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Symposium

Apr 12, 2024

AN ENCOUNTER WITH THE KOREAN AVANT-GARDE

Co-presented with the Hammer Museum

LOCATION

Bay-Nimoy Studio, Hammer Museum

DATE

April 12, 2024

Presented in collaboration with the Hammer Museum, this academic symposium was one of the most well-attended in recent years. It featured artists and scholars on the historical, political, and cultural contexts of the exhibition Only the Young: Experimental Art in Korea, 1960s–1970s, then on view at the Hammer. Discussions focused on the lasting impacts of this decisive moment within Korea’s local and diasporic creative histories, as well as the larger influence that these art histories have had within the global art world. Presentations by art historians Joan Kee and Mina Kim, scholar Jennifer Jihye Chun, and artist Yong Joon Kwak were followed by a conversation moderated by writer and art historian Harry C. Choi. The afternoon culminated with a performance by Only the Young artist Sung Neung Kyung.