EAST ASIAN VIDEO FRAMES: SEOUL / Okin Collective
Okin Collective: Operation-For Something Black and Hot (2012)
The third location: Seoul. The three-year video project which started in January 2013 has reached the final destination of its journey to explore contemporary art scenes in East Asia. Korean contemporary art often remains in the shadows of its neighboring countries, Japan and China although it has developed its own specific artistic language. The aim of five art works and documentaries to be screened in 2015 is to introduce leading Korean artists and their thought-provoking recent art works.
Okin Collective is a group of artists, named after Okin-Dong site in Jongno-Gu, which was subject to redevelopment and gradual demolition and, consequently, inspired artists’ first group project in 2009. Since its inauguration, Okin Collective has actively explored the ever-changing urban space through artistic interventions and socially engaged art at the interface between everyday life and art. The main issues that Okin Collective investigates range from the individual survival to the impact of global capitalism across the borders. In 2010, the Collective also engaged with a form of ‘guerrilla broadcasting’, the Okin Internet Radio [STUDIO+82] (http://okin.cc/radio/index.html) was launched to make the voices of their related communities to be heard.