Exhibition Information

2012 21분 25초

2024 145.5×605cm

2023 가변설치

2020 100×25×5cm

			The B-Class Jokes focuses on the stories of beings regarded as so-called "second-class", fragments pushed out by neoliberalism and capitalist conditions of life, and shed light on art practice that resist the logic of totality that reemerging today. Based on the aesthetics of “B-class” and juxtaposition, the artworks in the exhibition use strategies to confront the ideology of dichotomous norms and inclusion-exclusion through various languages, and propose reflections on the possibility of an alternative and sustainable world.



The exhibition is composed of three chapters, inviting spectator, the artist and the art museum itself as members of the community called the ‘exhibition'. Chapter 1 explores how art dismantles the dichotomies such as high-low or normal-abnormal, and intervenes in 'democracy from below'. This chapter interpellates the spectator into the ambivalent position of both ‘viewer’ and ‘citizen’, questioning the contradiction of in attitude of looking at the 'aesthetically' through the overlapping portraits of beings who still remain in the position of the 'other' and visualize today's fragmented community. Chapter 2 asks about the visibility and productivity of time as an economic resource when everyday actions combine with art practice. This question is linked to an imagination of an equal world beyond the Capitalocene at the intersection of heterogeneous elements such as present and future, reality and ideal, etc. Chapter 3 explores the role of art museums as a public sphere where a discourse on the conditions of capitalist life unfolds through works that overlap the forms of art and a reality in which market logic and exploitation have become everyday conditions, converting everything into exchange value.



As implied in the title, The B-Class Jokes is a site where the stories of "second-class citizens" who resist the hierarchy and rigidity of norms that still classify beings intersect through the community of exhibition, and where an attempt to synchronize discourse and practice take place.



(Kim Dai, Curator, Jeonbuk Museum of Art)