Korean Exhibition 2012: Woman + Body
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Theme
Woman + Body explored the range of sexual identification - female, transgender, and male - with a contemporary, 21st century view. The subject of the female body was well-explored in the 1960's and produced many discourses in the 90's, related to such issues as AIDS, cosmetic surgery, stereotyping and discrimination. What is new? This exhibition seeks works by women that explore the human body from these perspectives:
1) Woman's Body as Subject: unabashed exploration of women's bodies and women's desires- unaltered, unadulterated images that set a new standard of beauty.
2) Transformation and Crossover: Bodies altered through cosmetics, cosmetic surgery, tattoos, sex change, cross dressing, costuming and other means to achieve a metamorphosis.
3) Man's Body as Subject: a woman's view of the male body - affectionate, lustful, critical, envious.
1) Woman's Body as Subject: unabashed exploration of women's bodies and women's desires- unaltered, unadulterated images that set a new standard of beauty.
2) Transformation and Crossover: Bodies altered through cosmetics, cosmetic surgery, tattoos, sex change, cross dressing, costuming and other means to achieve a metamorphosis.
3) Man's Body as Subject: a woman's view of the male body - affectionate, lustful, critical, envious.
Background
Hye-Seong Tak Lee, a Korean WCA Member-At-Large, independent curator, artist and lecturer at Gwangju University, initially proposed this collaboration between WCA artists and Korean women artists for October 2012 when she attended the WCA Annual Conference in Los Angeles in February 2012. Many thanks go to Priscilla Otani (WCA president), Karen Gutfreund (WCA National Exhibitions Director), Ms. Lee and Sherri Cornett (WCA International Caucus Chair and Woman + Body Exhibition Co-Director) for making this exhibition happen under a short timeline and with many challenges. This exhibit occurred at the same time as, but not as part of the 2012 Gwangju Biennale. The Biennale (description provided below), was organized for the first time by six young women artistic directors from Asia and the Middle East, and included activist themes. It ran from September 7 through November 11, 2012. This was a unique opportunity for WCA members to participate in an international women art and activism exhibition.
Hye-Seong brought together some warm, generous and talented women artists for this exhibition. Three immensely respected women artists from Seoul agreed to participate: Yun Suknam, Park Youngsook, Jung Jungyeob. Here is a video of the exhibition in Seoul.
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Juror, Artists, Press
Juror
Tanya Augsburg is a feminist interdisciplinary performance scholar who specializes in contemporary art and performance. Dr. Augsburg has been teaching at San Francisco State University since 2007, where she is Assistant Professor of Liberal Studies in the areas of the Creative Arts and Humanities. Most recently, she was the Juror/Editor and on the Curatorial Committee of WCA's Man as Object: Reversing the Gaze. She is curator of Joanna Frueh: A Retrospective, which was held at the Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno, in 2005, and editor of the accompanying exhibition catalog of the same title (2005). She is author of Becoming Interdisciplinary: An Introduction to Interdisciplinary Studies,2nd Ed. (Kendall/Hunt, 2006) and co-editor of The Politics of Interdisciplinary Studies (McFarland, 2009). Other publications have appeared in The Drama Review: 'The Journal of Performance Studies';Text and Performance Quarterly; Issues in Integrative Studies; n.paradoxa: 'International Feminist Art Journal'; and Critical Matrix: 'The Princeton Journal of Women, Gender and Culture.' Her most recent research examines feminist art and collaborative art practices.
WCA Artists Included in Woman + Body
Curated Works:
Korean Artists Included in Woman + Body
Press and Blogs
The Asia Cultural Complex blog
http://blog.naver.com/cultureasia?Redirect=Log&logNo=40172308068&from=postView
Laurie Edison, whose photographs were included in Woman + Body, has written about the exhibition in her feminist blog Body Impolitic. Her first post can be read here
http://laurietobyedison.com/discuss/?p=8376#comment-1329759
Laurie Edison's second blog about Woman + Body, focusing on the Korean artists
http://laurietobyedison.com/discuss/?p=8643
Laurie Edison's blog reposted on Feminista
http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2012/10/23/photographs-in-international-feminist-exhibition-in-korea/
ArtNews
http://artnews.me/?p=14164
ArtSum
http://www.artsum.co.kr/ex_detail.php?num=888
WomanCS
http://www.womancs.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=4590
Monthly Photo.com
http://www.monthlyphoto.com/news/exhibition_view.asp?seqs=2827&page=1
Homae
http://press.honammaeil.co.kr/newsRead.php?no=657500
Economic Post
http://www.economicpost.co.kr/bbs/board.php?bo_table=artist&wr_id=100
Design Sori
http://designsori.com/exh/414003
Photo.co.kr
http://www.photo.co.kr/news/view.php?w_seq=237&kind_code=10
NToday
http://www.ntoday.co.kr/atc/view.asp?P_Index=2122
4x4 News Korea
http://www.4x4.co.kr/detail.php?number=1687&thread=34r02
International Korean Business Centre
http://www.ikbc.net/news/view.html?smode=&skey=macho+metal+culture&x=0&y=0§ion=1&category=5&no=48713
ChosunBiz
http://biz.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2012/10/16/2012101602151.html
ACROFAN - The Contents Agent Group
http://www.acrofan.com/ko-kr/life/news/?mode=view&cate=02&seq=36223&wd=20121015&ucode=00000046&page=2
News1 Korea
http://news1.kr/articles/854576
News Hankuk
http://www.newshankuk.com/news/content.asp?fs=1&ss=4&news_idx=201210161447521267
Energy Daily
http://energydaily.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=39358
Yahoo! Korea
http://kr.news.yahoo.com/service/news/shellview.htm?linkid=463&articleid=20121015172600756b3&newssetid=5
Chinca
A magazine styled blog created, written and curated by English-speakers living in South Korea focusing on on event previews, reviews, and Korea-based photography, art and music.
http://chincha.co.uk/2012/10/events-korea-october/
Korean Press Agency
http://www.koreapressagency.com/news/view.html?skey=%BA%B8%B5§ion=1&category=7&no=72256
JoinsMSN
http://article.joinsmsn.com/news/article/article.asp?total_id=9736650
News Nocut
http://press.cbs.co.kr/newsRead.php?no=657500
Koreaen.co.kr
http://www.koreaen.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=29684
iPhos webzine
http://webzine.iphos.co.kr/webzine/news/exhibition_view.asp?ins_no=4417&newsartist_type=2
ETNews Korea
http://www.etnews.com/list/press_view.html?id=0657500
Coca News
http://cocanews.com/?doc=news/read.htm&ns_id=19386
Korea Media United News
http://www.kmunews.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=582
ArtGuide Korea
http://daljin.com/?WS=21&BC=gdv&GNO=D003287&sfl=&stx=&date=201210&tab=&area=&cate=&genre=&kind=
Other Information
Gwangju Biennale
Please see the link below to the Gwangju Biennale website page (in English). The theme of this biennale is "Roundtable" and explores "the possibility of democratic and non-hierarchical exchange concerning global cultural production, through various forms of collective endeavor, research into historic entanglements among societies, and the exploration of diverse contexts of belonging." Again, Woman + Body is not part of this biennale, but will be in venues within the biennale areas. We do have the opportunity for our art to engage these visitors. as well as set up the groundwork for possible inclusion in the 2013 biennale.
http://gb.or.kr/?document_srl=400528&mid=news&mode=04&sub=01#0
WCA Members Only from the U.S.
We made a decision early on to offer this show to WCA members only on the U.S. side (current members as well as women who joined WCA by July 1st)- as a way to thank our members in advance for supporting this exciting opportunity and as acknowledgement that this first international exhibition in many years asked more of applicants (self-shipping, short time frame) than we hope to ask in the future. Self-identified women can find out more about WCA on the WCA website http://www.nationalwca.org and join WCA online via http://www.nationalwca.org/applicants/application.php
Catalogs
Bilingual catalogs were printed by the Gwangju Cultural Foundation in South Korea. ISBN#978-0-9831702-5-9
Shipping
All shipping was done through Fedex by individual artists. All necessary documentation for shipping internationally was handled by the artists, who were advised to mark the boxes with "gift-no value" or "no commercial value, for cultural exchange purposes only", to avoid tariffs.
Printing Photographs in Korea
Ms. Lee arranged for photographs to be printed in Korea. If printed in Korea, works were destroyed after the closing of the final exhibition in Gwangju, unless arrangements were made to ship the works back to the artist. Destruction of art work protects copyrights and prevents unauthorized use of the art work.
Tanya Augsburg is a feminist interdisciplinary performance scholar who specializes in contemporary art and performance. Dr. Augsburg has been teaching at San Francisco State University since 2007, where she is Assistant Professor of Liberal Studies in the areas of the Creative Arts and Humanities. Most recently, she was the Juror/Editor and on the Curatorial Committee of WCA's Man as Object: Reversing the Gaze. She is curator of Joanna Frueh: A Retrospective, which was held at the Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno, in 2005, and editor of the accompanying exhibition catalog of the same title (2005). She is author of Becoming Interdisciplinary: An Introduction to Interdisciplinary Studies,2nd Ed. (Kendall/Hunt, 2006) and co-editor of The Politics of Interdisciplinary Studies (McFarland, 2009). Other publications have appeared in The Drama Review: 'The Journal of Performance Studies';Text and Performance Quarterly; Issues in Integrative Studies; n.paradoxa: 'International Feminist Art Journal'; and Critical Matrix: 'The Princeton Journal of Women, Gender and Culture.' Her most recent research examines feminist art and collaborative art practices.
WCA Artists Included in Woman + Body
Curated Works:
- Chanel Govreau, "Queen Gidrea Family Armor"
- C.M. Judge and Paula Rendino Zaentz, "On Mine Hands, On Thine Hands"
- Brenda Oelbaum, "The Willendorf Project" and "Results May Vary"
- Priscilla Otani, "All Dolled Up"
- Karen Purdy, "Captain Underpants"
- Trix Rosen, "Beyond XY - Inside the Abandoned Falstaff Brewery, No.
- Ann Rowles, "Mix and Match"
- Elaine Alibrandi, "I Have the Fee in Here Somewhere"
- Jessica Burke, "She Wishes It Was True"
- Krista Jiannacopoulos, "The Breast of a Man" and "Man's Hairy Breast and Nipple"
- Laurie Edison, "Marlene Hoeber", "Jerry Kellan McCracken", and "Kellan McCracken"
- Lee Lee, "Cradle"
- Mary Shisler, "Aphrodite's Walk"
- Pamela Flynn, "Fetish #3"
- Patricia Tinajero, "What Women Want"
- Sandra Mueller, "Venus Swirls"
- Sheri Klein, "What Women Say and Think About Their Bodies"
- Sherri Cornett, "Skin Muscle Sinew"
- Tracy Brown, "Macho Metal Culture"
Korean Artists Included in Woman + Body
- Yun Suknam
- Park Youngsook
- Jung Jungyeob
- Min Kyung Kwon
- Lee Ju Ree
- Lee, ja yeon
- Kim Min Hyung
- NANDA
- Ryu Jun Hwa
- YOU Hyeonkyeong
- Jueon Kim
- Byun Hyun Soo
- Lee R I'm
- Yoon, Sung Hee
- Eunju Kim
- Miru Kim
- Hayoung Joo
Press and Blogs
The Asia Cultural Complex blog
http://blog.naver.com/cultureasia?Redirect=Log&logNo=40172308068&from=postView
Laurie Edison, whose photographs were included in Woman + Body, has written about the exhibition in her feminist blog Body Impolitic. Her first post can be read here
http://laurietobyedison.com/discuss/?p=8376#comment-1329759
Laurie Edison's second blog about Woman + Body, focusing on the Korean artists
http://laurietobyedison.com/discuss/?p=8643
Laurie Edison's blog reposted on Feminista
http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2012/10/23/photographs-in-international-feminist-exhibition-in-korea/
ArtNews
http://artnews.me/?p=14164
ArtSum
http://www.artsum.co.kr/ex_detail.php?num=888
WomanCS
http://www.womancs.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=4590
Monthly Photo.com
http://www.monthlyphoto.com/news/exhibition_view.asp?seqs=2827&page=1
Homae
http://press.honammaeil.co.kr/newsRead.php?no=657500
Economic Post
http://www.economicpost.co.kr/bbs/board.php?bo_table=artist&wr_id=100
Design Sori
http://designsori.com/exh/414003
Photo.co.kr
http://www.photo.co.kr/news/view.php?w_seq=237&kind_code=10
NToday
http://www.ntoday.co.kr/atc/view.asp?P_Index=2122
4x4 News Korea
http://www.4x4.co.kr/detail.php?number=1687&thread=34r02
International Korean Business Centre
http://www.ikbc.net/news/view.html?smode=&skey=macho+metal+culture&x=0&y=0§ion=1&category=5&no=48713
ChosunBiz
http://biz.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2012/10/16/2012101602151.html
ACROFAN - The Contents Agent Group
http://www.acrofan.com/ko-kr/life/news/?mode=view&cate=02&seq=36223&wd=20121015&ucode=00000046&page=2
News1 Korea
http://news1.kr/articles/854576
News Hankuk
http://www.newshankuk.com/news/content.asp?fs=1&ss=4&news_idx=201210161447521267
Energy Daily
http://energydaily.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=39358
Yahoo! Korea
http://kr.news.yahoo.com/service/news/shellview.htm?linkid=463&articleid=20121015172600756b3&newssetid=5
Chinca
A magazine styled blog created, written and curated by English-speakers living in South Korea focusing on on event previews, reviews, and Korea-based photography, art and music.
http://chincha.co.uk/2012/10/events-korea-october/
Korean Press Agency
http://www.koreapressagency.com/news/view.html?skey=%BA%B8%B5§ion=1&category=7&no=72256
JoinsMSN
http://article.joinsmsn.com/news/article/article.asp?total_id=9736650
News Nocut
http://press.cbs.co.kr/newsRead.php?no=657500
Koreaen.co.kr
http://www.koreaen.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=29684
iPhos webzine
http://webzine.iphos.co.kr/webzine/news/exhibition_view.asp?ins_no=4417&newsartist_type=2
ETNews Korea
http://www.etnews.com/list/press_view.html?id=0657500
Coca News
http://cocanews.com/?doc=news/read.htm&ns_id=19386
Korea Media United News
http://www.kmunews.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=582
ArtGuide Korea
http://daljin.com/?WS=21&BC=gdv&GNO=D003287&sfl=&stx=&date=201210&tab=&area=&cate=&genre=&kind=
Other Information
Gwangju Biennale
Please see the link below to the Gwangju Biennale website page (in English). The theme of this biennale is "Roundtable" and explores "the possibility of democratic and non-hierarchical exchange concerning global cultural production, through various forms of collective endeavor, research into historic entanglements among societies, and the exploration of diverse contexts of belonging." Again, Woman + Body is not part of this biennale, but will be in venues within the biennale areas. We do have the opportunity for our art to engage these visitors. as well as set up the groundwork for possible inclusion in the 2013 biennale.
http://gb.or.kr/?document_srl=400528&mid=news&mode=04&sub=01#0
WCA Members Only from the U.S.
We made a decision early on to offer this show to WCA members only on the U.S. side (current members as well as women who joined WCA by July 1st)- as a way to thank our members in advance for supporting this exciting opportunity and as acknowledgement that this first international exhibition in many years asked more of applicants (self-shipping, short time frame) than we hope to ask in the future. Self-identified women can find out more about WCA on the WCA website http://www.nationalwca.org and join WCA online via http://www.nationalwca.org/applicants/application.php
Catalogs
Bilingual catalogs were printed by the Gwangju Cultural Foundation in South Korea. ISBN#978-0-9831702-5-9
Shipping
All shipping was done through Fedex by individual artists. All necessary documentation for shipping internationally was handled by the artists, who were advised to mark the boxes with "gift-no value" or "no commercial value, for cultural exchange purposes only", to avoid tariffs.
Printing Photographs in Korea
Ms. Lee arranged for photographs to be printed in Korea. If printed in Korea, works were destroyed after the closing of the final exhibition in Gwangju, unless arrangements were made to ship the works back to the artist. Destruction of art work protects copyrights and prevents unauthorized use of the art work.
