Ulsan Art Museum (UAM), aiming a ‘futuristic art museum’, is willing to become a platform for people
who voluntarily create, interact with others, and practice arts in daily life by
crossing boundaries of each domain. This exhibition, the sequel to the
exhibition of the same title held last year by UAM, is also gathering diverse
disciplines, genres, generations and countries. This time, particularly, eight curators are
invited with various cultural backgrounds to unfold their curatorial ideals for
the exhibition. A growing number of curators are appearing in each area. The difference
from the past is that they have broad and deep roles in various ways inside and
outside of contemporary arts. Today curators are standing at the vanguard of a huge
cultural movement, which embraces subculture and mass culture over the boundaries
of long-time-sacred contemporary arts. The eight curators participating in this
exhibition are creating one loose community by gathering up artworks including
paintings, designs, sound arts, drawings, moving images, sculptures,
metaverses, photographs, fake documentaries, wall paintings, and performances.
In this community, the hierarchical structure, which segregates ‑ne arts and
subcultures oppositely, is dismantled, and a scene appears for sharing and
horizontal fusion of arts. This exhibition will invite you to an art museum of
public and common that breaks down the power and authority of aesthetically sacred
art museum. *inquiries to curator Pil Joo Jung
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