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Ga Ram KIM
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b. Seoul, South Korea, 1984 Ga Ram Kim’s work focuses on social and cultural issues through playful participatory experiments. She mainly uses installation, media, and performance to induce audience participation and empathy. She carefully observes various social phenomena around her and attempts to capture an idea of the changing contemporary moment within her artistic experiments. In her works TheSexyBikini.com, Virgin Candy, #SELSTAR, and #FANTASY, Kim focused on the ironic dimensions of situations in which the meaning of value has changed over recent years, or how different levels of meaning creates conflict in the contemporary period. She has deepened her attention with contemporary societal issues at the 4ROSE Sound Project and the AGENDA Hair Salon. In her practice, Ga Ram Kim focuses on the social role of art in an ever- changing society. Through the social platform of the art exhibition, she hopes to use her work to create a meaningful venue for public conversation.
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Sejin KIM
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Sejin Kim is a media artist artist and filmmaker. She holds an MFA in Fine Art in Slade school of fine art, UCL and MA in Fim & TV in Media Art, Sogang University. She has working with a variety of media apparatuses, including documentary realism and cinematic language to explore various and perplexing relationships between individuals and contemporary systems. Her works have been exhibited at Songeun Art Space, National Museum of Contemporary and Modern Art in Seoul, MAXXI in Rome; Grunt Gallery in Vancouver; La Friche Belle de Mai in Marseille, France. She has participated in several residency programs including Delfina foundation(London), Helsinki International Artist Programme (HIAP), International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP), King Sejong Research Station(Antarctica) and MMCA residency(Goyang). Also she won the prize of Songeun Art Award, 4th Daum Prize and Unesco Prize for the Promotion of the Arts.
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Daniel Schine LEE
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Born in 1987 in New York, Lee has MA in Fine Art from the Royal College of Art, and is currently active in Seoul. Lee utilises sound, language, text, and visual imagery to arrange interactive installations and group performances in reference to particular subcultures — such as underground dance scene in Detroit and street food culture in post-Korean War, Seoul. Other recent involvements include being part of a curatorial team of Korea Research Fellow 10 x 10 in 2021, an active member of an artist-run-space Euljiro OF in Seoul, collaborating on sound and research with contemporary choreography group Libre Joven, and DJ-ing in Seoul’s underground venues.
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Gihun Noh
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Gihun Noh was born in Gumi in 1985. Now, he lives and works in Seoul, Korea. He showed photography, performance, installation and image based on the observation of the documentary things that exist mainly here and now. His way of working which is making his own unique reality as if in the self-contradiction is the way to be lived the past by a vulnerable Korean young man who is living in Korea where experienced many changes for a short period of time. Gihun Noh is interested in the geographical environment resulted from the past, and takes a picture of its present appearance. From the premise that "The current situation stems from the past", He takes a picture of the shadows of the past surrounding the present.
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Bongsu Park
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b. 1981 Busan, South Korea, lives and works in the United Kingdom. Contemporary multidisciplinary artist Bongsu Park’s work explores the relationship between new media and traditional art practices such as sculpture, installation, video, performance and audience participatory projects. Her recent work is founded on how our innermost thoughts may connect with other people’s and how these can be shared publicly. Since 2017 Bongsu has developed her Dream Auction project, exploring Korean dream culture including DREAM RITUAL(2019) at The Coronet Theatre in London and SOCIAL MATTERS THROUGH DREAM SHARING (2021) with The Tavistock Institute. She studied at the Slade School of Fine Arts, UK and at l’Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, France.
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