Exhibition of Group ST, Brochure, 1971. MMCA Art Research Center Collection, Gift of Lee Kun-Yong
Space and Time Group (ST)
* Source: Multilingual Glossary of Korean Art. Korea Arts Management Service
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A term describing the tendency of many artists in the 1980s to work in small groups, in which the application of many diverse methods, attitudes and values in mediums such as painting, sculpture and installation was common. These groups associated with neither the established modernist abstract art community or the Minjung Art community, which formed the primary two ideologically and formally opposed movements of the 1980s. Instead, artists within these small groups focused on individual approaches to production based on situational contingency, and deliberately declined to develop into larger organizations, unlike the artists of previous generations. The formalization, commercialization, and globalization of the art community ultimately resulted in the disbanding of most of the small groups during the 1990s. However, the works produced within these groups were indicative of the Korean post-modernist movement that was to come.
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Event-Logical
Lee Kun-Yong, who was a member of the avant-garde art collective Space and Time Group (ST) in the 1970s, coined the term “event-logical,” to describe the key characteristic of his performance art which he referred to as an event. It is also the name of the event exhibition held on July 3, 1976 at the Seoul Press Center. After presenting an event for the first time at the ’75 Today’s Method Exhibition held at Baekrok Gallery in Seoul on April 19, 1975, Lee Kun-Yong presented another event at the Space Grand Prize Exhibition held at the National Museum of Modern Art (now MMCA) on August 27 of the same year, calling it a “logical event.” Lee later renamed it “event-logical” and used it as a term to refer to his performance artworks. “Event-logical” was defined by Lee as a pure act that exists within the art system and serves an artistic purpose in itself and as a logical artistic act that questions the meaning of the events comprising the world. Meanwhile, the exhibition Event-Logical featured the ST artists, Kim Yongmin, Lee Kun-Yong, and Sung Neungkyung. At the time, Lee presented Five Steps, The Logic of Hands, and The Logic of Place; Sung presented For 15 Seconds, Contraction and Expansion, and Reading the Newspaper, and Kim presented Marking and Erasing, Two Stones, and Mop. The photos of the artists’ events on the existing brochure of this exhibition were taken beforehand.
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Korean Avant Garde Association (AG)
An art group formed in 1969 and active until 1975 that promoted avant-garde art. The group elevated the concept of avant-garde to the forefront of Korean contemporary art. It’s members explored and developed new style of sculpture, and sought to contribute to the development of a new Korean art culture. The group published the periodical AG, which centered on artists, sculptors, and art critics in their thirties, and through the periodical, the group introduced new oversea trends to Korea and explored the theory and concepts behind avant-garde aesthetics. The group is regarded as responsible for introducing conceptual and formal diversity to Korean contemporary art, through a transition of artistic values, the active use of new materials, and helping to foment a wider public understanding of new trends within contemporary art.
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Conceptual Art
An artistic style and philosophical approach that originated in the United States and Europe in the 1960s. Conceptual artists valued the intangible ideas and processes of the art work as being at least of equal importance to the ultimate art product. In the West, this conceptual approach became critically prominent during the 1970s. In Korea, the term refers more broadly to the work of artists who have experimented with the subversion of sculptural and aesthetic norms. Such artists were active in the Korean Avant Garde Association (AG, established in 1969) and the Space and Time group (ST, established in 1971), creating a comprehensive movement of Korean conceptual artists whose work includes installations, performances, and outdoor work.
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