Curating Contemporary Art (MA)
Yoojin Kang
So remember the liquid ground is conceived as a programme of meditative and sensorial experiences across the digital, physical and spiritual realms. The immersive programme features newly commissioned live sound streaming, moving images and performances, contributed by Soundcamp collective, Myriam Lefkowitz and Julie Laporte, Zoë Marden, Eduardo Navarro, Anna Nazo, Himali Singh Soin and Linda Stupart.
Responding to and expanding from the forgotten social histories and ecologies of Vauxhall in London, the programme has been inspired by the secret and suppressed River Effra, which flows underneath the area. The river acts as a way to re-imagine, navigate, feel, and find ways in which we connect and synchronise with our surroundings.
The programme also includes a Reading Room that acts as a circadian space for collective imagining and reflection on the body beyond authoritative representation, with contributions from Clay AD, Chus Martínez, Helga Schmid, Ignota, PaperWork Magazine and NXS.
So remember the liquid ground is curated by Benjamin Darby, Yoojin Kang, Akis Kokkinos, Angelina Li, Lenette Lua, Louise Nason as part of the MA Curating Contemporary Art Programme Graduate Projects 2020, Royal College of Art in partnership with Gasworks.
It is also generously supported by Vauxhall One.
A physical iteration of the project will be presented in Autumn 2020 in the wider area of Vauxhall.
Image credit: Linda Stupart, WATERSHED, 2020, Video Still.
Sponsors
Vauxhall One
Yoojin Kang is a curator based in South Korea. Her practice focuses on topics, such as the places and its identity, transnational discourses and the dynamic relationship between art institutions and the audiences. Her dissertation, Curatorial Site of Multiplicity: Through the axis of Nam June Paik explores the new role and purposes of art institutions and exhibitions by discussing the traditions of curators and art institutions in context-making through an exhibition and how the western and non-western have different ways of understanding artworks.
Today, different art fields interact on a transnational level and present an internationalized and institutionalized consensus of the global art community. However, this interaction also takes place on a micro-level between the capital cities and other local regions. Kang believes that these kinds of complexity imply institutionalized agreements. Her curatorial interest focuses on diversity. Recognising a cultural practice can be dominant, she is interested in considering the curatorial practice as a way to identify the nuances of the local places responding to the dominant culture.
Kang has worked as a curator at national galleries in Seoul and Daejeon. As a consultant during the founding of the Gyeonggi national art gallery in 2018, she had the opportunity to research more into the interactions between the global and the local. In 2019, she was awarded the grand prize from Cheongju Biennale Foundation for her research on the role of local national galleries in understanding the local area in Cheongju. Kang is currently working on new research that explores curatorial practices as a way to represent cultural globalism and the multitude of different regions' contexts.
