No Place Like Home Collaborative Programs

ARKO Art Center will host eight public programs with the upcoming exhibition No Place Like Home(11.21-12.1). The participating artists and their Korean friends will share their experiences of friendship and collaboration during their residency programs, and discuss the power of communication through art. We invite you to join us on this journey of collaboration, inclusion, and sharing alongside the exhibition.

□ Ongoing Performance

Performing Residency Aracha Cholitgul, Yujin Lee

In the early days of the pandemic in 2020, Aracha Cholitgul, and Yujin Lee started an online residency called im_there_r_u_here. This marked the beginning of their collaboration, co-curating of the online exhibition Virtual Meal in 2021, and their participation in a group exhibition at the UP Vargas Museum in the Philippines in 2022. In January 2024, Yujin Lee visited Ko Phangan, where Cholitgul was living at the time, and spent 10 days together, creating a collaborative painting. A few months later, Cholitgul stayed at Next Door to the Museum run by Yujin Lee in Jeju for 40 days, continuing their work and friendship.

Continuing this collaboration, the two artists will present Performing Residency, a project where they share a studio within a white cube, staying and working together. During the exhibition period, the artists will use the ARKO Art Center as their studio and BodySoundSpeakJoAhRa, the home of artist Jo Ahra, as their residency.

□ 11.20(Wed) - Preview Performance

Bread Whisper Silas Fong

Bread Whispers is a baking performance presented by Silas Fong at the Horanggasy creative studio in Gwangju. Silas Fong Learned baking techniques at a local bakery in Gwangju, “Bread & Rose”, and practiced them in the residency’s kitchen, sharing the results of his efforts with fellow artists. This process showcases a warmth and friendship often found even in the competitive art world. Sharing becomes a reason for people to gather, and the bread serves as the starting point for conversations among those who have assembled. When the performance ends, people may scatter like breadcrumbs, but the friendships remain, offering a lasting warmth that will continue to sustain us.

□ 11.21(Thu) - Artist Talk

Interwoven thoughts Emmy Skensved

Emmy Skensved is an artist who explores the connections between society and community. Based on the philosophy of Nick Crossley, who emphasizes each different thoughts are interwoven to create something new. She uses the metaphor of fabric in her sculptures to explore the relationship between the individual and the collective. In this talk, she will share her insights on these themes and discuss how friendship, through a decentralized dialogue can enrich social relationships.

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□ 11.24(Sun) - Performance

I WILL CALL YOU BACK Naresh Kumar

I Will Call You Back is a performance exploring today’s contentious geographies and national borders. This piece connects the industrial time and mechanistic order of the world to the broader planetary world, including nature, through the human body. It conveys a message to recognize differences and pursue connections across geographic borders and time zones.

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□ 11.28(Thu) - Performance

Between Lands Rémi Klemensiewicz

The maximum duration a foreigner can stay in Korea is 3 months. In other words, a foreigner residing in Korea must travel to another country every 3 months in order to renew their stay. To continue his work in Korea, Rémi Klemensiewicz would take a fast ferry from Busan to Daemado, and then return to Seoul by train every 3 months. During these travels, he developed the habit of recording the sound of the ship's engine.

This performance is composed of the sound of the ship's engine placed at its core, layered with various live acoustic and electronic instruments. As these two contrasting sounds repeat within the quiet museum space, they evoke the artist's ambiguous and uncertain journey.

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□ 12.1(Sun) - Performance

Tuning Jo Ahra

Jo Ahra, multidisciplinary artist, participated in the Next Door to the Museum Residency for one month in March 2021, collaborating with Yujin Lee to create a cross-genre work blending performance and visual art. Since then, Jo has been running a temporary residency at "Body Sound Speak Joahra center," a single-story house located in Mapo-gu, which is linked to the current exhibition No Place Like Home. There, she welcomed Cholitgul and Yujin Lee as the first resident artists. In this program, based on her experience as a residency host who cared for Cholitgul and Lee, Jo Ahra will present the closing performance.

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