What is the most urgent need that you have?
Alternative spaces are dying… they need to lean how to survive without leaning to sell paintings.
What is the best/ interesting case or project on new media arts that you have just recently experienced?
I went to “Middle Corea: Yangachi Episode II,” a solo show by Yangachi who has been involved online discourses more than 10 years. Recently becoming skeptical to the possibilities of the internet; one because the internet is no longer an another world on which people can create virtual and better world but deeply connected to the real world; second because he found his own limitation as internet based activist and being an artist at the same time; and third because he wanted to adopt his art practice that can engage in his immediate audience’s culture, Korean one, decided to present made-up stories. In current exhibition which is 2nd part of the trilogy, he makes up a story of imaginary family that undergoes Korea’s modern history; wars and dictatorships and industrialization. The family own a factory where makes artifacts bikes and armors and many other stuff that reflects the Korea’s history and mentality. The factory’s goods and their manuals as well as the stories of the family members were eloquently articulated through video, radio program, art objects.
In your opinion, is there a potential for change on and change through a policy level, i.e. has the status of policy as an accelerator/ a meaningful factor for practise changed?
I would say edu-tainment industries are the one. If the commercialization of all art related industries are the on due course, and if actual sales will limit the fine art markets into a interior design industry, we can use such business nature as strategy attacking market nitche. Using entertaining educational program, we can teach potential audience (youngsters) to enjoy fine arts, thinking, being an aristocrat.
