2021 ARKO Art & Tech Festival 《Nothing makes Itself》 》

❑ Exhibition Information

• Period : September 17 (Fri) ~ December 12 (Sun) 2021
• Venue : ARKO Art Center Exhibition Hall & Outside, SpaceFeelux, Online Platform
• Participants

Exhibition and Live Art

PyoungRyang Ko & ATOD, Gijeong Goo, Borahm Kim, Shinae Kim, Ayoung Kim, Yunchul Kim, Choyeop Kim, NewBotong, V.A.B Lab, Susie Ibarra & Michele Koppes, Studio ThinkingHand, Sissel Marie Tonn, Ursula Biemann, Ji Hye Yeom, Min Kyoung Lee, LeeJungYeon DanceProject, Hyejoo Jun, Jihyun Jung, Jakob Kudsk Steensen, Collective Doingle Around, Yoon Chung Han, Dongwook Hwang & Dongkoo Jung

Online Platform (www.nothingmakesitself.art)www.nothingmakesitself.art

➀ Satellite Project

Net Show (Curated by Sola Jung / Hyewon Kwon, Mary Mattingly, Ackroyd & Harvey and Ben Okri, Narae Inni Jin) Zero Makes Zero (Organized by Min-hyung Kang, Hwayong Kim, Youjin Jeon / Sunwoo Nam, Taein Park, Hyejin Yeo, Kyudong Lee, Mokhwa Lee) Fragments of Hospitality (Curated by diana lab / 109, blblbg, Mc. mama, Eunjeong Koo, Grace Kim, Mooming, Insook Bae, SooYon Song, Wonjung Shin, Sewon Ahn, Seungwook, Yang, Oro Minkyung, Ueta Jiro, yiyagi, Jeong Yuhee, Jinho Jeong, Hamamu, Hotpinkdolphins, Hong SeoYeon),

➁ Online Exhibition

Diakron, Suzanne Anker, Studio ThinkingHand, City as Nature, TJ Shin, Jaewook Lee, Chang Hanna, Christina Agapakis · Ginkgo Bioworks & Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg & Sissel Tolaas

❑ Live Arts Schedule / Location: Space Feelux

#1. September 25 (Sat) 4 pm, 7 pm / Min Kyoung Lee, “Journey of Three Bodies”

#2. October 5 (Tue) - Oct. 17 (Sun) 11 am – 7 pm / Borahm Kim, “Moving our forest - We are living in a house of fire”

#3. Oct. 20 (Wed) 2 pm, 5 pm / Collective Doingle Around, “Answer: OO”

#4. Oct. 26 (Tue) - Nov. 7 (Sun) 11 am – 7 pm / PyoungRyang Ko & ATOD “The Nostalgia for the Coexistence without Any Sacrifice: a trifle reflection on the destructive symbiosis“

#5. Nov. 16 (Tue) - Nov. 28 (Sun) 11 am – 7 pm / V.A.B Lab, “Searching for Mr. Co”

#6. Dec. 4 (Sat) 2 pm, 5 pm / LeeJungYeon DanceProject, “Lucid Dream II”

→Live Arts Booking information for #2, 4, 5 will be announced later.

❑ Exhibition Events / Location: Online Platform and SpaceFeelux

Sep 30 2021 (Sat) Online Artist Talk

Nov 11 2021 (Tue) ~ Dec 1 (Wed) Online Symposium

Dec 8 2021 (Wed) ~ Dec 12 (Sun) Seoul Eco Film Festival “Green Archive Showcase”

※ Schedule may be subjected to change. Please check final schedule at the website.

• Hosted by: ARKO Art Center, Arts Council Korea
• Operating hours: 11 am – 7 pm (Closed every Mondays and Chuseok holiday)
• 운영시간 : 11시-19시(매주 월요일 및 추석 당일 휴관)
• Admission fee: Free
• Visitor Inquiries: ARKO Art Center 02-760-4626
  →Exhibition booking information will be announced later.

※ Number of viewers are limited in each time slot. 1 person is allowed to book up to 2 persons.

※ Please cancel the booking when unable to visit. On-site viewing is allowed when there is a cancellation or the exhibition is not fully booked.

❑ About the Exhibition

ARKO Art Center will host art festival, Nothing Makes Itself, supported by Art & Tech Program of ARKO (Arts Council Korea). The exhibition explores the method of transversality that redefines the relationship between humans, technology and environment as symbiotic and malleable. The festival presents thirty-five artists (teams) in visual and multidisciplinary arts and about fifty works based on theories of science and technology or incorporating various technologies—including VR (Virtual Reality), AR (Augmented Reality), 3D Printing, robotics, data visualization, sound installation, moving image, and the web. The idea traversing Nothing Makes Itself is “trans-corporeality”, which is derived from American literary scholar and ecocultural theorist Stacy Alaimo, serving as a mechanism that breaks away from human-imposed dichotomies and suggests interconnection and interaction between the human and non-human bodies. Also, it aims to resist separating itself from the mechanism of fluid interconnections between humans and nature and simply observing the current situation from a particular field or point of view. The festival looks beyond the symbolic images hanging over modern society and pays attention to each individual's life and burden of reality. It does so while disrupting the cognitive frame of human-nature division to acknowledge diverse principles, which have been overlooked in human history. The festival highlights data-based visual projects that demonstrate how closely humans and the environment are related. Some of the works visualize the links between the invisible environmental elements and humans through their convergence with bioscience or imagine interpenetrations of materials in sci-fiesque images. Other works envisage humans in a hypothetical, future environment driven by climate change or look into the voices of diverse lives and communities behind the weight that environmental issues carry and their symbolic images as one goes through the pandemic era. The process will conceptualize the foundation for how heterogeneous elements are interlaced and expand their points of contact and how multiple values coexist in another time that will arrive, built with accumulated continuities of the present.

▣ Exhibition View

Nothing Makes Itself presents thirty-five artists (teams) in visual and multidisciplinary arts and about fifty works based on theories of science and technology or incorporating various technologies. The projects will be shown as indoor and outdoor exhibitions, live art performances at SpaceFeelux, online exhibition and satellite project with three collaborate curators and teams. As artists living in a pandemic era, their projects contemplate the relationship between technology, humans, and the environment and conceptualize the future world reflecting the current environmental issues. The festival will feature artworks that involve collaborations with experts in the field of visual art, technology, science, and environment or long-term research. They will be shown in a physical exhibition, live art performances at Space Feelux, and a website designed for the festival’s online projects. The physical boundaries that have been magnified in the pandemic era will be connected through the flexible nature of the exhibition environment and genres. Though the works in the online exhibitions are not necessarily about a web environment or technology-based, they highlight more extensive discourses or research outcomes regarding environmental issues. Furthermore, it takes note of artists' practical activities, interviews, workshops, and research-based archives. The festival will introduce artistic imagination and practice as a bridge between theory and its elucidation in each discipline and look into the possibilities of an alternative future. During the festival, the museum will also offer international symposium and artist talk with experts and audiences from different backgrounds and regions to expand the discussion around the exhibition and investigate its subject with depth. The final week will feature screening program in collaboration with Seoul Eco Film Festival’s “Green Archive” to have a further glimpse into the alternative future piercing through the era.

❑ Further information about artists and works

Detailed information will be available after September 17th at the website www.nothingmakesitself.art

자료담당자[기준일(2021.9.10.)] : 미술관운영부 차승주 02-760-4608
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