Clik | Edition 2 | August 2020.

We are delighted to connect with you virtually at the click of a button! We invite you to join us, whenever you are ready, from wherever you are, on myriad creative journeys, where with valued partners in India and in Korea, we explore new pathways and experiences, re-visit the magic of past performances and exhibitions or present those newly imagined from creation to reception and distribition on digital platforms. In this edition, through photographs, films, artworks, storytelling, music and words, we present evocative journeys, sensory experiences that are moored in local culture but travel the world to resonate with audiences worldwide!

We hope, with this e-digest, to stay meaningfully connected with you, to discover, engage and connect with the unique, local characteristics as well as the shared, global dimensions of the dynamic, ongoing intercultural dialogue between India and Korea.

The Inward Eye

Date: Saturday, 8 August 2020 | Time : 6.00 p.m. IST

Clik: https://www.youtube.com/user/InKoCentre

Inward Eye

Photographs courtesy
Kim, Honghee

The Inward Eye
- a photographic journey by Kim, Honghee

Photographs are repositories of journeys taken and memories cherished. The Inward Eye is a virtual exhibition, an evocative photo narrative by acclaimed Korean photographer Kim,Honghee. Through sensory frames, complemented with words and music, we glimpse a natural world, colour imagined in black and white, movement suggested in stillness, reflection encouraging the inward eye to quietly draw what is outside, within.

"A hermitage is a small temple which is part of a larger temple, or a house where monks dwell temporarily to reflect, meditate and work towards finding the Way. If a large temple can be considered as the body, a hermitage is the mind. Going to the hermitage is a way of moving forward to meet the spirit of the Buddhist temple. Korean hermitages in particular preserve the essence of Zen Buddhism. In that sense, walking around the hermitage is a way to experience Zen Buddhism which is the essence of Korean Buddhism. I want to take this mysterious journey with you in India."

- Kim Honghee


Chennai Biennale
an e-compendium.

Date: Friday, 14 August 2020 | Time : 5.00 p.m. IST

Clik: http://www.inkocentre.org/Virtual_Connect_Infotainment.html

Chennai Biennale

The Chennai Biennale, is a series of curated exhibitions that aims to showcase the range and variety of contemporary paintings from Korea. Curated by K-Art International Exchange Association and co-presented with InKo Centre, with support from several Korean organisations, these large-scale expositions of contemporary paintings are presented bi-annually in Chennai.

This e-compendium showcases the work of close to 500 exceptional senior and emerging contemporary Korean artists, presented over four editions from 2013-2019.

Flip through the pages to view the artworks, techniques and thematic concerns of some of the most exciting contemporary painters in Korea today!

In association with
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Travelling Titles

Date: Wednesday, 19 August 2020 | Time : 4.00 p.m. IST

Clik: Youtube.com/tarabooks

Travelling Titles

Ideas and stories traverse the globe and help us to stay connected even when we remain rooted to one place! Join us for a series presented in association with Tara Books that aims, through storytelling and activity-based interactions, to focus on how we might make sense of books cross-culturally.

Working with over half a dozen publishers in Korea, there are currently 12 Tara titles available in Korean. This series of talks and interactions, focuses on 5 popular titles, one every month, from July to November 2020.

Featured this month, the second in the series, is the globally acclaimed Knock! Knock! created by Japanese illustrator Kaori Takahashi and published in Korea by Borim Press. Join us as we take you through the history and making of the book - from its inception in a workshop to its evolution into a book.

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The Cultural Heritage Series
Episode 1: Hanji

Date: Saturday, 29 August 2020 | Time : 6.00 p.m. IST

Clik: https://www.youtube.com/user/InKoCentre

Learn Korean Online

Cultural heritage provides both tangible and intangible representations of the values, beliefs, traditions and lifestyles of prior generations. which through careful preservation continues to have relevance in contemporary times.

In this episodic series we focus on unique craft traditions of Korea where over centuries, knowledge and processes have been carefully preserved and painstakingly transmitted inter-generationally, with passion, rigour and respect.

We begin with Hanji, the resilient, versatile paper from Korea that to this day is made following processes that arch back several centuries. With two films, courtesy the Korean Craft and Design Foundation (KCDF) and artist Aimee Lee, along with select photographs, we present the wonder that is hanji, its incredible toughness yet gossamer-like lightness - Korea's unique cultural heritage and gift to the world!

Hanji

- a film presented in association with

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