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We are delighted to connect with you through live events at physical spaces, via hybrid modes or virtually at the click of a button! We invite you to join us, whenever you are ready, or from wherever you are, on myriad creative journeys, where with valued partners in India and in Korea, we explore new pathways and experiences, the magic of live performances and exhibitions or engage with those newly imagined from creation to reception and distribution on digital platforms. In this edition, as we open our cultural calendar, through a combination of phygital presentations, we invite you to evocative journeys and sensory experiences that though moored in local culture, connect and resonate with audiences worldwide!

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

Season’s Greetings. 계 절 인사말.

02
December

Stand in Solidarity or Sit in Silence!

- an evening of poetry at InKo Centre.

Presented by


Stand in Solidarity or Sit in Silence! An Evening of Poetry with Prajnya, will feature Chennai-based poets Srilata K, Kutti Revathi, Manushi Bharathi, Aaliyah Banu and Vatsala, sharing their poems on the theme of solidarity. A few poems by Korean poets on the theme of gender violence will also be shared.

Every year, hundreds of organisations worldwide use the 16 Days of Activism against Gender Violence platform to advocate the elimination of all forms of violence against women. In Chennai, Prajnya has been spearheading the 16 Days Campaign Against Gender Violence since 2008. Every year, from 25 November to 10 December, at multiple locations across Chennai, Prajnya’s campaign raises awareness of the different ways in which women in particular are vulnerable to violence, at home, at their place of work, on campuses and in public spaces.

About Prajnya

Prajnya is a Chennai-based non-profit that has been working to promote gender equality and peace education for 15 years. Its gender equality work focusses on training, workshops and discussions, bystander intervention, collaborations with civil society for ongoing public education and advocacy.

The Prajnya Archives has helped create visibility as a repository for the work women do in public affairs. Its capacity-building projects, includes a civic rights education programme and skill-training sessions for women in the social sector.

Prajnya’s peace education work is built around training school administrators and teachers on how to integrate peace education into their classroom practice; citizenship education which focusses on constitutional awareness and school activities to promote general knowledge about peace issues. To know more about Prajnya, visit prajnya.in.

Stand in Solidarity or Sit in Silence! An Evening of Poetry with Prajnya, will be presented on Friday, 2 December, from 6.30 to 8.30 p.m. at InKo Centre.

For further informtion, please contact T: 044-2436 1224 E: enquiries@inkocentre.org,
E: programmes.prajnya@gmail.com M: +91 97908 10351.


This is a physical event and all prescribed Covid-related protocols will be strictly followed.

12 December 2022
to
10 April 2023

The Sonic Fabric by Haegue Yang

- at the 5th Kochi Muziris Biennale

Presented with support from


KIA India Ltd.

InKo Centre, with support from KIA India Ltd, are delighted to support acclaimed South Korean contemporary artist Haegue Yang's work at the 5th edition of the Kochi Muziris Biennale Yang’s famed sonic works will be brought to the audiences in a new commission that will be created specially for this edition of Kochi Muziris Biennale.

HaegueYang’s works are internationally appreciated, and known for their eloquent and seductive language of visual abstraction that is often combined with sensory experiences. Lesser known is her ongoing research, which is empowered by close readings of connecting biographical narratives of historical figures, and builds on underlying references to cultural, social and political history.

Her work The Sonic Fabric, will occupy the central exhibition space at the Biennale with a sophisticated sensory experience that will include sound, light and tactility. The Sonic Fabric will envelop the exhibition with sound, creating a specific atmosphere that is visual, spatial and aural. Found objects are covered with stainless steel plated bells, disintegrating the rigorous physical geometry into another illusory geometry of circles. Bells that have been a recurring element in a number of Yang's works over the past few years have only very recently been used as a principal material for the installation.

The Sonic Fabric wilbe on view from Monday, 12 December 2022 until, Monday, 10 April, 2023 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

The Kochi Biennale Foundation will present the 5th edition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale from December 12, 2022 until April 10, 2023. Curated by Singaporean artist Shubig Rao and titled In Our Veins Flow Ink and Fire, the exhibition will bring together 80 artists and collectives with over 45 new commissions. Originally scheduled for December 2020 and postponed due to the pandemic, the event will be held across multiple venues in Fort Kochi and Ernakulam, in Kerala, India.

In her curatorial framework, Rao notes, “A biennale can be so much more than a mere accumulation of coincidental collisions. As a bulwark against despair, the biennale as commons may seem an impossible idea. But we remember the ability of our species, our communities, to flourish artistically even in fraught and dire situations, with a refusal in the face of disillusionment to disavow our poetry, our languages, our art and music, our optimism and humour. To envision this biennale as a persistent yet unpredictable murmuration in the face of capriciousness and volatility comes from my unshakeable conviction in the power of storytelling as strategy, of the transgressive potency of ink, and transformative fire of satire and humour”.

About The Kochi-Muziris Biennale:

The Kochi-Muziris Biennale is a project founded and organised by the Kochi Biennale Foundation. Established to develop and execute cultural and educational initiatives, amongst them to host India's first Biennale. The custodianship of a sustainable platform for contemporary art in South Asia is central to the Foundation's purpose.

To this end, the Foundation works around the year to promote national consensus on investment in contemporary art infrastructure and to broaden public access to art across India. You can see a brief overview of the previous editions via the virtual exhibition on Google Art Project. www.google.com/culturalinstitute/collection/kochi-biennale

The Kochi-Muziris Biennale is a non-profit, artist initiative that actively seeks funding from participating countries and other cultural agencies, as well as exhibition sponsors to assist with meeting the costs of production, freight, installation, travel and exhibition expenses. The Biennale has successfully received funding from several international embassies, arts councils, foundations and partner organisations.


About Haegue Yang:

Haegue Yang was born in 1971 in Seoul, South Korea. She has been dividing her time between Germany and Korea since the mid-1990s. These countries are also home to her two studios, where she works on a myriad of projects. Yang studied sculpture at Seoul National University as well as at the Städelschule in Frankfurt. Since 2018, she has been teaching at her alma mater in Frankfurt. In 2006, the self-initiated exhibition Sadong 30 was staged in her grandmother's abandoned house in Incheon, a satellite city of Seoul on the west coast of Korea, and it is regarded as her seminal exhibition today.

In 2018, Haegue Yang was awarded the Wolfgang Hahn Prize by the Gesellschaft für Moderne Kunst, Museum Ludwig, Köln.

Yang's work has been presented in solo exhibition by the following institutions: SMK, Copenhagen (2022); Tate St Ives, St Ives (2020); Museum Of Modern Art, New York (2019); The Bass, Miami Beach (2019); South London Gallery (2019); Museum Ludwig, Köln (2018); KINDL - Centre for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2017); Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg (2016); Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (2016); UCCA Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing (2015); Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul (2015); Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2015); Tate Modern, London (2012); Kunsthalle Lingen (2011); Aspen Art Museum (2011); Kunsthaus Bregenz (2011); New Museum, New York (2010); Walker Art Center (2009); South Korean Pavilion, Venice Biennale (2009); Sala Rekalde, Bilbao (2008) among others.

Her works are featured in the collection of numerous institutions, including the Tate Modern, London, U.K.; the Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A.; Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA, U.S.A.; Museum Ludwig, Köln, Germany; Museum of Modern Art, New York, U.S.A.; M+, Hong Kong amongst others.


About The Sonic Fabric:

Yang's famed sonic works will be brought to the audiences in a new commission that will be created specially for this edition of the Kochi Muziris Biennale.

Yang's works are internationally appreciated, and known for their eloquent and seductive language of visual abstraction that is often combined with sensory experiences. Lesser known is her ongoing research, which is empowered by close readings of connecting biographical narratives of historical figures, and builds on underlying references to cultural, social and political history.

Her work will occupy the central exhibition space at the Biennale, with a sophisticated sensory experience that will include sound, light and tactility. The Sonic Fabric will envelop the exhibition with sound, creating a specific atmosphere that is visual, spatial and aural. These 'lines' and 'geometric shapes' that create the fabric are objects that are covered with stainless steel plated bells, which transforms the hard-edged shapes into 'circles,' disintegrating the rigorous physical geometry into another illusory geometry of circles.

Bells have been a recurring element in a number of Yang's works over the past few years and have only very recently been used as a principal material in several new sculptures, including Sonicwears (2013), Sonic Rotating Ovals (2013) and Sonic Dances (2013).

The Sonic Fabric wilbe on view from Monday, 12 December 2022 until, Monday, 10 April, 2023 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

The Fifth Edition of Kochi-Muziris Biennale runs from 12 December, 2022 All venues are open every day from 10 AM - 6 PM.

For further information, please contact: InKo Centre T: 044-2436 1224 E: enquiries@inkocentre.org.


This is a physical event and all prescribed Covid-related protocols will be strictly followed.

Presented in association with












Seo Jungmin, plays the 25-string gayageum and is an accomplished composer from South Korea. She consistently composes and plays music based on research that has a deep resonance with Korean traditional music even while she draws from her activities on the world stage over the last nine years, from her experiences as a member of the Korean traditional music duo 숨[Su:m] and from collaborations with various artists regardless of genre and region.

Her interests, in particular, are to examine the environment that she finds herself in, to capture small moments of daily life and to sublimate them into impressive music with new nuances, inspired by other artists, Her latest work is One, My Utopia! (2021), inspired by the Gut (traditional shamanistic ceremony of Jeollado which is in the southern part of Korea). This work was introduced at the 2021 PAMS-Choice and at the 2022 C

The India tour titled YOUtopia features:
Seo, Jung-Min (25-string Gayageum)
You, Byoung Wook (Janggu, Jing, Cymbals)
Baek, Da Som (Daegeum)
Park, Soojung (Jeongjae, Minsukmoo)

About our partners in India:

Phoenix Marketcity Chennai

Phoenix Marketcity Chennai is a joint venture of Phoenix Mills Ltd & Crest Ventures Pvt Ltd. The Marketcity is a concept born out of a bold vision to offer India’s urban consumers a place where they can find the best brands, fantastic entertainment options, superlative dining and an overall exciting experience. ‘Phoenix Marketcities’ are aimed at a quality and brand-conscious consumer, and each project offers the increasingly affluent Indian, the most enjoyable shopping experience with the best products the world has to offer.

Kalakshetra Foundation, Chennai

Started in January 1936 on the grounds of the Theosophical Society in Adyar, Chennai, as an academy for the preservation of traditional values in Indian art, Kalakshetra Foundation gained international recognition under Rukmini Devi’s guidance for its unique style and perfection. Kalakshetra is today, a vital centre of training and performance. The focus of the institute is on Bharatanatyam and related subjects — music, instruments, visual art, percussion, theory, textual heritage, crafts, aesthetics, history and spirituality. As a performance company, Kalakshetra productions are widely recognized for their impeccable technique and refined aesthetics.

Women’s Christian College

Women's Christian College (WCC) was founded in 1915 with 41 students and 7 faculty members, as a result of the joint venture of 12 missionary societies of interdenominational and international nature located in England, in Canada and in USA, with a mission to provide higher education to the women of India in liberal arts and sciences.

Rajagiri Centre for Business Studies

Rajagiri Centre for Business Studies is a brand owned by Rajagiri which represents the management programs - MBA and MA (HRM) offered by School of Management- Rajagiri College of Social Sciences and PGDM and FPM offered by Rajagiri Business School.

The MBA and MA (HRM) programmes offered by the School of Management- Rajagiri College of Social Sciences are autonomous programs affiliated with Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam. Both PGDM and FPM Programmes offered by Rajagiri Business School are AICTE approved. The PGDM Programme has been granted equivalence to an MBA degree offered by any Indian University by the Association of Indian Universities. MBA, MA (HRM) and PGDM are internationally accredited by the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP) USA.

The management programmes are hosted at the picturesque valley campus at Kakkanad. The management programs are driven by a single-minded focus on imparting value-based management education to equip young professionals to make their mark in the corporate world.

The education at Rajagiri goes beyond academics and concentrates on the development of the holistic personality of the students. Rajagiri Believes in continually raising its bar and is relentless in its pursuit of excellence by nurturing management professionals with exceptional creative ability and social sensitivity.

Kochi-Muziris Biennale

The Kochi-Muziris Biennale (KMB) is an international exhibition of contemporary art held in the city of Kochi in Kerala, India. It is the largest art exhibition in the country and the biggest contemporary art festival in Asia. The Kochi-Muziris Biennale is an initiative of the Kochi Biennale Foundation with support from the Government of Kerala. The Kochi-Muziris Biennale seeks to invoke the latent cosmopolitan spirit of the modern metropolis of Kochi and its mythical past, Muziris, to create a platform that will introduce contemporary, global visual art theory and practice to India.

KMB attempts to showcase and debate new Indian and international aesthetics and experiences and enable a dialogue among artists, curators, cultural practitioners, and the public. The exhibition is set in spaces across Kochi, with shows being held in existing galleries, halls, and site-specific installations in public spaces, heritage buildings and disused structures. Indian and international artists exhibit artworks across a variety of mediums including film, installation, painting, sculpture, new media and performance art. Through the celebration of contemporary art from around the world, the Kochi-Muziris Biennale seeks to invoke the historic cosmopolitan legacy of the modern metropolis of Kochi, and its mythical predecessor, the ancient port of Muziris. Alongside the exhibition the Biennale offers a rich programme of talks, seminars, screenings, music, workshops and educational activities for school children and students.

About the artists:


Seo, Jung-Min (25-string ,Gayageum): The Gayageum is one of the most representative string instruments among Korean traditional instruments. It is a zither-type string instrument that is plucked with bare hands. The resultant music is divided into Jeongak (palace music) Gayageum, Sanjo (scattered melodies) Gayageum, and Gaeryang (modernized) Gayageum. The gayageum Seo plays is a 25-string Gayageum, a representative form of Gaeryang Gayageum.

You, Byoung Wook (Janggu, Jing, Cymbals): The Janggu is a drum (buk) played with a stick (chae) and it is the only percussion instrument that can be tuned to produce pitches. The jing belongs to the metal category of traditional Korean percussive instruments. It is made of brass in the shape of a flat basin. Originally it was used, along with the buk, or barrel drum, as a signaling device in the military, but today it is widely used in Korean percussion music, including the renowned samulnori. It is held in the left hand or hung on a frame and is struck with a mallet that has a soft, cloth-wrapped head. Its sound is majestic yet soft, and the sound it exudes continues to resonate for a long time.

Baek, Da Som (Daegeum): The daegeum is a large bamboo flute, a transverse flute used in traditional Korean music. It has a buzzing membrane that gives it a special timbre. It is used in court, aristocratic, and folk music, as well as in contemporary classical music, popular music and film scores. The daegeum has a wide range and has a fixed pitch, so other instruments tune in to the daegeum when playing together.

Park, Soojung (Jeongjae, Minsukmoo): Soojung’s movement is based on the Korean royal court dance called Jeongjae which has its own strict rules and fixed movements. Jeongjae was developed in the royal court, starting from the Chinese-inspired Silla period through top the Joseon Dynasty. She also draws from traditional folk dance, Minsukmoo, which, as an art of the ordinary, allows improvisation and freedom for dancers to express their emotions as freely as they wish to.

Chennai:

Monday, 12 December 2022 | 7.00 - 8.00 p.m, at Phoenix Mall, Chennai.
Tuesday, 13 December 2022 | 7.00 - 8.00 p.m, at Kalakshetra, Chennai.

Wednesday, 14 December 2022 | 10.00 a.m. to 1.00 p.m. Workshop in Kalakshetra, Chennai, 3.00 to 5.00 p.m. Demonstration at Womens Christian College, Chennai.

Kochi:

Friday, 16 December 2022 | 6.00 - 7.00 p.m at Business Scchool, Kochi.
Saturday, 17 December 2022 | 7.00 - 8.00 p.m at Cochin Club - Auditorium, Kochi Muziris Biennale, Kochi.

For further information, please contact: InKo Centre T: 044-2436 1224 E: enquiries@inkocentre.org.


This is a physical event and all prescribed COVID-related protocols will be strictly followed.

Copresented by



The Mumbai Biennale 2022, is the second in a series of curated, bi-annual exhibitions that aim to showcase the range and variety of contemporary paintings from Korea and India. Following the success of the Chennai Chamber Biennale, initiated in 2013, such large expositions of contemporary paintings will be periodically presented, alternately in Chennai and Mumbai respectively. The first edition of the Mumbai Biennale in 2018, presented a focused collection of 120 contemporary artworks from Korea and 70 artworks of artists from across India who are illustrious alumni from the Sir J.J. School of Art, Mumbai. The second edition in 2022 will have works by 150 contemporary Korean artists and 100 Indian artists, drawn from faculty and alumni from the JJ School of Art in particular and from across Maharashtra, more generally.

K-Art International Exchange Association, Korea and InKo Centre, in association with the Sir J.J. School of Art, are delighted to present the 2nd Mumbai Biennale, a large-scale exposition of contemporary paintings from Korea & India.

Inauguration on Saturday, 17 December 2022 at 4.30 p.m. at the JJ School of Art, Mumbai.

Creative Dialogues: a symposium with Korean & Indian contemporary artists, will be held on Sunday, 18 December 2022 from 2.00 p.m. to 5.00 p.m. at the Sir JJ School of Art, Mumbai.

The exhibition will remain open until Friday, 30 December.

For further enquiries, please contact: Sir J.J. School of Art, 78, Dr D.N.Road, Fort, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400001 M: 9821595493 / 8425857357 / 9821726063. T:+91- 22-22621652. or contact InKo Centre, 18, Adyar Club Gate Road, Chennai - 600 028. T: 044-2436 1224 E: enquiries@inkocentre.org.


This is a physical event and all prescribed COVID-related protocols will be strictly followed.

The Cultural Heritage Series
is presented in association with

The National Intangible Heritage Center, Republic of Korea.

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

In Season 2 of the popular series that focuses on the intangible heritage of Korea, we highlight Yeongsanjae, the representative the spirit of Korea.

A central element of Korean Buddhist culture, Yeongsanjae, is a re-enactment of Buddha’s delivery of the Lotus Sutra on the Vulture Peak in India, through which philosophical and spiritual messages of Buddhism are expressed and people in attendance develop self-discipline. Yeongsanjae begins with a ritual reception for all the saints and spirits of heaven and earth and concludes with a farewell ritual representing manners of the otherworldly realm of Buddha, with singing, ceremonial adornment and varied ritual dances such as the cymbal dance, drum dance and ceremonial robe dance. The other components include a ritual cleansing, a tea ceremony, the dedication of a rice meal to the Buddha and Bodhisattvas, a sermon inviting the audience to the door of truth and a ritual meal for the dead to congratulate them on their entry into heaven. Preserved chiefly by the Taego Order of Korean Buddhism based in Seoul, the Yeongsanjae is held in temples throughout the Republic of Korea to help all beings enter the world of truth by worshipping and admiring the Buddha and his laws and monks. The ceremony serves as an important space for transmission of values and art forms and for meditation, training and enlightenment.

Cultural heritage can be tangible or intangible. Tangible cultural heritage refers to things that we can store or physically touch. Examples of tangible cultural heritage include traditional clothing, tools, buildings, artwork, monuments, and modes of transportation. Intangible cultural heritage refers to things that are not physical items but exist intellectually. Intangible cultural heritage includes oral traditions songs, rituals, values, superstitions and myths, beliefs, social practices and the knowledge and skills to produce traditional crafts. The Intangible Cultural Properties (무형문화재) are aspects of intangible culture that the government of South Korea has officially designated for preservation under the supervision of South Korea's Cultural Heritage Administration. Exceptional individuals are designated as the holders or invaluable repositories of these craft or performance traditions, and are referred to and supported as Living National Treasures.

About The National Intangible Heritage Center, Republic of Korea:

The National Intangible Heritage Center's mission is to retrieve Korea's intangible cultural heritage from the past, to preserve it and to increase its value for future generations.

Set up in 2013, The National Intangible Heritage Center (NIHC) is located in Jeonju, a city known for its traditional music, architecture and cuisine. NIHC is the first complex administrative institution for safeguarding and transmission of Korean Intangible Cultural Heritage.

NIHC has various facilities such as permanent/special exhibition galleries, performance halls, archives, international conference rooms, learning spaces.

The primary roles of NIHC are safeguarding, transmitting, and fostering Korea's Intangible Cultural Heritage through research, archiving, exhibitions, performances, educational programs, support for the Masters of Intangible Cultural Heritage practices, and extension of the market for traditional crafts.

To view this epiosode, tune in to https://www.inkocentre.org/CHS_season2_yeongsanjae.html on Thursday, 22 December 2022 at 6.00 p.m. IST.

The link to view the film will be accessible until Thursday, 29 December 2022.