2008 Gwangju Biennale International Conference, Seoul
8008 The Reality and Utterance of Korean Contemporary Art
Journal BOL
Aug - Oct, 2008
Guerilla Salons

-The 'Criticality' of Korean Contemporary Art and the 'Interest' of Artists
Host/ Park Chan-Kyong

August 28 (Fri,) Lee Young-Wook, Cho Seon Ryeong, Juyoun Jo / 19:00 Takeout Drawing
September 9 (Tue.) Kim Sung Won, Jang Un Kim, Rho Jae Oon / 19:00 Park Chan-Kyong's Atelier
September 10 (Wed.) Koh Seung Wook, Sasa[44], Lim Geun-jun / 19:00 Park Chan-Kyong's Atelier
September 18 (Thu.) Kim Beom, Bae Young Whan, Chung Seo Young / 19:00 Park Chan-Kyong's Atelier
September 30 (Tue.), Kim Joohyun, Minouk Lim / 19:00 Park Chan-Kyong's Atelier
October 15 (Wed.), Kim Jung Rak, Ban E Jung, Shim Sang Yong / 19:00 Park Chan-Kyong's Atelier

-The Topography of Critical Issues: Recontextualizing Modernism, Minjung Art, Postmodernism
Host/ Lee Young-Wook

(closed session) Joe Jung Hwan, Lim Geun-jun, Seo Dong Jin, Yun Nan Ji

-"Korean Contemporary Art Exhibition": Curating Korean Contemporary Art for Audience Abroad
Host/ Young Min Moon

(E-mail Interview with) Korean and foreign curators from Korea and abroad who curatedcontemporary exhibitions outside of Korea

-Minjung Art and After: The New World of Visual Life and the Politics of Art
Host/ Seo Dong Jin

September 19 (Fri.) Kim Su-Ki, Joo Eunwoo / 15:00 Insa Art Space Archive
October 2 (Thu.) Lee Gwang-Joon, Lee Won Jae / 17:00 Insa Art Space Archive
October 9 (Thu.) Jang Un Kim, Jeon Yong Seok / 17:00 Insa Art Space Archive
October 16 (Thu.), Kim Sang-Kyu, Park Hae-Chun / 17:00 Insa Art Space Archive

-The Light and Shade of Art in the Age of Neo-Liberalism
Host/ Shim Sang Yong

September 26 (Fri.) Kim Jung-Hee, Park So-Hyun, Park Pa Rang, Lee Dae Hyung, Jo Kwang Suk / 18:00 ARKO Art Center Seminar Room
October 17 (Fri.) Kang Su Mi, Kim Sung-Hee, Ban E Jung, Seo Jin-Seok, Chang Dong Kwang / Seminar Room at Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture's Daehangno Practice Room

Organizer : Journal BOL, Insa Art Space of the Arts Council Korea
Host : Gwangju Biennale Foundation, Gwangju Metropolitan City
The IAS workshops promote voluntary participation and personal ownership of the process rather than structured indoctrination. Away from giving one-sided instruction, the IAS workshops encourage participants to get motivated and activated in the course of discussion.

It is hoped that participants will proactively delineate the issues and agenda relevant to the field of the visual arts, refine them, and thereby “pre-empt ” the future discourses and activities in the practice of the visual arts.