April 08, 2006
NABI : Korean New Media Art
Site now in English
Art Center Nabi is now available in English. In the Performance section see the residency project 'Movable Type and Instant Spaces' on the theme of urbanity and new media. It will be exhibited at ISEA in San Jose in August.
Artist Tae-Yoon Cho and team Jangseung project is based on research of nomadic structures in urban spaces creatign temporary, stie-specific drawn from vernacular embodied through local architecture and cultural such as vendors, tents, advertisements, as a manifestation of human perception of local space.
Also check out earlier nabi project Liquid Space
The art production of the project revolves around three person collaboration, the team Jangseung. The project is founded upon rigorous planning, collective brainstorming and writing about each artist's position to the movable type architectures and instant spaces it creates. The final presentation at the ISEA 2006 container culture show is one of the example in this process. The project utilizes the container as a headquarter 'platform' to investigate temporary urban spaces in San Jose.
Structures are remodeled so to be wearable for a human to walk around in it. It is poetic and reminiscient to vaudeville shows costume. It is not a modular architecture in a sense that it repetitive programs of structure that builds up on itself. but it shares some aspect of modular architecture, each of these wearable architectures are related to each other in a semantic way. Each structure is either physically or poetically connected to the other structure, and the city. It is not like modular architecture, which creates a stand alone space, independed from the environment.
Posted by michelle at April 8, 2006 07:07 PM
