The fifth volume of NOON, the Gwangju Biennale Foundation’s journal of modern art and criticism, has been released. Since 2009, the Gwangju Biennale Foundation has published NOON annually in order to produce intellectual discourse combining aesthetics and humanities in the field of global modern art.

This issue, NOON 5:Society & Social, deals with social discourse in the field of visual culture and the value of change in the production of social art. Of particular note is a special interview with the internationally-known Slovenian scholar Slavoj Zizek.

This edition contains six features, compiled by president of the Gwangju Biennale Foundation Yongwoo Lee, and an editors’ roundtable. In the roundtable, editors Yongwoo Lee, Seo Dongjin, Sumi Gang, Suki Kim, and Taekgwang Lee hold a discussion on the subject of modern art after the social turn.

The features include "Art after the Social Turn: An Impossible Encounter Between the Aesthetic and the Political" by Seo Dongjin (Professor, Kaywon University of Art and Design), "Participation and Spectacle: Where Are We Now?" by Claire Bishop (Professor, The Graduate Center, CUNY), "Urban Design in the three-gears city" by Jacques Donzelot (Professor, UniversiteX), "The World Built from the Below: Documentary Aesthetics in the History of Realism" by Stefan Jonsson (Professor, Linköping University), "Instituting Change: Protocol as a Productive Space of Conflict" by Marcuse Miessen (Professor, StadelschuleFrankfurt), and "Transition and Idling" by Jangun Kim (Professor, Kaywon University of Art).

In editor Taekgwang Lee’s (Professor, Kyung Hee University) interview with Slavoj ?i?ek (Researcher, Institute for sociology and philosophy, University of Ljubljana) the two discuss the confrontation of ideology and international affairs and analyze Korea’s divided society. Additionally, we explain the theme of the tenth Gwangju Biennale, "Burning Down the House."

NOON is published in Korean and English.

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