1. Running Room is an anti-plan intending to run away from the perfect plan. The curatorial method elaborated by Daewoong Ahn, once adopted in the project called Laboratory (2016) at Community Space Litmus, Ansan, with several artists. Suspending a completion of the art work, produced the ideas in the middle of the production course being saved, shared, discussed, and extended. In Laboratory, curator and artists had so-called positive feedback each other, so that artists presented the result-in-the-course in their own way, probably provisionally, in which any limitation or curatorial recommendations had not involved. Running Room followed the former Laboratory curatorial method. Curator and artists had feedback each other about the ideas of specific district, Dae-rim-dong in Seoul. The feedback, too, proceeded in the manner of automatism, provisional and impulsive. In doing so, the key words elaborated by artists: Amur River, border, camera, carer, downsizing, Èlúnchūnzú, foot-and-mouth disease, landscape, MǎnzhōuGuó, metastasis, paramnesia and street cleaning, which come to the subtitle of Running Room.
2. Litmus located in Wongok-dong, Ansan opened in 2007 has dealt with multi-culturalism, where Haemin Ryu worked and participated the several projects, including festivals, exhibitions and language study during 2013-5. In doing so, she felt certain ashamed regarding making relationship between immigrants, which has been often used up as casual subject-matter of the art. Ryu felt need to more theoretical background, which came to her motivation to enter a graduate school. Studying and working together in Seoul, Ryu's interest of Wongok-dong slightly moved to Daerim-dong, closer to Seoul, at the same time, much similar to Wongok-dong. So, the subject-matter of Running Room began with Wongok-dong, and has passed through Daerim-dong.
3, Running Room conceived as an alternative of the conventional art production protocol today, especially in Seoul. Contemporary art grant institution in Korea put the art structurally on a conveyor belt, which goes like in this way: planning, application, presentation, receiving the money, working and finally settlement. This reasonable administration process expects the work completed before actual completion. Perhaps, it would be not that wrong if one says the very essential part of the art production today exists in presentation files. The perfect promise collaged with Word and Photoshop, which is the most factual references to qualified/not-qualified procedure. That is to say, grant institution which possibly would allow the autonomy of the art, now has been regulating the possibility of the art work from the very beginning of the production. Could the art today run away from this conveyor belt? This is the question Running Room wants to suggest.
4. People today simply think of Daerim-dong as lamb skewers. While working and saving money and opening lamb skewer restaurant have come to 'dream of middle class' of Cháoxiǎnzú, ethnic Korean in China, today's enthusiasm towards Mat-Jib (Korean slang, good place to eat) have formed the lamb skewer business area in Daerim-dong. Here, we see Daerim-dong as hip place of lamb skewer restaurants, therefore instagramable. In the different view, Daerim-dong often has been represented as illegal place. Its representation has been intermittently repeated even in recent case called female police attacking incident in Daerim-dong. While manic reactions from so-called the Left and the Right emerged on this issue, the words Daerim-dong or 40 years old Cháoxiǎnzú man intermittently had been represented on the media in a very coldhearted manner, even very rarely. Here, we see Daerim-dong as "Criminal City," therefore the object to be policed. Lamb skewers which gives us pleasure, and the drunken pleasure of 40 years old Cháoxiǎnzú man are incommensurable, therefore to be controlled. So, the sense surrounding Daerim-dong has been distributed unequally, in fact which should be. Daerim-dong is supposed to be a pleasure place to us, Korean in this way. However, In the realistic, lamb skewers hold an not quite great position in Daerim-dong. Here, dried tofu, Chinese pepper, Yabian melon and etc., which simply excesses the pleasure of lamb skewers, which have been constituting their life form. These other pleasures are important subject-matter of Running Room.
5. What Film-maker Minwook Oh explored here is the residues of which could not be parts of a brand new film, Letters to Buriram (2019) which firstly presented in 24th Busan International Film Festival. According to an email from Oh, "walking on the Daerim-dong, seeing the landscape, I had recalled two places. Harbin and shamans. The feeling was unavoidably striking my head rather than recalling a certain paramnesia. That is to say, the landscape of Harbin and shaman where I have been to in order to making the film since 2017, was hitting on my head. Walking on the Daerim-dong street, I realized that it is impossible to not recall the landscape of Harbin and shamans. This unavoidably was replaying inside of my head. [...] Then, I came back to Busan by a train. Getting off at Busan Train Station, my sight had been choosing preferentially a china town across a street. Visiting Jun-ju one more time and the film was completed, and then came back to Busan by bus, with people who speak possibly Chinese. Now I am thinking of researching the residue which could not become the film while the last Sunday of September is passing by."
6. Famously known as a Pop artist, Youngmean Kang spreads out an automatism on a A0 size wall chart. The following is a certain conversation on Kakao Talk: "[Kang] [10:08 AM] The idea of the oriental peace=Asianism [Kang] [10:09 AM] I am chasing after groups sharing an archi-type of Asianism and its idea before coming itself to Japanese imperialism. [Kang] [10:09 AM] The vestiges has been passing on to now Yong-so-ya, etc. [Kang] [10:10 AM] The time point would be a big bang. [d] [10:10 AM] It usually comes out from Japanese fantasy mangas as well. [d] [10:10 AM] I can suppress my own fury, but If you really want to break off the peace of my companies, then, I cannot avoid to use my secrete power. [d] [10:11 AM] Collecting the power from my companies... [Kang] [10:11 AM] That's it. [d] [10:11 AM] Mina sekai mamoru [Kang] [10:11 AM] Its archi-type is Asianism. [Kang] [10:11 AM] Intellectuals of Asia helped Gab-Shin-Jung-Byun, [Kang] [10:12 AM] Asian strays united to kill Min-bi, the Queen of Korea. [Kang] [10:13 AM] The Continental strays gazing Amur River. [Kang] [10:13 AM] Ito is actually their foe. [Kang] [10:13 AM] He actually follwed the western breaking the oriental peace.[d] [10:13] In an ecological view, Amur River is [d] [10:13] the origin of all eastern species. [Kang] [10:14 AM] Amur River = Black Dragon River [d] [10:14] Following an origin of animals and fishes in Korea [Kang] [10:14 AM] Where the Aryan of Manchoukuo came from. [d] [10:14 AM] Everything gathering to Amur River. [Kang] [오전 10:14 AM] That's the idea of Manchoukuo [d] [10:14 AM] The ecologist met Hongchun said so. [Kang] [10:14 AM] The archi-type of Asia is there."
7. Jaeha Ban collaged the logic of the capitalism using immigrants in general in Korea. She says: "The story I have continuously been interested in is a ironical logic of a function of border or sovereignty. [...] Every year local governments proceed the stamping out animals that get foot-and-mouth disease as well as AI, African swine fever, and so on. Corporations smelling the money have emerged because of this. These corporations have mobilized of course precarious day laborers as well. Stamping out laborers are consisted of approximately 100% of immigrants. In stamping out process, I would like to set aside suicides of the laborers or deaths of government officers from overwork. Laborers are exposed to the dead bodies during all the process of stamping out. Obviously, their traumas, basic education and man power caring have not been a consideration at all. The county suspending visa control pulling in immigrants, distributing the whole amount of a budget to the stamping out companies, everybody no needs to do troublesome works. If foot-and-mouth disease is a signifier, in the other side, there is a logic of the capital called Downsizing. And I would like to set the Border which is a code binding the Foot-and-mouth disease and Downsizing. Immigrants and downsizing can be exist because of the border."
8. Gihyun Jo, as a film-maker, part-time navvy and carer, undergoing inside conflicts between life and aesthetic, is making a question: a sense of authority which is normally believed to be its undermined condition today, is it able to recuperate in the documentary again? "But I [...] thought that making less gap of 'a form which might be able to be qualified in the institution' is a smart strategy artists can take on. I thought it was kind of a tuning, like a frequency, art institutions into life. Michel Gondry's work, The Thorn in the Heart (2009) could be a good example. This documentary shows a story of making a life-history of Gondry's aunt supported by a family of Gondry and staffs of. This film is full of everyday life story such as meeting aunt's old friends and recalling passed days and having dinner together. Completing 70-80% of the film, the edited version of the film is presented to the family. The film shows a son of aunt who came out and her feeling regarding this. They eventually know each other in the process of making the film, so that came to a reconciliation after decades. It's not that dramatic, but they still have become able to talk about coming-out event as a topic. I thought this is a good example in which obtaining some aesthetic quality in the cinematic situation and an authority of everyday-life-community are gathered together."
9. Running room is the critical term coined by American art critic Hal Foster, in fact, at the same time, which is the english translation of German critic Karl Kraus' term spielraum, a function distinguishing art from kitsch. It is obvious that we need the room, because, even if we could define status quo as 'the age of grant,' existence of Black List of the Left artists was revealed as the fact. Art production conveyer belt is similar, when it comes to presentation session, always qualified/not-qualified judgement here. This power have constructed the art world now. Agreed? Nevertheless, if we still want to call the art should be different, this semi-autonomous room suggested by Foster would be not very bad choice. Running away from endlessly recuperating quasi-arts using grants for fuel and infinitely idling grant institutions using quasi-arts for fuel, the curatorial of Running Room tried to recall the semi-autonomous sense of the art.
Daewoong Ahn and Haemin Ryu.
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