exhibitions
CITY WITHIN THE CITY
ARTSONJE CENTRE, SEOUL EXHIBITION DATES: 11 NOVEMBER 2011 - 15 JANUARY 2012
CURATOR TALKS: 11 NOVEMBER 2011 4PM
EXHIBITION opening: 11 NOVEMBER 2011 6PM
GERTRUDE CONTEMPOrARY, MELBOURNE EXHIBITION DATES: 17 AUGUST 2012- 22 SEPTEMBER 2012
Artsonje Center and Gertrude Contemporary announce their collaboration for the City Within the City exhibition to open November 11, 2011 in Seoul and August 2012 in Melbourne.
City Within the City – presented in South Korea and Australia, two of the most urbanised countries in the world – seeks to uncover and interweave fictional, composite, fabricated and re-purposed narratives where human subjectivity encounters the built environment.
With the majority of the world’s population dwelling in cities, the human body and imagination have also become increasingly contained within the commercial and industrialized zones defining today’s cities. By addressing different points of friction, misalignments and moments open to re-imagining existing circumstances, City Within the City views urban spaces as increasingly active sites for creative investigation and transgression.
Reflections on architecture, urbanism and even environmental art taken from sources as diverse as literature, cinema, or political and social theory underpin works by South Korean, Australian and international artists. This grouping of works brings to the fore points of impact between subjectivity and the built environment. City Within the City also takes into consideration the drag of history – both personal and bureaucratic – which is apparent with its theoretical relapses and developmental implosions.
City Within the City occupies these moments of collision within experiences, theories, and desires. The works presented expand perspectives on issues such as governmental driven urban growth and development and humanity’s widespread impact on the environment. However, the parallel and tangential ways adopted by City Within the City and the artists’ works it features, are the site for re-imagining the possibilities for engagement with the cities within our cities.
Artsonje Centre
144-2 Sokeuk-dong
Jongro-gu, Seoul
110-200 Republic of Korea
Tel: + 82 2 733 8945
Fax: +82 2 733 8377
http://www.artsonje.org/asc/
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Gertrude Contemporary
200 Gertrude Street Fitzroy VIC 3065 Australia
www.gertrude.org.au
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT
Amita Kirpalani, Communications Manager
amita@gertrude.org.au or (03) 9419 3406
Supported by the Australian Government through the Australia International Cultural Council, an initiative of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and through the Australia-Korea Foundation of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.