Installation view of 《Korean Video Art from 1970s to 1990s: Time Image Apparatus》

《Korean Video Art from 1970s to 1990s: Time Image Apparatus》 is a special exhibition surveying the 30-year history of Korean video art from 1970s to 1990s. This exhibition subtitled “Time Image Apparatus” highlights the periodic characteristics of and changes in Korean video art, from video works of the 1970s that experimented with the ideas of temporality, performance, and process to video sculptures of the 1980s and the 1990s that approached video as a mechanical apparatus and single-channel videos that emerged in the late 1990s that concentrated on the image and narrative. Introducing more than 130 works by 60-some video artists representative of Korea, this exhibition recontextualizes the 30-year history of Korean video art and inspects its independent identity. The exhibition comprised seven themes: “Korean Early Video Art and Experimental Art,” “Post-Genre Experiments and Technology,” “Video Sculptures and Kinetic Video Art,” “Body/Performance/Video,” “Society, Narrative, and Video,” “Mass Consumption Culture and Video Art,” and “Single-Channel and Multi-Channel Videos.” The keywords “the times” and “Korean contemporary art” are used as warp and weft yarns to penetrate and weave together the multilateral aspects and the complex history of Korean video art, which has transformed and evolved within the ambivalent contexts of technology and video culture, science and art, device and narrative, and the image and concept.

Further information:
https://www.mmca.go.kr/eng/exhibitions/exhibitionsDetail.do?exhId=201911200001208