The Korean Cultural Centre UK (KCCUK) is pleased to announce Rehearsals from the Korean Avant-Garde Performance Archive running from 27 June - 19 August 2017, as part of the 2017-2018 Korea/UK season. The exhibition explores the development of South Korea’s performance art scene during the late 60s and 70s. Fostered in an atmosphere of rebellion against an unyielding political regime, and a social order which sought to restrict and control the body and conscience of its citizens, artists turned to performance as a medium for creative expression. Rehearsals from the Korean Avant-Garde Performance Archive focuses on how to engage with a non-Western history of performance art through live events, archival material and contemporary artistic practices.

The exhibition takes a non-linear approach to chronicling this period of artistic experimentation, instead drawing on pivotal moments in Korea’s performance art history as a framework to engage with contemporary practices today and as a method in exploring the development of a specifically Korean performance history. These moments include: Happening with a Vinyl Umbrella and a Candle, 1967 (Script by Kwang-soo Oh);Transparent Balloons and Nude Happening, May 30, 1968 (Kuk-jin Kang, Kang-ja Jung, Chan-seung Jung); Funeral Ceremony of the Established Art and Culture, 1970 (Ku-lim Kim, Chan-seung Jung, Kang-ja Jung, Son Il-gwang); Wind-Folk Amusement, 1971 (Seung-Taek Lee); Bar in the Gallery, 1973 (Kang-so Lee); Newspapers: From June 1, 1974 (Neyung-kyung Sung) and Snail’s Gallop, 1979 (Kun-Yong Lee).

Lee Kun-Yong

Korea Cultural Centre UK, London

Jun27 - Aug 19, 2017

See more at: http://london.korean-culture.org/ko/22/board/1/read/81587#sthash.KuZX5Qx8.dpuf