2010 Pool Publication + Forum A
Two books are just released!
Continuity and Intensity : 2008 – 2010, 58 Participants and Contemporary Art in Korea
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The Grass Rises : 2010 Annual Program Report of the Art Space Pool
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Continuity and Intensitycontains opinions and ideas of 58 key art practitioners of the local contemporary art scene of Korea during the past two years. The timeframe of 2008 and 2009 lying behind this book is the point of transition from progressive to conservative national politics, which brought along drastic reconfiguration of cultural order in the region. Witnessing a sharp reduction and perishment of qualified discourses in the field in 2010, this book intentionally retrieves two meaningful projects in 2008 and 2009 that were close to vanish by the scandalous policy change and book closure. The one is ‘Guerilla Salon,’ a discursive dialogue sessions held with more than 35 artists, curators and critics organized by the joint venture of the 7th Gwangu Biennale(Art Director, Okwui Enwezor) and Insa Art Space(IAS) of the Arts Council Korea, and the other is ‘Unconquered : Critical Visions from South Korea,’ an exhibition project of 5 artists(Chan- kyong Park, Minouk Lim, Beom Kim, Young Wha Bae, and Sangdon Kim) co-conceived by IAS(curator, Heejin Kim) and Museum as Hub partnership.
Surprisingly in the hindsight, this book shows that art players were already conveying the sense of urgency and concern about possible cultural byproducts made from ‘climate change’ in econo-political environment and trying to retain the discursive position of such far-more-to-dig issues : how art market can function as a potential partner system to stimulate infrastructural maturity of art industry; what the governmental or public federal art agencies should do or shouldn’t do ethically for the structural order of art systems; how commercial galleries and private museums can be drawn to the dimension of public responsibility; how art industry can expand the potential art public including new collectors and qualified human resources from the next generation; whether there is no more hope in stimulating academia and public education system of art; how independent art agencies can sustain public and cultural political validity of their presence facing the stronger tides of neoliberalism, globalism and consumerist exhibitionism; how the interdisciplinary collectives or self-initiated networks of individuals who had attempted to co-opt the languages of business management, counter economy and art practice have thrown any influence in the operating mechanism of art industry, and lastly what is the point of committing to any vision of glocal connectivity if any particular local characters should still be negotiated and diluted for gestural communication.
This book is a little reminder to the local art community of the issues left to be discussed further on.
Publisher : forum a
Editors : Yumi Kang, Kil Ye-Kyung, Heejin Kim, Yunju Chang
Translator : Kil Ye-Kyung, Yu Esther, Kyunghee Lee
Design : Kang Donghyeong
Printing : 3p
Publishing Date : December 31, 2008
Size : DIN A5, 14.8 x 21 (cm), 358 pp.
Language : Korean/English
Price : 30,000 KRW, 25 USD, 20 Euro
ISBN 978-89-965674-1-7 93600
The Grass Risesis a cheerful book compiling texts and images produced from all the programs of 2010 Art Space Pool. This IS a must-have book for those who love Pool and support Pool.
Art Space Pool is happy to inform another small fact that the two new publications ofContinuity and Intensity and The Grass Rises are published under the publishing license of forum a. forum a was one of the first alternative art journals made by local artists in the 90s with a collective dedication to initiating discussion, criticism, utterance, artist page work commission from the 1998 to 2005. Forum a was one of the embryo forms of Pool before it takes its form as a non-profit art organization with physical space. Acknowledging the historical effort to support creative capital of thoughts, Pool resuscitates the forum a as a publishing label with a hope to keep support alternative knowledge production in the local art scene of Korea.
First Printing : December 31, 2010
Publisher : forum a
Editor & Transcriber : Heejin Kim, Jinjoo Kim, Ha Myoung-sue
Editorial Intern : Kim Eun-kyung
Translation & Review : Jin Kwon, Heejin Kim, Kil Ye-kyung
Design : Yong-seok Jang
Photography : Sangdon Kim and artists of individual artworks
Printing : Pandacom Process
Price 30,000 KRW $25 USD
Size : DIN A5, 14.8 x 21 (cm), 390 pp.
Language : Korean/English
Price : 30,000 KRW, 25 USD, 20 Euro
ISBN 978-89-965674-0-0