway in 2003. Peanut Circuit gave various
players in the Oslo art world a say, through interviews, mixed with
other visual and textual elements. Radio Hue similarly aims
to take the pulse of this particular social circle, this time in the
city of Seoul. Artists, gallerists, museum workers and writers, twenty-two
in all, are interviewed about personal taste, nationality, expectations
and opinion about their home working ground. From the same set of
questions, the responses vary from short statements to complex answers,
creating a multifaceted portrayal of Seoul`s art environment.
Along with the sound interviews, the exhibition includes a series
of sculpture and image works made in response to the artist's experiences.
These are abstract and humorous pieces that offer new levels for interpreting
the interviews, such as a radio studio warning light in textile, a
neon work and a collection of the interviewee's favorite magazines.
In the centre of the room visitors are invited to lounge on a gigantic
white, fake leather beanbag, shaped as a mobius band. It has hybrid
meaning. While functioning as seating for the listeners, it also presents
the Seoul art scene as a cycle with no beginning or end; a racing
lane for professional players. On a symbolic level the audience takes
part in the race by interacting with the sofa. It can be read from
a religious angle - as the snake in the tree of wisdom, or simply
as a giant string of Korean Ttok noodle.
Lee and Danger Museum have involved Art Space Hue director in the
project, who helps out as guest DJ for Radio Hue. This airs
the voice of yet another player on the Seoul scene and also inscribes
the identity and position of the institution that the work revolves
around - "the radio broadcasters" - into the basis for engaging with
the project. Finally, Radio Hue reflects Joo young Lee and
Danger Museum's own vantage points, and three-month journey through
the Seoul art world. In conjunction with the exhibition, Joo young
Lee and Danger Museum launches the booklet RADIO HUE: INTERVIEWS that
contains all the interviews in both Korean and English text, along
with images from the production process.
THE ARTISTS Joo young Lee lives in Seoul and makes videos and photo
collages, where references from fashion and mass media are sampled
to constitute new narratives and visual worlds. She also works directly
in the public environment, such as through interventionist performances,
magazine spreads and conceptual fashion brands. Selected recent and
future exhibitions: 291 Gallery, London (00) Insa Art Center, Seoul
(02), Akihabara TV3,Tokyo (02), Video Art Foundation, Barcelona (03),
Art Space Hue, Seoul (03), Daegu Culture and Arts Center, Daegu (04)
and The Korean Embassy, Oslo (04).
Danger Museum is an artist collective facilitating and exploring the
relationship between art institutions, artists and audiences. DM's
interest lies in long-term developments of concepts and projects with
collaborators that are channeled through exhibitions, publications
and the web. Miho Shimizu and Øyvind Renberg are based in Tokyo
and Oslo whilst the third member Tien Wei Woon lives in Singapore.
Selected recent and future exhibitions: Insa Art Center, Seoul, (02),
inIVA, London (02), Norsk skulpturbiennale, Oslo (03), Daegu Culture
and Arts Center, Daegu (04) The Korean Embassy, Oslo (04), and Sparwasser
HQ in Berlin (04).
Address: Art Space Hue, 334-1, Seogyo-dong, Mapo-gu, Seoul,
Gallery opening hours: Tue - Sun 13.00 - 19.00
Contact: +82-(0)16-9771-2561 (Joo young Lee) / jooyounglee24@hotmail.com
/ oyvind@dangermuseum.com
www.dangermuseum.com
/ www.artspacehue.com
/ www.ssamziespace.com
The project is supported by: Korean Culture & Arts Foundation, Office
for Contemporary Art Norway, SSamziespace and Art Space Hue |
