With this film series, I demonstrate the hidden reality of the diverse forms of textile construction while contextualising the relationship between textile-making and architecture practices alongside natural geographical forms. How does living in three countries influence you as an artist? Kimsooja has participated in international exhibitions, including the Venice Biennale (2001, 2005, 2007); Yokohama Triennial (2005); and Whitney Biennial (2002). New Yorkers consider New York as a centre of the art world, but I often find it quite provincial considering what’s going on in the whole world. Recently I noticed a lot of effort from institutions and galleries in Paris to open up more to the world. And this relationship can arise only when the engagement of the audience activates the performance by viewing it. It was a kind of a Zen moment. The installation, Lotus: Zone of Zero (2008) transforms the space into a place of meditation for the audience with Gregorian, Islamic and Tibetan chants coming together at the centre. In your works, including Bottari Truck-Migrateurs, and Deductive Object (1993), “bottari” is a recurring theme. Her work is in the exhibition “TRA Edge of Becoming” at Palazzo Fortuny in Venice (June 4th- November 27th, 2011). Kimsooja ha rappresentato la Korea alla 24° Biennale di San Paolo nel 1998 e alla 55° Biennale di Venezia nel 2013; ha partecipato a più di 30 biennali e triennali in ambito internazionale. La più recente opera sitespecific da ricordare è “To Breathe: invisible mirror” eseguita per il Centre Pompidou di Metz. I think all of these experiences influenced me in one way or another, answering my questions: my life as a long interview with myself. Rather, it became tied to notions of the body, to the condition of myself and women in general in Korean society, and also to human destiny at large. I become a neutral point and at the same time, my body functions as a hermaphroditic tool that encompasses the nature of reality and abstraction, masculine and feminine, and thus subject and object. For this piece, I considered my body as a weaving factory by understanding inhaling and exhaling as a weaving machine work, in both sound and action—humming as another fabric of breathing using only my nose without opening my mouth. This is also an extension of the concept of bottari as a womb, a tomb and a black hole, which is a concept that hasn’t been pronounced much before. Can you explain in more detail this state of mind? Installation and sound bring Kimsooja’s South Korean pavilion to life at the 55th Venice Biennale. Are the art scenes in New York, Paris and Seoul similar? Art Radar spoke to the artist about her site-specific installation for the pavilion and the vision behind her work. May 25, 2017 - kimsooja's korean pavilion at the 2013 venice art biennale is a living, breathing 'bottari'--a physical and psychological sanctuary for personal reflection. Kimsooja @ Korean Pavilion, Venice Biennale ★ ★ Review by J.D.A. Kimsooja – To Breathe: Bottari, 2013, 55 Biennale di Venezia Kimsooja – To Breathe: Bottari, 2013, 55 Biennale di Venezia Kimsooja – To Breathe: Bottari, 2013, 55 Biennale di Venezia. I’ve always been fascinated by all kinds of creative activities and full of curiosity ever since I was a little girl. 1999. Actually, for the catalogue for the Korean Pavilion, I remixed that sound and created the sound wave diagrams to juxtapose together with the light wave and mirror wave spectrum. I chose the busy metropolis [of] Tokyo to place my body in the flow of humanity, initially thinking of a walking performance. What was it like working with the curator Kim Seung-duk and Biennale director Massimiliano Gioni? I decided to continue this performance literally to meet everyone in the world, choosing to perform in eight metropolises in different continents around the world. Dec 2, 2014 - kimsooja's korean pavilion at the 2013 venice art biennale is a living, breathing 'bottari'--a physical and psychological sanctuary for personal reflection. Korean artist Kimsooja, known for her performance, video and installations based on displacement and humanity, is representing South Korea at the Venice Biennale 2013. Kimsooja’s Venice Biennale installation, ‘To Breathe: Bottari’ allows nature to permeate the walls of an interior space transforming it into a physical and psychological sanctuary. By wrapping fragments of colourful traditional clothing with a colourful bedcover, I discovered it [the fabric] could become a wrapped two-dimensional “tableau” that was transformed into a three-dimensional sculpture simply by tying one knot and holding all the contents inwardly, as if hugging them all or being pregnant. Courtesy of Kimsooja Studio. After a couple of hours of walking, wrapping people in my mind by walking and passing by, I became increasingly overwhelmed by the oceans of humanity, until I finally arrived at Shibuya area where hundreds of thousands of people were coming and going. In this immaterial and non-making approach, the visual knowledge of infinite reflection in the main space—which is constructed from purely natural light that breathes within the pavilion, finds a counterpoint in the completely dark anechoic chamber of the ‘unknown’ or ‘unseen’ that reveals human ‘ignorance’. Scopri le migliori foto stock e immagini editoriali di attualità di Kimsooja su Getty Images. Performing the world’s poetry with “Thread Routes”. Your works have involved performance, video, sound and installation. You have said in a previous interview that the state of your mind determines the moment of immobility in the performance. However, it is true that particular places and their different cultures have been deeply influential to my perception and my practice. What are the biggest challenges for Korean artists today? I can say that the Korean Pavilion was an extension of my To Breathe: A Mirror Woman (2006) installation at Crystal Palace, which was commissioned by Reina Sofia and curated by Olivia Maria Rubio. Related Topics: Korean artists, Biennales, performance art, video, Subscribe to Art Radar for more on contemporary Korean artist, Pingback: Sunday Morning Coffee [Things I’ve been meaning to read/write about] – Kate Korroch, Pingback: Kim Sooja | Interviews by Brainard Carey from Yale radio WYBC, Pingback: Kate Korroch » Blog Archive » Sunday Morning Coffee [Things I've been meaning to read/write about]. Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel. On 1 June 2013, the 55th Venice Biennale opened in Italy, featuring national pavilions from 88 countries. ha esposto con una personale al MoMA, al Cristal Palace di Reina Sofia, al Museo di Arte Contemporanea di Lione, al Guggenheim di Bilbao, al Centre Pompidou Metz. I wrote one as a painter and the other as a philosopher. [The centre] is the place where everything is absorbed without occupying space and gravity, as a zero point that has nothing but a location—open and connected to a whole different dimensionality (sic) of the universe—the centre of harmony. 2019. You have been the main subject in your performance works, but you’ve spoken previously about you being both “a subject and object, an individual and an abstraction, a specific woman and every woman.” Could you tell me in further detail what this concept means to you? Kimsooja, ‘To Breathe: Bottari’, 2013, mixed media installation, partial installation view of the Korean Pavilion, The 55th Biennale di Venezia, photography by Jaeho Chong, courtesy of Arts Council Korea and Kimsooja Studio. It was significant that Hurricane Sandy happened in New York right at the moment when the commissioner of the Korean Pavilion and I were discussing this project. I understand how much the nature of the particular architectural elements of the Korean Pavilion has raised questions for the commissioners and invited artists in the past, and I was no exception. Discovering new questions in different dimensions, I choose each medium based on what is the best possible way to present the idea behind the work and based on what I find to be the most critical and poignant way to reveal the notion that I wish to evolve, rather than focusing on a certain medium itself. Traversées / Kimsooja. If not, how do they differ? I must say, although global influences tend to blend ways of living and perceptions and make all cities feel more and more similar to each other, there are still particular ways of living, perceptions, art scenes, cultures and histories that are unique to each city. Kimsooja is currently exhibiting a site-specific installation for the world’s leading art’s festival, the 54th Venice Biennale. The light waves and the sound waves together with my humming and the inhaling and exhaling of my own breath, question the moment of life and death—while the mirrors bounce light off their surfaces—breathing in and out. Your email address will not be published. The sound performance fills the pavilion and proposes a unified experience, together with the yang energy, which enters as sunlight, and extends all the way to the yin energy of the black hole in the anechoic chamber. The way I place my body creates the nature of my body as a symbolic needle that can be seen and experienced, both as a self and an ‘other’; a barometer of each performed location as an axis of space and time. collectors, dealers, museums, galleries, funds, critics, students and Asian art enthusiasts. I had never done a performance piece in real time before, although I had done a few performative photographic pieces in the late 70s and another one in the early 80s for a series of serigraphy using the structure of my body as an axis of spatial dimension. In your video performance work “A Needle Woman” (1999-2001), you are standing meditatively still with your back facing the camera in the midst of people walking in bustling cities such as Tokyo, Cairo, New York, Delhi. Also using the different problematics of the architectural elements in the Korean Pavilion I could experiment with double sided mirror reflections using both floor and ceiling, which created infinite reflections of different bottaris of spaces and self, positioning the audience’s body in a different sense of space and time. Without a doubt, it is my honour, and it is a challenging question for me to work on this particular biennale, so I was willing to develop the best possible project for the Korean Pavilion within the given conditions. I am more interested in the process to present the concept rather than the medium itself. The darkness in light and the light in darkness are stretched to an extreme into waves of light and sound. The audience’s body may be embraced by ‘void’ and the sound of my breathing. Kimsooja, ‘Respirar – Una Mujer Espejo / To Breathe – A Mirror Woman’, 2006, mixed media installation, The Crystal Palace, Madrid, photography by José Luis Municio, commissioned by Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, courtesy of La Fabrica, Madrid and Kimsooja Studio. I realised there, standing, the meaning of my walking so far, and I had to do that ‘standing still’ performance right away. The problem is that Asian, African, or Middle Eastern countries and other minorities are not paid much attention when it comes to the writing of art history. Inaugural biennale in the city of Poitiers, France. This certainly coincided with my immaterial way of approaching the site-specific project, and we tried to preserve the original structure of the pavilion while challenging its specific qualities and problems. Kimsooja … Art Radar is the only editorially independent online news source writing about contemporary art across Asia. Photo by Yann Gachet. Dopo aver studiato pittura a Seul e Parigi si trasferì a New York. Kimsooja’s installation transformed the pavilion into a place of light, reflection and rainbows for the Biennale audience. What made you want to become an artist? Kimsooja was born in Taegu, South Korea in 1957. Kimsooja, ‘Bottari Truck – Migrateur’, 2007, production still from single channel video, silent, 10m:00s, loop, performed in Paris, commissioned by Musée D’Art Contemporain du Val-De-Marne (MAC/VAL). “Thread Routes” is my first film series made from 16mm film, and it is divided into six chapters, each of which takes place in a different cultural zone around the world. Photography by Mikäel Falke, image courtesy the Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Korea and Kimsooja studio. How did the idea for this work come about? Kimsooja, ‘To Breathe: Bottari’, 2013, mixed media installation, partial installation view of the Korean Pavilion, the 55th Venice Biennale. Could you tell me how this piece came about? Kimsooja, ‘Lotus: Zone of Zero’, 2008, Rotunda at Galerie Ravenstein, Brussels, 2016 lotus lanterns, Tibetan, Gregorian, and Islamic chants, steel structure and cables. Kimsooja (Taegu, 1957) è un'artista sudcoreana.. Biografia. Being invited to represent my own country’s national pavilion is the most exceptional recognition I can achieve as an artist who has considered herself in self-exile for a long time. Photo by Luca Campigotto, Courtesy of Kimsooja Studio. Jun 16, 2013 - kimsooja's korean pavilion at the 2013 venice art biennale is a living, breathing 'bottari'--a physical and psychological sanctuary for personal reflection. Instead, I began to wrap existing used clothing as they were, in order to incorporate elements of reality. Three Channels sound installation with jukebox, mixed sound from Tibetan monk chant, Gregorian chant, and Islamic chant. Courtesy of Kimsooja Studio. Photo by Mattias Givell. When I was commissioned by CCA Kitakyushu in 1999, I wished to do a performance piece anonymously, and document it on video. Kimsooja, ‘Thread Routes – Chapter 1’, 2010, stills from 16mm film transferred to HD format, 26m:51s sound, courtesy of Kukje Gallery, Seoul and Kimsooja Studio. Kimsooja, ‘Thread Routes – Chapter 1’, 2010, stills from 16mm film transferred to HD format, 26m:51s, sound, courtesy of Kukje Gallery, Seoul and Kimsooja Studio. Seoul has passionate audiences who are anxious to catch up with what’s going on in the world. Learn how your comment data is processed. Could you describe your works at the Biennale? I consider this approach as a ‘visual poem’ and a ‘visual anthropology’ in juxtaposing and presenting structural similarities in performative elements of textile culture with the structures in nature, architecture, agriculture and gender relationships in different cultures. Jan 22, 2017 - Kimsooja’s Venice Biennale installation, ‘To Breathe: Bottari’ allows nature to permeate the walls of an interior space transforming it into a physical and psychological sanctuary. Encounter Installation. They also illustrate the similarities and differences in this gender oriented activity in different performative weaving, spinning and sewing cultures. 1998. The curator Seung-duk Kim understood and discussed with me the possibility of creating an architectural project in an immaterial way, knowing that I have developed similar projects in the past. For me, this title seems to share a real affinity with my thoughts on the notion of bottari as a whole and totality, and Gioni’s reference immediately connects with a certain common knowledge that is in line with the evolution of my practice. Kimsooja, ‘Deductive Object’, 1996, used bedcovers and used clothes, dimensions variable, installation at Akira Ikeda Gallery, Taura, Japan. There was also a statement by [musician] John Cage [which] I saw in 1984 at the Paris Biennale that was a turning point in my art making: “Whether or not you try to make it, the sound is heard.” From that moment, when I was 26 years old, I started thinking of ‘Non-Making’ in ‘Making Art’. For example, I have been evolving and deepening notions of ‘sewing’ and ‘wrapping’ in a broad range of different media for many years. Le Confort Moderne, as part of Traversées\Kimsooja, Poitiers, France. In the video for PBS Art21, you spoke about “finding transcendental moment and space” in your works in relation to the installation To Breathe at the Crystal Palace in Madrid. Kimsooja represented Korea for the South Korean pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013. This light and shadow reflects onto the white walls and simultaneously bounces endlessly back and forth from the mirrored skin of the ceiling and the floor, folding and unfolding into infinity. I had to stop right at that moment and in that place, screaming inwardly. Jun 8, 2013 - kimsooja's korean pavilion at the 2013 venice art biennale is a living, breathing 'bottari'--a physical and psychological sanctuary for personal reflection. Arte, Architettura, Cinema, Danza, Musica, Teatro, Archivio Storico delle Arti Contemporanee, College, etc etc... La Biennale di Venezia nasce nel 1895 ed è considerata tra le istituzioni culturali più note e prestigiose al mondo. At the same time, this special moment gave me an insight into the Korean pavilion project by encouraging me to construct an anechoic chamber to explore a state of complete darkness and soundlessness. Installation at Kimsooja: Sowing into Painting at Wanas Konst, Wanas, Sweden, Installation at Traversées\Kimsooja at the Tour Maubergeon, Poitiers, France, Installation at Traversées\Kimsooja at the Palais des ducs d'Aquitaine, Poitiers, France, Installation at Traversées\Kimsooja at the Cloître des Augustins, Poitiers, France, Installation at Traversées\Kimsooja at rue de la cathédrale, Poitiers, France, Installation at Traversées\Kimsooja at the Saint-Pierre Cathedral square, Poitiers, France, Installation at Traversées\Kimsooja at the Eglise Notre-Dame la Grande, Poitiers, France, Installation at Traversées\Kimsooja at the Chapelle Saint Louis, Poitiers, France, Installation at Zone of Nowhere at Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth, Australia, Site-specific installation for Perth Festival, Perth, Australia, Installation at Kimsooja – Gazing into Sphere at Axel Vervoordt, Wijnegem, Belgium, Site-specific installation at Kimsooja – Gazing into Sphere at Axel Vervoordt, Wijnegem, Belgium, Installation at Kimsooja, Weaving the World at Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein, Installation at Asia Corridor Contemporary Art Exhibition, Nijo Castle, Kyoto, Japan, Performative Site Specific Installation at Intuition, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Itally, Installation at Documenta 14, Fridericianum, Kassel, Site Specific Installation at Art Basel | Hong Kong, Installation at Kimsooja: Geometry of Breath, Kewenig Gallery, Berlin, Germany, Installation at Kimsooja: To Breathe - Zone of Zero, CAC Málaga, Spain, Installation at Urgent Conversations: Athens - Antwerp, EMST, Athens, Installation at Kimsooja, Weaving the World, CC Strombeek, Belgium, Installation at Gangoji Temple, Commissioned by Culture City of East Asia, 2016, Nara Japan, Installation at MMCA Hyundai Motors Series 2016: KIMSOOJA - 마음의 기하학 / Archive of Mind, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, Installation at 20 Bienal De Arte Paiz, Guatemala, Installation at Kimsooja: To Breathe, Centre Pompidou - Metz, France, Installation at Kimsooja: Thread Routes, The Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain, Installation at Kimsooja, To Breathe: Obengsaek,Gallery Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland, 2014 - 2015, Installation at Kewenig Galerie, Palma, Majorca, Site specific installation in private collection, New York, 2014, Installation at Busan Biennial, Busan Museum of Art, 2014, A Needle Woman: Galaxy was a Memory, Earth is a Souvenir, Installation at Intimate Cosmologies: The Aesthetics of Scale in an Age of Nanotechnology, Cornell University, New York, Solo Exhibition at The Korean Pavilion, Venice, Site specific installation at Mariposa Land Port of Entry, Arizona, USA, Installation at The Lift, the Bloomberg Building, New York, Instillation for the Contemporary Art Trail 2012 Aix-en-Provence, France, Installation at Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland, To Breathe - Invisible Needle / Invisible Mirror& A Needle Woman 2005, Permanent installation atThe Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, Courtesy of The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.Photo by Kimsooja, Courtesy Kimsooja Studio and Kewenig Galerie, Berlin.Photo by Simon Vogel, Berlin/ Cologne, Installation at Daegu Art Museum, South KoreaSite specific installation curated by Daegu Art Museum, Courtesy of Daegu Art Museum, Photo by Park Myungrae, Site specific 8 Bottari installation at Palazzo Fortuni, Venice, Courtesy Axel Vervoordt Foundation and Raffaella Cortese Gallery, Milan.Photo by Jean-Pierre Gabriel, Four channel video projection, sound, 10:25 min loopSite specific installation at Sullivan Galleries, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Courtesy of the Sullivan Galleries, School of the Art Institute of Chicago.Photo by James Prinz, Installation at Plateau, Samsung Museum, Seoul, Courtesy of Plateau, Samsung Museum, Seoul, Installation at Kunstmuseum Bochum, Germany, Courtesy Kimsooja Studio and Kewenig Galerie, Berlin.Photo by Uwe Engels, diffraction grating film on window, 5 windows133.8 x 83 cm each, sound, single channel mixed media sound installation (one jukebox, Three Chants mixed with Tibetan, Gregorian, and Islamic), 9:50 loop, Installation view at Nuclear Power Plant Art Project - Yeonggwang, Korea, Installation at Poznan Biennial in Hitler's former office at Zamek, Poznan, Video projection at Johanniterkirche Feldkirch, presented by Kunstmuseum Lichtenstein, Commissioned by Nuit Blanche Paris 2009Photos by Thierry Depagne, Installation at Continua Gallery, Le Moulin, Installation at La Calmeleterie, Nazelles Negron, France, Installation at Galerie Ravenstein, Brussels, Installation at Continua Gallery, Beijing, Installation at Lofoten International Art Festival, Video installation at Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, Musée d'art contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Paris, Installation image Doris McCarthy Gallery, Toronto, Respirar - Una Mujer Espejo / To Breathe - A Mirror Woman, Palacio de Cristal, Parque del Retiro, Madrid, Photo by José Luis Municio and Jaeho Chong, 3 wheel, 1 ton truck from Germany, bottaris, bungee cords, Installation view Kewenig Gallery, Cologne, Installation at Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, Installation at Raffaella Cortese Gallery, Installation at Centre D'art Contemporain, Basse-Normandie, France, 307 lotus lanterns, 6 speakers, sound from Tibetan, Gregorian, and Islamic Chant, Photo courtesy Le Consortium, Dijion and Kimsooja Studio. Kimsooja rappresenta la Repubblica di Corea alla Biennale di Venezia col progetto To Breathe: Bottari. I am hopeful as there are at least a few historians and curators who are aware of these problems and have broader and deeper perspectives on it. Is there a medium that you believe best expresses your ideas or you would like to explore further? The support of poignant and consistent art criticism will create a solid grounding of Korean contemporary Art history and make a mark in the history of contemporary art at large. Art Radar conducts original research and scans global news sources to bring you the taste-changing, news-making and up-and-coming in Asian contemporary art. The artist’s view as an omnipresent gazing point enables these multiple roles to be present at one time. I am sure I’ve also been influenced by many pieces I’ve seen whether they were good or bad, witnessing the human condition in this violent and ephemeral world that we live in. 1998. Photography by Thierry Depagne, image courtesy Kimsooja Studio. There should be more serious and professional attention to it, as well as to the older generation and mid career artists. What drew you to this type of work? It was interesting to be presented in the biennale for Massimiliano Gioni’s title “Il Palazzo Enciclopedico” [The Encyclopedic Palace]. Kimsooja is currently exhibiting a site-specific installation for the world’s leading art’s festival, the 54th Venice Biennale. Winslow | 12 Jul 2013. I’ve been experimenting with different media as, initially, they were exactly what inspired me in the revelation of my notion of tableau. The audience’s body resides within mine as a whole, wrapping and unwrapping, communicating with each other. The grandness and the beauty of this palace enabled me to create the void, without installing any objects in it, by pushing the void of the palace all the way to the skin of the building, emptying it and reflecting the structure as a whole using the same translucent film on the glass of the windows, and creating a bottari of sound and light, filled with my breathing voices. When I was eleven, our homeroom teacher asked us to write down two possible occupations that we wished to pursue in the future. Kimsooja nacque a Taegu, in Corea del Sud, nel 1957. There was a moment in high school when I had to choose a major before entering college. Solo Exhibition at The Korean Pavilion, Venice, 2013. Are there any new projects you are working on or planning? The whole process of my practice has always been a journey of searching for a self awareness. 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