EAST ASIAN VIDEO FRAMES: SEOUL – Mixrise: Plants that Evolve (in some way or other), 2013
Curator: Minna Valjakka
mixrice: Plants that Evolve (in some way or other), 2013
Our last stop of the journey: Seoul. The three-year video project which started in January 2013 has travelled through Hong Kong and Tokyo to the capital of South Korea. As in many cities in East Asia, rapid urbanization and globalization have irreversibly reshaped the urban landscape and social patterns. As the result, the notions of alienation, dislocation and inequality are widely shared among citizens and artists alike. Social change and its repercussions have continued to be one of the current themes in contemporary art in Seoul and these questions are also addressed in the five art works and documentaries to be screened in 2015.