Exhibition Information

Untitled
1979 14 Stones, A monitor 120cmx260cmx260cm

걸레
1974/2001 DVD(VHS Copy) 2min 8s

The Sound of the Scenery + Eyes for the field
1988 Mixed media

Sea of Time
1993 Digital image, Mirror, Lightbox, Fancylight, etc. 6min, 4min

			《Korea Video Art 7090: Time Image Device》 is a special exhibition that explores the history of Korean video art for more than 30 years from the 1970s to the 1990s. The exhibition, subtitled "Time Image Device," sheds light on the generational characteristics and changes of Korean video art, starting with 1970s video art experimenting with concepts of time, behavior and process, to device video sculptures in the 1980s and 1990s, as well as single-channel video and multi-channel video in the late 1990s that focused on image images and descriptions. The exhibition, which will showcase some 130 works by some 60 leading video artists in South Korea, will relapse 30 years of Korean video art and explore the identity of Korean video art.

As a diverse art practice related to the video media, Korean video art appeared in the Korean art scene in the 1970s with experimentation, novelty and alternative meaning. Since then, South Korea's video art has been transformed, closely linked to the transformation of technology and media such as TV and VCR and video cameras and computers as well as topographical changes in contemporary Korean contemporary art. The exhibition takes a three-dimensional look at the development of Korean video art amid changes in the environment, media and media inside and outside the art.

The exhibition will consist of a total of seven themes, including "Korea’s Early Video Art and Experimental Art," "Descape Experiment and Technology," "Video Fragmentation/Video Kinetic," "Social, narrative, video," "Mass Consumers Culture and Video Art," "Single Channel Video, Multi-Channel Video." It interprets the history of Korean video art, which was transformed and evolved through the context of technology and video culture, science and art, devices and narrative, and images and concepts, using a line and a bell called "Korean contemporary art of the contemporary era" as a line of seeding and flying.

The exhibition is another meaningful step in re-producing historically important video works to restore some of the history of Korean video art, lay the groundwork for future MMCA video exhibitions as well as introducing Korean video art overseas. 《The Korea Video Art 7090: Time Image Device》, which outlines the historical context of Korean video art in the late 20th century, is expected to provide a forum for domestic video art discourse, criticism and creation.