The next step following the biennale’s North Korean Art exhibition would be to promote interpersonal communication between North Korean artists and others from the outside world.
Gwangju Biennale
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Pixels and Politics in the Age of Fake News
A new work by South Korean artist, Sunwoo Hoon, shown at this year’s Gwangju Biennale, gets to the heart of contemporary democracy’s struggle for viability.
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Two LA Curators Offer Sneak Preview of Their Work at South Korea Biennial
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s own Christine Y. Kim and Rita Gonzalez are co-curators at this year’s Gwangju Biennale, Asia’s oldest contemporary art biennial.
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AA Bronson on Queer Collaborations, Shamanism, and Korean History
GWANGJU, South Korea — For the past several years, AA Bronson’s work has drawn on the acute awareness of radical pedagogies and alternative economies that he developed as a member of the Canadian artists collective General Idea.
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The Autobiography of Mark Jan Krayenhoff van de Leur
GWANGJU, South Korea — I have never been to South Korea before. Jessica Morgan warned that it would be hot and sweaty and of course Gwangju was exactly that — tropical!
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Freelance Curators “Either Grossly Underpaid or Grossly Overpaid”
Following reports of Italian art historian Germano Celant getting paid three-quarters of a million Euros (~$1 million) to curate a pavilion for the upcoming Milan Expo, The Art Newspaper conducted an investigation into the pay of independent curators.