Cho 0 Joo - Youngjoo Cho's Artist Research-Study-Critique

Adeena Mey , Dongyeon Koh , Jo-Lene Ong , Minjoo Lee , Namsee Kim , Sinae Rha , Woong Nam , Yoonjeong Koh , Youngjoo Cho , Munjung Lee 지음 | Colin Moat 옮김

경복궁 콜라보 2024년 04월 07일 출간

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"Cho 0 Joo" is an Artistic Research-Critic book that comprehensively documents the artistic trajectory of Younjoo Cho over a span of approximately 20 years. Cho, a South Korean artist, undertook studies in France following her graduation from a university in South Korea. Subsequently, she spent approximately five years in Germany before returning to South Korea to resume exhibiting her work, particularly in the mid-2010s. This Artistic Research-Study publication received support from Arts Council Korea.

Nine Korean art critics and three international writers collaborated on this artistic research endeavor, focusing on Cho's foundational materials, descriptions of her seminal works, and recent critical analysis conducted over the past year. A catalog of 69 works spanning from her debut in 2002 was categorized into 'Solo,' 'Collective,' and 'Collaborative' projects. Each work is accompanied by essential details such as production year, medium, collection location, participants, and exhibition history. Additionally, seven project manuals outlining Cho's methodologies in constructing her works were compiled. The critical discourse revolves around themes of body, gender, care, and performance.

The research team, spearheaded by Dongyeon Koh, Namsee Kim, and
Minjoo Lee, demonstrated consistent interest in Cho's oeuvre. Yoonjeong Koh directed and edited the entire project, with contributions from domestic and international scholars including performance researcher Sinae Ra and art critic Woong Nam. Moonjeong Lee conducted interviews with Cho regarding her recent endeavors, while global writers Jo-Lene Ong, Claudia Mattos, and Adeena Mey also participated. Feminist researcher Hwajeong Kim Yoo and art critic Sunyeong Lee were integral team members, along with contributions from Taehyun Kwon's previous writings.

The book provides readers with a critical lens that identifies gaps in Cho's artistic endeavors and systematically elucidates her works through an exclusive archive encompassing films, drawings, installations, and live performances.

목차

About Artist
Chronology
About Artwork
Solo, Collective and Collaborate
Project Manual
Image Archive
Critique
Interview
Artist's CV
Credit
Supplement-Score

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저자(글) Adeena Mey

Adeena Mey is Managing Editor of Afterall Journal and a Research Fellow at the Afterall Research Centre, Central St Martins, University of the Arts London. His writing, editorial and curatorial projects explore artists’ moving image, exhibition studies, contemporary art in East and Southeast Asia, cybernetics, decolonial and cosmotechnical thought. As Principal Investigator of the digital research project ‘Black Atlantic Museum’ (Paul Mellon Centre, 2021–22) and co-initiator of the workshop series ‘Writing and Publishing Art in Southeast Asia’ (British Academy 2021 and 2023–24), he has been exploring sustainable infrastructures for new modes of writing, publishing and thinking about contemporary art based on non-Western epistemologies and thoughts. He is also a lecturer in Contemporary Art History and Theory at ECAL/Lausanne University of Art and Design, Switzerland.

저자(글) Dongyeon Koh

Dongyeon Koh, Ph. D. is an art critic and art historian, who has served as a mentor or committee for art residencies and art and film festivals in South Korea for the last two decades. Her recent books include From Soft Power to Goods: East Asian Contemporary Art and Art Popularization Strategies since the 1990s (2018) and The Korean War and Post-memory Generation: The Arts and Films in South Korea Generation: Korean Contemporary Art and Film (London, Rutledge, 2021). She is co-writing a book Modern and Contemporary Korean Art in Context (1950-Now) (London, Bloomsbury Academic, 2024) with Professor Jeongsil Lee, and currently an adjunct Professor at Ewha Womans University.

저자(글) Jo-Lene Ong

Jo-Lene Ong is a curator working from The Netherlands and Malaysia. She was program advisor for the 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale. Jo-Lene teaches at Gerrit Rietveld Academie, co-curates Canal++ film club in Amsterdam and co-founded CounterArchive a new annual event in Kuala Lumpur. Her practice engages with imperial histories of Asia and countercolonial ways of knowing, organising, and envisioning the future. She is pursuing a long-term research on reimagining and remaking infrastructure through contemporary art.

저자(글) Minjoo Lee

Majoring in Studio Art and Art Theory, Minjoo Lee writes for publications and organizes curatorial projects. She co-curated Animality in the Loop (GONG-WON, 2019), which explored the relationship between performance and performance documentation, and curated Non-caption Interview (Gallery OOOJH, 2021), which highlighted the aesthetics and political nature of documentary images. Recently, in #2 (Doosan Gallery, 2023, co-curated), an exploration was undertaken to capture the eventful nature of an exhibition from the text of theatrical plays. she contemplates what critical writing is, focusing on the events and performativity created by and the nature of images.

저자(글) Namsee Kim

Associate Professor of Art at Ewha Womans University, College of Fine Arts. Through his interest in the relationship between media and perception, he writes art critics for the work of contemporary artists. His books include <Madness, Art, and Writing< (2016), <Contemporary German Aesthetics: Dialectics of Sensation, Memory, and Thought> (2017), and <Being Seen> (2020), and he has translated u.a. Walter Benjamin's <The Moscow Diaries>, Friedrich Kittler's <Phonograph, Film, and Typewriter>, Boris Groys's <On the New>, and Markus Gabriel's <The Power of Art>.

저자(글) Sinae Rha

Sinae Rha is a choreographer, theatre director and researcher in performing arts. She creates movement-based performances and writes on dance, theater and performances art. She has been working as a collective with choreographer Kisub Choi under the name of Project YYIN, whose works include Lovers Swim the Abyss, Quad, and Becoming-dancer.

저자(글) Woong Nam

Based in Seoul, he critiques contemporary art and visual culture, and also engages in human rights activism related to LGBT+, HIV/AIDS, and refugees.

저자(글) Yoonjeong Koh

Yoonjeong Koh is currently working as an independant curator, and researches performance/interdisciplinary arts and cases that can be used in actual exhibitions, focusing on space, objects, and movement as a way to express the genre characteristics of interdisciplinary art. In addition, She engages in a variety of activities related to exhibition planning, such as creating art books, research, special lectures, and consulting. She is currently conducting research to pursue projects related to the marine ecosystem in the near future.

저자(글) Youngjoo Cho

Born in Seoul in 1978, Youngjoo Cho graduated in Western painting from the art education department of Sungkyunkwan University. After going on to earn an undergraduate and graduate (DNSEP) degree at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Arts de Paris-Cergy, she pursued an artistic career for several years while based in Berlin. She returned to Korea in 2012 and began working as an artist there; she remains based in Seoul today while taking part in numerous overseas projects. During her time in Germany, she combined her artistic activities with participation in private group activities, including her work with the Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt Art IT program and the Social Science Association. In Korea, she has participated in numerous residencies at the Gyeonggi Creation Center, the Hong-ti Art Center (Busan), Artist Residency TEMI (Daejeon), Incheon Art Platform, and Seoul Art Space Geumcheon, among others. She laid the groundwork for renewed artistic activity in Europe through a three-month residency in 2023 with the Delfina Foundation in the UK. She has received support funds from the Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, the Institut Français (art project), and Gender Equality Fund. In 2020, she was honored with the 20th SongEun Art Award. In 2022, she was selected to take part in the SFAC’s arts and technology project Unfold X. She is currently scheduled to hold a solo exhibition at the Songeun Art and Cultural Foundation in 2024.

저자(글) Munjung Lee

Moonjung Lee earned her master’s and doctoral degrees in Visual Art Studies at Ewha Womans University. In 2011, Lee began her career as an art critic. She is currently the director of Leepoétique, a research institute on contemporary Korean art. Leepoétique publishes『Critique & Colloquy』, a publication covering the work of Korean artists, and is in the process of archiving articles, essays, critiques and interviews on the institute’s website.
Lee has written numerous critiques, including「Osang Gwon’s Sculptures and Polyphony」(2020), 「Donghyun Son: The Mysteriousness of Imagination and Transformation」(2021), 「The Image Topography of Dongi Lee」(2022), and「Seungcheol Ok: Smooth Surface, Multi-layered World」(2023), and has been contributing regular「Critic Moonjung Lee’s The Gallery」 to 『Culture & Business by CNB Journal』 since 2018. Her books are『Between Disgust and Fascination-Why Contemporary Art is Drawn to the Uncomfortable』(2018, Dongnyok) and 『The World is a Gallery』(2022, Hyeonamsa).

번역 Colin Moat

감수 Eric Bozarth