The 16th Gwangju Biennale Pre-Programme Workshop: One or Multiple Gwangju(s)

As an early experiment in thinking together, the 16th Gwangju Biennale Pre-Programme Workshop on 13 December sets the conceptual and affective groundwork for the upcoming Biennale. We invite you to join us in imagining how these ideas may unfold in the year ahead.

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Structured in two parts, Session 1 One or Multiple Gwangju(s)? begins with Artistic Director Ho Tzu Nyen’s introduction to one of the Biennale’s central enquiries: change. He will outline changes of different natures, scales and rates—weather self-willed or imposed. Professor Jeong Myungjung follows by reframing May 18 as a “multiplicity,” tracing its collective assemblage and emergent change. Park Gahee closes the session by revisiting how the city of Gwangju has appeared throughout previous editions of the Biennale, opening up possibilities for thinking about Gwangju as a composite and continuously changing entity.

Session 2 Possible Pathways to Gwangju(s) opens with Che Kyongfa discussing how artistic practice generates perceptual transformations that allow us to understand change not as an event, but as a reconfiguration of our relations to the world. This will be followed by a series of presentations by artists CAMP, Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork, Park Chan-kyong, and Wang Tuo, each sharing the central enquiries, trajectories or shapes of their distinct practices. The session concludes with Brian Kuan Wood’s reflection on how these artistic practices and themes shape the next edition of the Biennale.

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