‘Invitation to a Peaceful City’ - Kelvin Kyung Kun Park
13 August 2009 18:00
Still from ‘Invitation to a Peaceful City’ by Kelvin Kyung Kun Park
The second in a series of artist’s film and video screenings at IMT in collaboration with Filmarmalade.
Kelvin Kyung Kun Park’s ‘Invitation to a Peaceful City’ poetically mediates on the various forms of cultural resistance and simple quotidian ways of making do, that a variety of displaced Korean villagers have made after being first displaced by the Japanese and then the US Air Force.
Amongst the barrage of sounds that assaults the area and with interviews with the local population, Park’s work speaks about the conflict that has arisen between those now tied into the economy of the base and others who still live under its shadow.
The screening includes an interview, specially commissioned for the DVD, with Kelvin Kyung Kun Park at his studio in Seoul with Jeff Rogers and Patrick Smith.
Still from ‘An Interview with Kelvin Kyung Kun Park’ by Gordon Shrigley
Kelvin Kyung Kun Park recently screened work at Recontres Internationales, Paris, the Seoul Independent Film Festival, Seoul, the LA Freewaves, Media Arts Festival, Los Angeles and at the B&W Gallery, California Institute of the Arts, California. He was born in South Korea and lives and works in Seoul.
Gordon Shrigley recently exhibited work at the Centre for Recent Drawing, Vine Space Gallery, Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Museum of Modern Art, Saint Etienne and at the Schloss Solitude gallery, Stuttgart. He was born in the United Kingdom and lives and works in London.
Filmarmalade is an artists run project established to publish on DVD selected artists’ films and video works, so as to encourage a wider access to the moving image and to allow a greater understanding, through specially commissioned interviews, of how each artist situates their work, in relation to the history of art and contemporary fine art practice.
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This post was written by Mark on July 6, 2009
