Choe U-Ram [stil laif] - International Forum
Exploration of the Flipped Age and Loop in "Anima Machine"
Supervisor: Ministry of Culture
Organizers: National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts
Time: 4 June 2017, 14:00~16:00
Venue: National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts / Auditorium Room
Participant: The event will be limited to 200 participants by registration in advance
Choe U-Ram's artworks made by thousands of parts, concretely represent the artist's originality. With the characteristic charming, thrilling, and yet metaphysical, these artworks resemble a documentary, filing the light glimmering from the soul of the "Anima Machine".
Kim Sunhee, the director of Kim Tschang-Yeul Art museum, is the first international curator who identified Choe U-ram's potential, and invited him to participate the opening exhibition of Tokyo Mori Art Museum, where she was assigned to the Senior Curator. Kim consistently observes Choe's creation development, and recognizes him as "the first one of worldwide Anima Machine creation", the leader of kinetic art and it's prospect. Kim also curated Choe U-Ram's Retrospective exhibition in a large scale while she was assigned to the Director of Daegu Art Museum. Through this forum, Kim Sunhee will share her view to Choe U-Ram's artistic character, as well as the gradual importance of kinetic art in this contemporary.
Dr. Susie Lingham was the formal director of Singapore Art Museum (SAM), right now is active as an interdisciplinary and independent thinker, writer, educator, and maker in the arts. Being the specialist of synthesizing ideas relating to the nature of mind across different fields from the humanities to the sciences, her opinions to the contemporary art media is particularly profound and focusing, according to her long-term observation to the Asian and international art trend. Since April 2016 she is even more connected worldwide by being appointed the Creative Director of the Singapore Biennale. Through this forum, Dr. Susie Lingham will share her view to the "Anima Machine" being the focus of the contemporary art realm in 21st century.
By the conversation between the artist and the international expert and curator, we hope to represent a closer and more interactive vision to the wide audience to approach the diversity of the kinetic art, stimulating unlimited imaginations to students and art lovers and discover the future of combination of technology, aesthetics, mechanics and mythology.
Curator / Sunhee KIM
She has been working as a Director of Kim Tschang-Yeul Art museum, in Korea. She has worked as a Director of Daegu Art museum, in Korea. Exhibition Director of Gwangju Biennale and Chief Curator of Gwangju Art Museum in Korea, Senior Curator of Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, Director of Bund18 Creative Center in Shanghai, Director of Chinese Contemporary Art Awards (CCAA) etc.
Dr. Susie Lingham
Dr. Susie Lingham is an interdisciplinary and independent thinker, writer,educator, and maker in the arts, whose work synthesizes ideas relating to the nature of mind across different fields, from the humanities to the sciences. Her art practice integrates writing, performance, sound and image.
From 1 April 2016, Susie was formally appointed the Creative Director of the Singapore Biennale 2016, An Atlas of Mirrors, which ran from 26 October 2016 to 26 February 2017.Susie was Director of the Singapore Art Museum (SAM) from 1 August 2013 to 31 March 2016, where she worked to shape its new vision and mission as the contemporary art museum of Singapore upon its corporatization in November 2013, as well as setting the new creative and curatorial direction and acquisition strategy of SAM. During her tenure as Director, Susie oversaw the development, organization and curating of 13 exhibitions, which included Medium at Large: Shapeshifting Material and Methods in Contemporary Art (April 2014 – May 2015); Still Moving: A Triple Bill on the Image (October 2014 – 8 February 2015); After Utopia: Revisiting the Ideal in Asian Contemporary Art (May – October 2015); and 5 Stars: Art Reflects on Peace, Justice, Equality, Democracy and Progress (October 2015 to June 2016).
Prior to her appointment at SAM, Susie was Assistant Professor at the Visual & Performing Arts academic group at the National Institute of Education (NIE)/Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, from 2009 to 2013.
Conferred the Distinguished Alumni Medal 2014 by the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts for contribution to excellence in art and the development of the arts in Singapore, Susie has an MA (Honours) in Writing from the University of Western Sydney, Australia, a Postgraduate Diploma in Teaching Higher Education from NIE/Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and a Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) in Literature, Religion and Philosophy from the University of Sussex, U.K. Susie has taught at universities and art colleges in Australia, Singapore and the UK.
Artist/ Choe U-Ram
1970 born in Seoul, 1993 graduated from Chungang University, and 1999 received his master degree from Chungang University, Choe U-ram's "Anima Machine" closely links to the age we belong, yet on the other hand reconstructs a new mythology from the ancient fantasy and universal nature, creating a newborn aesthetics of kinetic art. After receiving art awards in Korea many times, Choe's artworks have become internationally well-known, gaining high attentions on important art fairs including Art Basel, Armory Show of New York, and so on, while his exhibitions also tour to main museums in Japan, UK, USA, France, Australia, and Turkey with great success.
Brilliant Ideas, the television program on Bloomberg Business channel, refers to Choe as “one of the fastest rising artists in South Korea. If you haven’t heard of him, you will. A self-taught robotics wit, U-Ram takes kinetic art, or moving sculptures, to a whole new level." Choe has received awards such as 2014 Signature Art Prize, Asia Pacific Breweries Foundation Autodesk AIR program, 2009 residency at Doosan Art Center in New York, winner of "Kim Se choong Sculpture Award Young sculptor in Korea, 2006 winner of Korean government Grand Prize of "POSCO Steel Art Award "Young Artist Today Award", Fine Arts Part. His artworks has been acquired and collected widely by main museum over the world.
Host/ CHEN Yung-Hsien
Chen, Yung-Hsien is an artist, independent curator, writer and art critic. In his art practice, he employs a combination of forms of Performance Art, Video Art and New Media Art as his direction and examines issues of senses and environment, body and society. Solo exhibitions include “The Song of Body”, “One in a Loop” and “In to/Out of the Other” and “The Recluse”. His works have been widely exhibited in numerous exhibitions, both in Taiwan and internationally. He was awarded the “Maple Leaf Award of Bronze Maple” in Canada and the “Beck’s Future Prize” for Film and Video in England.
He is an independent curator, has participated in the curatorial projects of “Random-ize Film & Video Festival”, “Night Vision at Taipei: International Video Art Exhibition”, “Animation Tropes ”, “Grooving—New wave of Taiwan Contemporary Art”, “Looking for Horse Latitude—New Media Art Exhibition”, “2008 Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition” , “2010 Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition”, “Cun—Chang Kuang-Bin’s Painting v.s New Media Art” and “Beyond the Mirage—Taiwan New Media Art”(SCOPE Miami).
His writings and papers concentrate on theories of Contemporary Art, the observation of Performance Art and the analysis of New Media Art. He has published “The Art of Taiwanese illustration”, “The Song of Body”, “In to/Out of the Other” , “Contemporary Technology and Video Art”, and “The Apocalypse of Video Art”.
Chen was born in Taiwan, he graduated from Taipei National University of the Arts with B.F.A and M.A Fine Art degrees. In 2004 he received his PhD of Arts and Communication from The University of Brighton, UK. Chen currently serves as a professor in National Taiwan University of Arts.
