'74 Contemporary Art Festival, Brochure, 1974, MMCA Art Research Center Collection, Gift of Lee Kunyong
Daegu Contemporary Art Festival
* Source: Multilingual Glossary of Korean Art. Korea Arts Management Service
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Video art
A genre of modern art that uses video as a medium. After Paik Nam June created the first works of video art in 1963, the genre spread internationally. Video art explored new artistic possibilities using advanced technology and embodied a rejection of conventional art media. Video art was quick to drawn critical attention because of the relative immediacy that underlies the creation and display of such works, and the efficiency of the medium as means to portray and interlink a large number of images. Following Paik Nam June ’s early experiments with TV monitor installations in the 1960s, in the 1970s new forms of work emerged that combined video and performance art.
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Gangwon Provincial Contemporary Art Festival
Gangwon Provincial Contemporary Art Festival was an art festival held in the Gangwon-do region twice in 1977 and 1979. Starting with the first Daegu Contemporary Art Festival in 1974, contemporary art festivals named after regions began to spring up across the country in the late 1970s, including the Seoul art festival in 1975, the Busan art festival in 1976, the Cheongju art festival in 1977, and the Jeonbuk (Jeonju) art festival in 1978. Along these lines, the Gangwon Provincial Contemporary Art Festival was launched with the goal of fostering art in the Gangwon-do region and promoting the art of its local people. The first festival was held from May 1 to 14, 1977 at the Gangwon Provincial Cultural Center in Chuncheon with 150 artists participating. In the first catalogue, Lee Unsik, a member of the Gangwon Contemporary Art Festival Operating Committee and a representative of the Gangwon branch of the Korean Artists Association [Hanguk misulga hyeophoe], stated the significance of holding the art festival as resolving the imbalance of cultural awareness between the central region and local regions and providing an opportunity to exchange information among artists. The catalogue also contained biographies of the participating artists and images of their works, albeit in black and white. The festival featured works from a variety of trends and genres, including Eastern paintings in the landscape painting style, figurative paintings, abstract paintings, and sculpture. The second festival was held from August 23 to 28, 1979 at the Chuncheon City Cultural Center. 150 artists joined the festival geared toward introducing a wide range of works by artists centered in the Gangwon-do region. The Gangwon Provincial Contemporary Art Festival is considered to have failed to showcase regional characteristics or attract the attention of the art world. Nevertheless, it produced important materials, such as biographies of artists, who were active mainly in the Gangwon-do region in the 1970s, and images of their creations.
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Performance
Performance is a genre within which artists use their voice, body, and objects to express their artistic vision through live action. It became popularized after World War II as an experimental genre through the work of John Cage and Merce Cunningham. Performance can be related to other movements of the period such as action painting, body art, happening, process art, Fluxus, and conceptual art. It is characterized by audience participation, improvisation, spontaneity, and provocativeness. The first work of performance in Korea is widely considered to be The Happening with Plastic Umbrellas and Candle Lights performed by Kang Kukjin, Chung Chanseung, Kim Youngja, Jung Kangja, Shim Sunhee, and Kim Inwhan during the Union Exhibition of Korean Young Artists held at the Korean Information Service Gallery in December 1967.
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