Park Hyunki, Untitled, 1986, TV, stone, videotape, 207×51×46cm. MMCA collection
Park Hyunki
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The Daegu Contemporary Art Festival was an annual contemporary art festival held in Daegu between 1974 and 1979. Three-dimensional works and paintings were frequently presented in the festival. The first exhibition (1974) and second exhibitions were primarily held in indoor exhibition halls, but the third exhibition expanded its venue to include both indoor and outdoor spaces. This third exhibition was divided into two parts, a major component of which was Lee Kangso, Park Hyunki, Chong Jaekyoo, Lee Jongyoon, and Jang Jeongjin’s collective outdoors piece titled Event in Nature. In addition, the Korean Art Association board members, including Park Seobo and Ha Chonghyun, came to Daegu to moderate a panel discussion about contemporary art and the concerns of avant-garde artists for the third exhibition. In the fourth exhibition, a significant inclusion was the video works of Park Hyunki, Kim Deoknyun, and Kim Youngjin, while in the fifth and final iteration of the festival, Lee Kun-Yong reenacted his piece Logic of Place, initially staged at the AG Exhibition (1975). In the contemporary period, The Gangjeong Daegu Contemporary Art Festival (Gangjeong daegu hyundae misulje), incepted in 2012, has continued in its tradition.
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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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Korean Experimental Artists Exhibition
The Korean Experimental Artists Exhibition was an exhibition on experimental art held by artists from Daegu, including Lee Kangso, Lee Hyangmi, Park Hyunki, and Hwang Hyunwook, from March 6 through June 11, 1974 at the Daegu Department Store Gallery. After forming a collective called Sincheje with his colleagues from the Department of Painting in the College of Fine Arts at Seoul National University in 1969, Lee Kangso joined the Korean Avant Garde Association (AG) in 1971. In 1973, Lee moved to his hometown Daegu and organized the Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Artists at the Daegu Department Store Gallery. In March 1974, twelve artists, including Lee Kangso and his fellow local artists, held the Korean Experimental Artists Exhibition, which was followed by the first Daegu Contemporary Art Festival, the first large-scale regional exhibition on experimental art in South Korea, held in October. In February 1975, they formed the group 35/128 (meaning the longitude and latitude of Daegu) as a parent organization to continuously host the Daegu Contemporary Art Festival and held its inaugural exhibition. The Daegu Contemporary Art Festival, which was held five times until 1979, influenced the subsequent emergence of regional avant-garde art festivals like the Busan Contemporary Art Festival, the Gwangju Contemporary Art Festival, and the Jeonbuk Contemporary Art Festival. According to Lee Kangso’s recollection, avant-garde artists of Daegu at the time set their priority to “helping each other understand art and identify with cooperating so that the art form of world communication could be materialized in a short time.”
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