New Town Ghost, 2005
Minouk Lim
Production Still from New Town Ghost, 2005
Single-channel video with sound
10’ 59”
Courtesy of the artist and PKM Gallery | Bartleby Bickle & Meursault, Seoul
Overview
Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (UAE) March 6, 2012 – Sharjah Art Foundation presents What should I do to live in your life? a group exhibition introducing work by seven artists, all strangers to Sharjah and exhibiting in the UAE for the first time, into the historic building of Bait Al Serkal, a space that was originally a family home. As the title of this exhibition, this question, to be posed reciprocally, opens the doors to this home and invites the artists to reflect on mutual understanding as a creative activity produced when there’s an engagement with unfamiliarity and transformation in exchanges with others and within our own mechanisms of adaptation. This exhibition features video documentations, projections and installations by Seoul and Hong Kong-based artists: Lee Kit, Minouk Lim, João Vasco Paiva, Parttime Suite (Miyeon Lee, Byungjae Lee and Jaeyoung Park) and Yuk King Tan.
The title What should I do to live in your life? is taken from a statement by Minouk Lim about the thoughts that occurred to her while making S.O.S. Adoptive Dissensus. This video included in this exhibition portrays footage of a large-scale performance that Lim created, reflects the idea of mutual understanding and unfamiliarity, and proposes that exhibitions and the work they entail should be experienced as environments. A premise of this exhibition is to present works throughout Bait Al Serkal to allow the audience to engage and respond to the space and work as territories. This exhibition is curated by Claudia Pestana; Research and Experimentation Projects Curator at Sharjah Art Foundation.
In this exhibition over 32 works will be presented. Collaborative group Part-time Suite will be showcasing Drop by then: Raw Cast, a work that has been adapted for the local context in Sharjah. Hong Kong based artist Yuk King Tan will be presenting The limits of visibility, a new work that completes a series of three films that also includes Scavenger and Drummer. Lee Kit will be presenting two installations by combining existing pieces of works within the space at Bait Al Serkal.
Claudia Pestana stated, 'The inspiration and premise for the exhibition is, when confronted with unfamiliarity, on what basis do we ground our ability to understand and engage with new circumstances? In this way, Bait Al Serkal functions as a home to exhibition visitors by extending an invitation to engage with the multiple contexts offered by the works of these artists.'
About the Artists & Works
Lee Kit
(b. 1978, Hong Kong SAR) lives and works in Hong Kong. Solo exhibitions of his work include Lee Kit: Henry (Have you ever been this low?), Western Front, Vancouver (2011). His work has also been included in many group shows, including The Ungovernables, the New Museum Triennial, New York (2012), Popping Up, Hong Kong Art Centre (2010), Exhibition Experiment, Experimental Exhibition, JCCAC’s Wrong Place, Hong Kong (2010), No Soul For Sale, Tate Modern, London (2010), 2009 Platform in Kimusa, Seoul; and Portrait of Self Exile,The Shop/Vitamin Creative Space, Beijing (2009).
Minouk Lim
(b. 1968, Daejeon, Republic of Korea) lives and works in Seoul. Her most recent solo exhibitions include Perspectives: Minouk Lim, at the Smithsonian Institution’s Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in Washington DC (2012), and Minouk Lim: Liquide Commune at PKM Gallery in Seoul (2011). Group shows include Melanchotopia and Morality, Act IV: Remembering Humanity, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam (2011 and 2010), City Within the City, Artsonje Center, Seoul (2011), Touched at FACT, Liverpool Biennial (2010), and Trust, Media City Seoul (2010). Lim was also the recipient of the 1st Media Art Korea Award (2010) and the Hermés Korea Foundation Art Prize (2007).
João Vasco Paiva
(b. 1979, Coimbra, Portugal) lives and works in Hong Kong. His recent solo exhibitions in Hong Kong include Forced Empathy: Anchored Monument I at Experimenta and Palimpseptic at Saamlung (both 2011), Experiments on the Notation of Shapes at Input/Output Gallery and Chirps at Fuse Residency Program, Videotage (both 2010). In 2011 Paiva participated in various group shows and conferences, including The Creators Project, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, New Media Archaeology (I and II) Videotage, Hong Kong, Nuits Sonores, Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon, and Imaginary Belongings, Museu do Oriente, Lisbon.
Part-time Suite
(est. 2009, Seoul, Republic of Korea) is a collaborative group formed by Miyeon Lee, Byungjae Lee and Jaeyoung Park. In 2009 they installed their projects Under Interior and off-off-stage in a basement and an unoccupied lot in the centre of Seoul, while their project Loop the Loop was developed on rooftops in Seoul as part of the exhibition Perspective Strikes Back at Doosan Gallery, which later travelled to L’appartment 22 in Rabat, Morocco. In 2010 the group formed Part-time Suite Sound, a four-piece rock band, and Part-time Suite Press, an independent publisher. In 2011 they were nominated for the Hermés Korea Foundation Art Prize.
Yuk King Tan
(b. 1971, Townsville, Australia) lives and works in Hong Kong. In the past decade, she has held solo exhibitions at Overflow City Gallery in Wellington, Sue Crockford Gallery in Auckland, Kunstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf, and Camden Arts Centre in London, among other places. Tan has participated in group exhibitions such as the Barcelona Video Festival (2006), the Guangzhou Triennial (2005), the São Paulo Biennial (2004), and the Baltic Triennial of International Art, Lithuania (2002).
Sharjah Art Foundation’s March Programme
March 8
What should I do to live in your life?
March 16
Ziad Antar’s exhibition and book launch Portrait of a Territory
March 17 – 19
March Meeting 2012: Working with Artists and Audiences on Residencies and Commissions.
Screening of 1395 Days Without Red an Artangel commission by Šejla Kameric and Anri Sala in collaboration with Ari Benjamin Meyers. This evening will feature Anri Sala’s version of the project.
March 18
Basma Alsharif’s exhibition Farther Than The Eye Can See
1395 Days without Red, screening of version by Šejla Kameric
March 19
Revisiting Tarab an Evening of Music by Tarek Atoui
March 25
Screening of 1395 Days without Red at Main Building Auditorium, American University of Sharjah featuring films by Šejla Kamerić and Anri Sala
Screening of 1395 Days without Red are presented in partnership with the British Council. For further information on Sharjah Art Foundation and the March programme please visit www.sharjahart.org
About Sharjah Art Foundation (SAF)
Sharjah Art Foundation brings a broad range of contemporary art and cultural programmes to the communities of Sharjah, the UAE and the region. Since 2009 SAF has built on the history of cultural collaboration and exchange that began with the first Sharjah Biennial in 1993. Working with local and international partners, we create opportunities for artists and artistic production through our core initiatives that include the Sharjah Biennial, the annual March Meeting, residencies, production grants, commissions, exhibitions, research, publications and a growing collection. Our education and public programmes focus on building recognition of the central role art can play in the life of a community by promoting public learning and a participatory approach to art. Sharjah Art Foundation is funded by the Department of Culture and Information, Government of Sharjah.
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