Insa Art Space will host a presentation by STATIC, an art organization who will be participating in the Artist Forum International 2006, ‘Public Moment.’ They are one of the three artist groups invited to Project 1: Collective Expectations, Collective Potentials: Justice. (Event outline of AFI at www.afi.or.kr)

STATIC is an art organization based in Liverpool, UK. Its aim is to increase the production of cultural activity and to build the critical infrastructures that support this nationally and internationally. Static’s projects reflect their interest in the production, education, consumption, communication, and the structure of systems which encourage or prevent serious criticism of art.

Since 2001, Static has been actively engaging in artistic and social dialogues through publications, projects, lectures, and other forms of collaboration with different art organizations. , an online and hard-copy newssheet is a vital arena where criticism and comment about visual culture is provided. , a project organized to give graduating art students an informed feedback about their work long before they are exposed in the professional art world, is a small yet significant intervention to the system of British Art education. (For more information on STATIC, visit www.static-ops.org)

For Artist Forum International, STATIC will be presenting official ‘AFI 2006 Press Corps.’ This will be the second time STATIC is launching ‘Press Corps’ after the ‘2004 Liverpool Biennial Press Corps’. ‘Press Corps’ was official vehicle for critical information during 2004 Liverpool Biennial. The purpose of ‘Press Corps’ was to encourage a well informed opinion from the press by providing them with as much critical information as possible. (More information about Press Corps at www.presscorps.org.uk )

Paul Sullivan, one of the Directors of Static, and John Byrne are visiting Korea to research the Korean context of art and criticism in preparation for ‘Press Corps’ in Korea. For the talk, they will introduce STATIC’S past and current projects and also share their ideas about the upcoming ‘Press Corps’ in Korea.