The Art of Oral Statement and Record

In this event, Park Chan-kyong and Gim Jong-gil engaged in a conversation on curatorial strategies in Korean and Asian art, particularly as manifested in the biennale format. Novelist Gong Sun Ok gave a lecture recalling a personal encounter with an elderly woman who may have been a spy or a ghost, using oral history as a method to bring historical memory closer to the body through vivid detail. Artist Haejun Jo led a workshop reflecting on modern Korean history as told through the voices of himself and his father, offering a polyphonic narrative that resists the generalizations and objectivity often demanded by dominant historical discourse.

Discussion: Park Chan-kyong, Gim Jong-gil “Curatorship for a Biennale and Methods of Testimony”
Lecture: Gong Sun Ok “Grandmother Hiding Like a Spy and Praying Like a Ghost”
Workshop: Haejun Jo “Amazing Father - Journey of Oral Statement and Record”