Asia Art Award Forum
Arthub has been invited to participate to the following program in Seoul Korea.
Host & Organization: CJ Culture Foundation, Gallery LOOP
Sponsors: SOMA Museum, Arts Council Korea
- Asia Art Award Ceremony
Date: 5 pm, April 8, 2010
Venue : SOMA Museum
- Asia Art Forum
Date: April 9 – 15, 2010
Venue: to be decided
April 9-10
- Art and Capital: Analyzing the way art and capital are interlinked after Global Capitalism Era
April 11-12
- Extended Senses: Discussion on the relation between contemporary art and changes in culture and
society in accordance with the development of digital technology
April 13-14
- Oriental Metaphor: Redefine the notion of ‘Asianess’ in the context of contemporary art
April 15
- Media Archive Network Forum: Introduce innovative vision through network of media art archives
Background
The changes in the 21st century’s socio-cultural paradigms bring about transformations in our culture and lives. The expansion of new technologies and global capitalism continues to reorganize the very roots of cultures and social relations. Not only lives and perspectives but also our institutional systems are undergoing changes calling for the need to redefine the mechanisms, territories, and functions of art. The rapid economic growth of Asian countries during the last decades in particular is restructuring even the
very foundation of the global contemporary art practices; necessitating us to shift the existing intercultural balance in a way favorable to Asia. As such, those changes have indeed provided the basis of breakthrough for Asian contemporary art. In other words, the call for new definition of mechanisms, territories, and functions of art can be narrowed down to creation of discourses on Asianess along with the vision for the 21st century art. These are of course overlapped with the matter of capital, from which today’s art is inseparable.
- AAF aims to build networks among artists, curators and thinkers.
- Advocating artistic innovation, diversification, and coalition, AAF is committed to discovering new voices and visions in art as well as
- founding grounds for new forms of communicative communities. Its concrete aims include the following:
Firstly, Asia Art Award is designed to nourish the next generation of artists. A network of 50-100 active, cutting edge critics, producers and theorists of Asia will select the recipient.
Secondly, Asia Art Forum promotes a coalition among critics, curators, journalists, gallerists, scholars and experts from various fields to create interdisciplinary discourses.
Thirdly, Alternative Art Fair is composed of experimental art organizations and artists from all over the world. Instead of pursuing financial values, aesthetic values precede in the fair in order to construct ideal market relationship between art and capital.
This project strives to introduce the art beyond the late 20th century art that is represented by art fairs and biennales.
