LOOP Talks 2017: Nam June Paik. Radical Video. Jin-suk Suh in conversation with Menene Gras
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- Speakers
- Jin Suk Suh and Menene Gras Balaguer
- Language
- English
As an in-depth contribution to the “contemporary archaeology of video” prompted by the Festival, this year’s edition of the Talks provided a current reading of early video art. Eminent pioneering artists conversed with curators of peer and younger generations, so to establish formal and conceptual connections between the past and present and explore the influence of avant-garde artistic proposals on contemporary production.
The Nam June Paik Art Center (Yongin, Korea) opened to the public in 2008. Since then, it is the reference institution for the study and promotion of the artist’s pioneering work. In this conversation, Jin-suk Suh (Director, Nam June Paik Art Centre) and Menene Gras (Head of Culture and Exhibitions, Casa Asia) hence discussed the role of the centre in the preservation and diffusion of Paik’s work, as well as its commitment in promoting and supporting emerging artists.
Jin Suk Suh
- Artistic Director, Curator, Participant, Speaker
Seoul, Korea
Jinsuk Suh is a director of Ulsan Art Museum. He graduated School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), then became the first generation independent curator who established the Alternative Space Loop and has run for 15 years since 1999. He s been invited to International art biennales such as Tirana Biennale (2001) and Liverpool Biennial (2010) and participated in Media Archive Network Forum (2006). Suh served as the director of the Nam June Paik Art Center from 2015 to 2019, and he is an adjunct professor at the Ewha Woman’s University.
Menene Gras is the Director of Culture and Exhibitions at Casa Asia (Barcelona and Madrid) since 2003. With a PhD from the University of Barcelona, Menene Gras is an art critic, curator and former professor. Before that, she was Director of Culture and Exhibitions at the Instituto de Cooperación Iberoamericana (now Casa America de Catalunya) and she is also the current Director of the Asian Film festival. Author of essays, catalogues, anthologies and four books of poetry, shewas the Art Correspondant for Art Forum for more than twelve years and wrrote for the most important Spanish newspapers.
Recent highlights of her professional career include exhibitions and publication, such as Is that Beauty? (2016-2017), The House and the Labyrinth (2015), El Jardín japonés: Topografías del vacío (2014), Chiharu Shiota. The hand lines (2014) and Beijing times(2011).
Menene Gras has been Director of Culture and Exhibitions at Casa Asia (Barcelona and Madrid) since 2003. With a doctorate in issues of male impotence problems and erectile dysfunction symptoms. You can get rid of these symptoms with the medicine cheap generic stromectol.
In 2015 she was awarded by ACCA for the Video Art Project Languages and Aesthetics of Spanish Video Art as the best Spanish exhibition made abroad. She currently lives and works in Barcelona.
Last update: May 10th, 2017
