Clik | Edition 27 | March 2023.
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.
Presented in association with
Dance on Film is a specially curated series of contemporary dance projects developed by the Korea National Contemporary Dance Company. The series, co-presented by InKo Centre and the Korea National Contemporary Dance Company, will comprise a total of 5 films, varied in theme and technique to present some of the most exciting choreographers and dancers in Korea today. With the pandemic looming large, the films provide a window to the resilience of the artists in these unprecedented times, acknowledges the march of technology and the blurring of the real and the virtual and examines deeper fundamental questions of co-existence between Man and Nature and of the possibility of transformation and resurgence through art.
In this fifth episode of Dance on Film - Season 2, we present December 70th. This story is a survivor’s recollection. An old woman reflects on the concept of survival during the course of her life. In her encounters with 9 children during life journey, she contemplates both life and death.
December 70th is a dance film based on a reinterpretation of the performance This is Not a Game choreographed by Nam Jeongho. Movements of survival and death, achievement and emptiness in the original piece are brought back to a place in which life and death cross each other while the steps of the old woman imply nodes of death. Competition creates nodes. The time of protecting oneself and that of endurance become nodes. The door of these nodes periodially open.
Credits:
Choreography: Nam Jeongho
Director: Song Joowon
Screenplay: Nam Jeongho Song Joowon
Dancers: Kim Keonjoong, Kim Seunghae, Kim Jihyung, Nam Jeongho,
Alessandro Navarro Barbeito, Watanabe Eri, Yun Hyeokjung, Cho Junhong,
Ha Jihye, Hong Jeehyun
Producer: Ma junyeop
Cinematography: Kim Soomin
Lighting: Yang Byoungjin
Music: Lee Minhwi
Style director: Kim Seokwon
Sound mixer: Gwak Ginam Go Soobok
Editor: Kim Kyungjin
Color grading: Kim Hyunghee(DVcat)
Post - sound mixing: Bighead Sound
Location: Architect Kim Jung-up's house in Sajik-dong
Place provided: Seoul Housing and Communities Corporation
Dance on Film is a specially curated series of contemporary dance projects developed by the Korean National Contemporary Dance Company. The series, co-presented by InKo Centre and the Korea National Contemporary Dance Company, will comprise a total of 5 films, varied in theme and technique to present some of the most exciting choreographers and dancers in Korea today. With the pandemic looming large, the films provide a window to the resilience of the artists in these unprecedented times, acknowledges the march of technology and the blurring of the real and the virtual and examines deeper fundamental questions of co-existence between Man and Nature and of the possibility of transformation and resurgence through art.
Established in 2010, the Korea National Contemporary Dance Company (KNCDC) is Korea's only national contemporary dance company. Through dance created in collaboration with artists with exceptional creative capacities, KNCDC aspires to create Korean contemporary dance which tells stories of history, society and daily lives of contemporaneity that can be appreciated across regions and by all generations.
As an organization that specializes in the creation of new productions, KNCDC seeks to realise diverse contemporary values in dance performances. KNCDC commissions productions by inviting choreographers with authentic artistic directions and by selecting the most suitable dancers for each project. Furthermore, by protecting the rights of the artists, KNCDC enables artists to freely express individuality within the dance company’s stable system.
KNCDC continues to work to provide the best environment for dance where the artists and audience can grow together. And as a platform where artists and audiences meet, the company hopes to form a healthy ecosystem where diverse values can coexist. KNCDC plans to enrich the lives of citizens through their experiences with dance at close proximity, in their day-to-day life.
To view the film clik on www.inkocentre.org/Virtual_Connect_Cultural_Collaborations.html on Friday, 10 March 2023 at 6.00 p.m. IST.
The link to view the film will be accessible until Friday, 17 March 2023.
Presented in association with
We are delighted to facilitate the participation of Yu Jin Choi, Festival Director at Indie-AniFest/General Manager at KIAFA, Korea at the forthcoming edition of the International Association of Women in Radio and Television (IAWRT) Asian Women’s Film Festival in New Delhi.
Yujin graduated with a Bachelor's degree in History degree and obtained a Master's degree in Business Administration in Cultural Studies in 2007. As a professional, Yujin had been invited as a committee member to several film festivals and writes article and reports regularly. She is the general manager of the Korean Independent Animation Filmmakers Association from 2007 and is also the Festival Director of Indie-AniFest since 2017. She distributes Korean independent animation since 2010, under the project name ‘AniSEED’.
The IAWRT Asian Women's Film Festval will be held from 15 & 16 March 2023 at the India International Center, New Delhi.
Special Curation - Finding Her Way : Animated Films from South Korea - 1
• Little King | Hye-mi Kim | 11:23 mins | Animation (2D digital drawing)
• Young-suk | Jung-in Rah | 09:06 mins | Animation (2D digital drawing)
• Corner of the Room | Yun-ji Lee and Jae-beom Park | 06:42 mins |
Animation (Puppet)
• SURA | Hae-ji Jeong | 05:37 mins | Animation (2D digital drawing)
• Moth | Yeon-joo Jung | 10:41 mins | (2D digital drawing)
Interaction with Curators: Yu Jin Choi, Nina Sabnani and Anitha Balachandran.
Date: 15 March 2023. Time: 3:00 p.m - 4:00 p.m.
Venue: India International Center, New Delhi.
Special Curation - Finding Her Way : Animated Films from South Korea - 11
• A Sip of Water | Hyuna Cho | 06:37 mins | Animation (2D digital drawing)
• The Armpit Hair Girl | Da-hee Jeong and Young-seo Kwon | 06:32 mins |
Animation (2D digital drawing)
• May-JEJU-Day | Jude Kang | 14:05 mins | Animation (Drawing and cut-out)
• Cookie Coffee Dosirak | Minji Kang, Hyemi Kim, Kyunghwa Lee and
Byung-a Han | 13:07 mins | Animation (2D digital drawing)
• The Ark in the Desert | Areum Kim | 11:46 mins | Animation (2D digital
drawing)
Interaction with Curators: Yu Jin Choi, Nina Sabnani and Anitha Balachandran.
Date: 16 March 2023. Time: 3:00 p.m - 4:00 p.m.
Venue: India International Center, New Delhi.
In addition to this special curation on South Korea, the following films will also be screened:
That Day by Zhang Zifan | South Korea |8'| Student Film
That Day (그날) is a love story between an old woman with Alzheimer's
disease and her partner.
Date: 15 March 2023 Time: 10.00 a.m. - 1.15 p.m.
Venue: India International Center, New Delhi.
Etude for Beginner by Boyeong Kim | South Korea |14'|Fiction
A writer writes and erases her script repeatedly for perfection. However, the protagonist gets mad by her vacillation,
so runs away outside the script.
Date: 16 March 2023 Time: 10.00 a.m. - 10.45 a.m.
Venue: India International Center, New Delhi.
Water Celery by Yu So-young | South Korea | 28'| Non - Fiction
The sky turns shades of purple at dawn. In a quiet corner of a road stands a
street stall where a woman ties her grey hair up, puts on yellow rubber boots
and wears a large green apron. She puts a red rubber basin around her waist
and walks into a water-celery field, right behind her. That is how the day starts,
for the last water celery street vendor in Eonyang-eupseong. The camera stops
in front of her and takes a close look at her noble work.
Date: 16 March 2023 Time: 10.45 a.m. - 12.30 p.m.
Venue: India International Center, New Delhi.
The International Association of Women in Radio and Television (IAWRT) is a not-for-profit professional organization of women working in electronic and allied media. It is in consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). IAWRT organizes conferences, film festivals, and other allied activities. It also offers scholarships for professional advancement and grants for research projects.
IAWRT, Chapter India, has been organising the Asian Women’s Film Festival (AWFF) at India International Centre, New Delhi since 2005. The festival provides an eclectic creative space for women filmmakers and endeavours to showcase the work of women directors of Asian origin from across the world in different genres - documentaries, fiction, animation, experimental and student film. The three-day event is defined by the power of films and feminism in convergence with technology and education. It has become an annual veritable hub for meaningful seminars, workshops, masterclasses, filmy Addas and discussions alongside Q&A’s with visiting filmmakers.
The 18th edition of the highly acclaimed and much-awaited Asian Women's Film Festival will be held from 15 & 16 March 2023 at the India International Centre, New Delhi. The festival showcases films made by women of Asian origin from across the world. This chapter spotlights a workshop on Gender Climate Change, Climate Change......I'm living it; a seminar on Representation of Children and Women in the Media, interaction sessions, Filmy Addas and an exhibition on Afghan refugee children, An Incredible Child. From the first edition in 2005, the festival has grown in strength and popularity over the years and has become a much sought-after event for filmmakers and audiences alike. This year the festival organisers received over 1400 entries to the festival from 37 countries, the highest till date.
Supporting Partners
Alliance Française Delhi Breakthrough
Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) TISS
CRY WISCOMP
The Park Hotels A R Rehman Foundation
UNICEF, New Delhi SMART
InKo Centre
Embassy of Israel
Goethe, Max Mueller Bhawan, New Delhi
IImplementing Partners
Bennett University
Institute of Home Economics, Delhi University
For further information, please visit: http://iawrtindia.org/festival-2023/ or contact InKo Centre - T: 044-2436 1224 E: enquiries@inkocentre.org.
Hyundai Motor India Foundation, the CSR arm of Hyundai Motor India Ltd (HMIL) has been working on social development programmess around the country in the areas of Community Development, Health Care, Educational and Vocational Training, Environment, Road Safety, Art, Science, Technology, etc.
In 2021, the 25th year of Hyundai in India, HMIL launched its very first art CSR program – Art For Hope to support Art and Culture. This program supported 25 talented artists across India from different genres of art with a grant of 1 Lakh each. With the support of the grant, the artists completed their projects representing communities and hope, which was then presented for public view in an art exhibition at Bikaner House, New Delhi in March 2022.
In the second edition, the Art for Hope project has supported a fresh set of artists working on environmental, social and community centric themes and have also introduced 10 Art Foundations. The artists bring together a bouquet of art projects on various subjects under the above mentioned genres, culminating in the Hyundai’s Art for Hope Festival, in New Delhi on 27th February 2023, followed by two exhibitions in Chennai and New Delhi thereafter.
Launched in year 2021, the Art for Hope initiative was the auto industry’s first dedicated CSR program in the field of art to unearth and nurture hidden talents in diverse fields of art, craft and culture across the nation.
This is the 2nd edition of the programme where 25 artists and 10 art collectives have been selected for the grant, from fields of Visual, Digital, Performance & Folk and Traditional Art & Craft from over 200 entries received from 87 cities and 25 states.
The six-day Art for Hope Festival is a presentation of their artistic interpretation of various themes along with an array of art workshops, talks and performances for the audience. The exhibition is inclusive and has been made accessible for persons with disability, including an audio visual tour in sign language. Workshops on printmaking, traditional arts like Madhubani and Gond in addition to tie and dye, block printing and landscape art are planned. Special guided tours are available for the audience daily.
28 February to 5 March 2023, at LTC Building, Bikaner House, New Delhi.
16 to 19 March 2023, Selected artworks will be on view from
at The Gallery @ InKo Centre, Chennai.
For further informtion, please mail hyundaiartforhope@gmail.com or contact InKo Centre - T: 044-2436 1224 E: enquiries@inkocentre.org.
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We are delighted to facilitate the participation of Unhappy Circuit, a new media artist from South Korea at the FutureFantastic Festival organised by BeFantastic in association with FutureEverything in Bengaluru. Unhappy Circuit's work is based on a fusion of art, science, technology and multidisciplinary perspectives that encompass linguistics, anthropology, ecology, futurology and cosmology. The main theme that permeates his work is an exploration of the unknown. The artist hopes to expand our understanding of ourselves and the cosmos through insights gained from exploring unknown possibilities and ultimately seeks the next direction for humanity.
FutureFantastic is a first-of-its-kind AI and Arts festival in India that highlights the power that collaborative creative production has in amplifying a global response to our shared climate emergency. The festival was conceptualised by BeFantastic in partnership with FutureEverything (UK) through the generous contribution of its primary supporters, The British Council’s India Together UK Season of Culture, and Rohini & Nandan Nilekani Philanthropies.
FutureFantastic aims to be a multi-venue event spanning across Bengaluru showcasing a heady mix of AI-enabled artworks and performances. We also invite you to participate in panels and workshops led by experts in tech, art and sustainability to bring to the fore a multidimensional perspective to the conversation.
All of this with the belief that as engaged global citizens, we can create a radical, open, and optimistic future. Together.
Unhappy Circuit’s work will be showcased at Bangalore International Centre (BIC) as follows:
Friday, 24 March 2023 - 7.00 p.m. onwards.Whales, like humans, can feel and express emotions, live in a complex society, and have a language system for communication. In addition, Whales have evolved together by sharing an ancestor with all mammals on the Earth, including humans. However, humans have long threatened the survival of whales, which still persists nowadays.
This work is an attempt to create music that whales and humans can listen to and interact with by converging blue whale vocalization and human music using artificial intelligence. Through this attempt, the work depicts the future in which whales and humans understand each other and coexist together.
Through the life and death of whales, we can face the true nature of humanity. This is not irrelevant to the numerous tragedies in human history that have occurred without understanding each other and the current situation of human civilization that still lives with the potential to destroy ourselves.
Unhappy Circuit
Unhappy Circuit is a new media artist in Korea. His work is based on a fusion of art, science, technology and multidisciplinary perspective that encompasses linguistics, anthropology, ecology, futurology, and cosmology.
The main theme that penetrates his work is an exploration of the unknown. He wants to expand our understanding of ourselves and the cosmos through insights gained from exploring the unknown possibilities, and ultimately seeks the next direction for humanity.
He has participated in various exhibitions hosted by art institutions such as Hyundai Motor Group's ZER01NE, Asia Culture Center, Arts Council Korea, Taiwan C-LAB and Ars Electronica .ART Gallery. In addition, his works were collected by Jeju Museum of Contemporary Art in Korea.
BeFantastic.in is a techart platform that originated in Bangalore, India in 2017. BeFantastic convenes and engages a vibrant international community of techart creators and experts to push the boundaries of technology and the arts. BeFantastic has been incubated by Jaaga, an NGO that was established in 2009, dedicated to the vision of providing a safe, neutral and community driven place for creators, technologists, learners and entrepreneurs. Working with a three pronged approach, including CoLab, a space for collaborative creation the hallmark of which is our international Fellowship program, Dialog, our open public speaker series on the state of technology and the arts, and Showcase intended to engage the public to expand the field, including online convenes and a festival. Its founding team comprises experienced architects, designers, artists and technologists with a track record in connecting their practice with participatory community processes, and in-depth experience of engaging stakeholders both private and public sector agencies.
In 2017, Jaaga’s Befantastic launched a pioneering techart festival supported by Karnataka Tourism called Bengaluru Fantastic that used the UN Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) as a framework for creating public discourse via a variety of techart installations, performances an interactve art activties with support from 42 local, national and international partners.
Subsequently from 2019 to 2022, the BeFantastic Fellowships & workshops have been designed and delivered, with close to 110 TechArt Fellows, a community of 360 Tech-artists, 40 experts in Dialog panels, 14 mentors who have engaged in the programme with approximately 50 prototype ideas that have emerged.
For further information, please visit: https://futurefantastic.in/
Programming: https://futurefantastic.in/programme/
Ticket Link: https://in.bookmyshow.com/events/futurefantastic/ET00353616
Unhappy Circuit’s work will be showcased at Bangalore International Centre (BIC) as follows:
Friday, 24 March 2023 - 7.00 p.m. onwards.
Saturday, 25 & 26 March 2023 - 11.00 a.m. onwards.
To register and for further information, please contact E: hello@befantastic.in or T: 9113971957.
For further information, please contact: InKo Centre T: 044-2436 1224 E: enquiries@inkocentre.org.
Presented in association with
The Morning Calm an exhbition curated by independent curator, Insang Song, featuring 7 contemporary artists from Korea, focuses on the nature-friendly ideology as well as the quiet contemplative gaze integral to Korean traditional painting. Aligned to the calm before the morning breaks, the exhibition showcases myriad perspectives of this phenomenon through distinctive visual language,
As the sun rises, morning unfolds it's glory. Morning has many meanings. It can be a sign of a strong start to the day and it could also symbolise the moment of meeting a new world after a difficult period. Korean painting, based on Korea's nature-friendly traditional ideology, contains a contemplative gaze on nature and a quiet, still moment just before conceiving something. It resembles the unfolding of the morning. All seven Korean painters will display the phenomenon of the 'morning', through a distinctive visual language.
- Insang Song, Curator.
Featuring:
• Kim Chun Ok
• Hur Jin
• Song Keunyoung
• Cho Inho
• Yang Jeongmu
• Park Minhee
• Jeong Jun-kyo
B.F.A Seoul National University., M.F.A Sejong University (Painting Department)
63 solo exhibitions. (1981~2022),
850 group exhibitions.
Participated in International Art Fairs (Köln, Chicago, New York, Seattle, Zurich,
Geneva, Strasbourg, Beijing, Shanghai, Singapore KIAF.)
Okgwan Cultural Medal awarded by President of the Republic of Korea.
B.F.A, M.F.A. Department of Oriental Painting, Seoul National University (Major in Oriental Painting)
32 solo exhibitions.
Today's Young Artist Prize 2001(The Section of Fine Arts, Awarded by Ministry
of Culture & Tourism)
19th Heo Baek-ryeon Art Prize, Gwangju Metropolitan City Culture and Art
Awards (2015)
21st Yongbong Academic Awards (Chonnam National University, Gwangju),
2017.
37th Judge-selected Special Artist Prize (The Korean Association of Art Critics,
Seoul), 2017.
Currently, Professor of Department of Korean Painting, College of Fine Arts,
Chonnam National University.
B.F.A & M.F.A, Department of Oriental Painting, Seoul National University.
18 solo exhibitions.
Participated in Art International Zurich, Shanghai Art Fair, Korea International Art
Fair, China International Gallery Exposition, Bridge Art Fair, Europ'ART,
The affordable Art Fair Singapore, The affordable Art Fair Milano.and in
300 domestic and international exhibition.
BFA, MFA, and Ph.D Department of Oriental Painting, Seoul National University
Solo exhibitionsat various galleries/museums including Hanbyeokwon. Art
Museum (Seoul), KEPCO Art Center (Seoul), and Shin Hwa Gallery (Hong
Kong).
Participated in Jeonnam International SUMUK Biennale, Cheongju International
Craft Biennale and various art fairs including Art Busan and Asia Top Gallery
Hotel Art Fair.
Currently, Professor, Department of Oriental Painting, College of Fine Arts,
Seoul National University.
Ph.D, Department of Oriental Painting Hongik University, Korea.
16 solo exhibitions.
13 International exhibitions. (Korea, USA, German, China etc)
290 group exhibitions.
Currently, Professor at Sookmyung Women's University.
B.F.A, M.F.A Department of Oriental Painting, Seoul National University.
12 solo exhibitions.
120 group exhibitions.
Participated in International Art Fairs: KIAF (Korea International Art Fair),
Affordable Art Fair Singapore(Singapore), Seattle Art Fair (Seattle, U.S.A),
Daejeon International Art Show(Daejeon) etc.
Graduated from Kyonggi University Painting Department, Department of
Psychology and Graduate School of Art and Design.
Ph.D. in Art Therapy from Calvin Graduate School of Counseling and
Psychotherapy.
11solo exhibitions, over group and invitational exhibitions abroad.
Currently, CEO of Counseling Psychological Research Center Namu and
Adjunct Professor at Kyonggi University College of Arts and Physical Education.
Insang Song is an independent curator based in Seoul and New Delhi. He worked in the Art Museum of Seoul Art Center for more than 22 years, during which period, he planned more than thirty exhibitions and events including Hybrid Trend (30 artists from India and Korea, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, 2006), The Lamp of the East (presented by InKo Centre at Lalit Kala Akademi, Chennai, 2010), Pink City Art Project (Jkk, Jaipur, India, 2011), While working as Art Director at the Korean Cultural Centre India (2012-2016), he curated Moving Korea (Korean Cultural Centre India, 2012), AMMA UMMA (India International Centre, Delhi, 2013). 1 L0tus 8 _Korean Zen Buddhism and Bodhidharma, (National Museum New Delhi, 2015). Chilika Art Sanctuary (tribal and folk painting from 7 countries, Odi Art Centre, Odisha, 2020-2021). He is currently is curating independent art projects and researching Indian tribal and traditional art.
The Korea Painting Association was instituted for the purpose of promoting the excellence of Korean painting that reflects the aesthetic consciousness of the Korean people and to contribute to the development of Korean painting. This organization annually presents the 'Korean Painting Day' event and regularly holds exhibitions and academic events related to Korean painting
The exhibition will open at The Gallery @ InKo Centre on Friday, 24 March 2023 at 6.00 p.m. IST.
The exhibition will be on view until Friday, 24 May 2023 (Except Sundays and published holidays).
For further information, please contact: InKo Centre T: 044-2436 1224 E: enquiries@inkocentre.org.
