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HOW International Curatorial Residency Program

Co-sponsored by HOW Art Museum and Onehome Art Hotel (Shanghai), HOW International Curatorial Residency Program launches an open call for curators, scholars and arts writers worldwide who are interested to get deeper insight of Chinese contemporary art scene. The residency program aims to motivate residency exchange opportunities around the world and to forge durable institutional relationships in the long run. Individualized arrangements will be provided for each curator-in-residence. The arrangements include meetings with art professionals, studio visits, gallery and institution visits, and attendance at selected performances and other events. Furthermore, the curators-in-residence are invited to work in close collaboration and coordination with HOW Art Museum team, as well as to produce a website/Wechat article or essay, or to organize a public event such as a lecture.

Pil Joo Jung

Pil Joo Jung is a curator, art critic and director of A.C.S based in Seoul, South Korea. Her major curatorial projects for A.C.S include Conseptual Yeonnam, a series of events showcasing experimental art, and Curator Salon, a platform that helps curators and artists to nurture dialogue with the public, share ideas and create new contents. Pil Joo Jung is also a PhD candidate in sociology of art at the Seoul National University. Her professional interests span artists’ identity,  digitization of cultural contents, artists’ welfare and hidden work; furthermore she is involved in discourse on promotion of creators’ welfare, protection of the rights of artists and problems associated with the contemporary art market.

Pil Joo Jung was a curator of the gallery JAC affiliated with Jangahnpyeng Automotive Center in 2018 and worked as a coordinator for Counselling Center on Unfair Treatment of Artists run by Seoul Metropolitan Government from 2017 to 2019. The selected exhibitions she curated include “Condensed minds are bone-chilling-Part 1” (2019), “Words revolving in my mind”(2018), “City Drive in the Winter” (2017), “Visual quest 234” (2017) and “Dialogue Project” (2017, 2016). 

In 2018 Pil Joo Jung had a curatorial residency at HIAP (Helsinki International Artist Program) in Finland; in 2019 she joined as an expert to MAP (Month of Art Practice) in Hanoi. Pil Joo Jung is an author of the book “The Wives who Became the Shine of Prominent Painters in Korea” (2006) and regularly contributes articles to art magazines such as Weekly Kyung Hyang, Misul Segye and Monthly Artist. She runs a website dedicated to Korean contemporary art “Art in Korea” (artinkorea.org) featuring articles written in non-Korean languages.

Research topic at the HOW Museum residency period

During the residency at the HOW Art Museum, Pil Joo Jung will continue her research on the notion of artistic labour and artist identity. When artworks are displayed and viewed, to what extent a creative effort of artists and their mundane non-artistic labour have been isolated from the value-making process of an artwork itself? The work of artists and their everyday live have certain uniqueness, that is, they might be neither supervised nor employed. At the same time, the result of their labour is traded and evaluated in museums, galleries and auction houses, and artists very often are excluded from this process. This is very different from the case of office workers: when they go to a restroom or use smartphone, their personal activities are still considered as working time or tangible work.

However, given that artists are not employed, thus only when the result of their creation is traded in the market, the value of their labour is recognized. Other than that, most of the work that artists are doing is hidden and invisible.

Basing her research on interviews, studio visits and observations of the daily life of artists living in Shanghai, Pil Joo Jung intends to collect narratives of their artistic and non-artistic practices as well as to explore the features of artist identity in nowadays China.

About A.C.S.

A. C. S. (Art. Culture. Space) is a curatorial team working on international art exchange among artists and curators from South Korea and other countries, as well as conducting research on the artists’ welfare, social status of artists and the policies of the art market. The team runs Conceptual Yeonnam, that provides artists opportunities to show their experimental works, and Curator Salon. In April 2019  A.C.S. participated in Supermarket Art Fair, an alternative art fair in Stockholm, Sweden, where as an exhibitor introduced Korean experimental art practices. At the moment, the team is focusing on connecting artists and curators from East Asia to other countries. A.C.S. also has a YouTube channel “Art in Korea”.