Talking Misul x Mediacity Seoul 2016 Special Edition was inspired by the “Meeting on Community Art: the exhaustion (regeneration) of public art.” Artists and activist artists in this meeting raised questions on broad issues of community art or public art based on their own practices. The project reflects some of those questions: what alternative publicness has the art pursued with the projects?; which communities did the artists encounter and make mutual relationships with them through the projects; what were the failures and traumas left by these community works?; what changes occurred in artists and their practices through community activities?; at which point were they successful and did they make a turning point?; how have art critics written about and assessed community-engaging practices?; is community one of the artistic paradigms of our times?; isn’t the public/world the subject of community art instead of artist?; consequently, could community and art (or public art) integrate as one entity? Talking Misul x Mediacity Seoul 2016 Special Edition is completed through two times of sub-projects. This provides a platform where we/they could continue to produce a discourse through questions and answers rather than finding one single answer to art-community relation in which has many complicated unresolved issues occur.
