JAZOO Yang & Haku Sungho

Statement

JAZOO Yang

Born in South Korea in 1979

JAZOO Yang has been participating in various collaboration artworks in Seoul, Busan, Jeju-island, Bejing, Berlin, cities in France and many other places concerning issues of solitude and reclusion residing in fast-paced major cities. She understands the individuals’ extreme sense of solitude is a practical disease resulted from highly developed social structures, and with her artistic mediums of painting, installation, live performances, she diagnoses the seriousness of its state by looking into the flotsam and jetsam of wounded humanity and abandonedly ruined sights in cities.

Haku Sungho

Born in Japan in 1985, 3rd Generation Korean/Japanese

Haku Sungho graduated from Inter Media Art department of Tokyo University of the Art, has been participating in performances with dancers, painters, and other musicians whom he is acquainted with via Korea National University Of Arts and other venues. By practicing music composition and visual art projects, he has been trying to find his proposition with others in new dimensions suggested by his ontological existence. In the process of practicing his performances in Tokyo, Yokohama, Seoul, Busan, Hongkong, London and other cities, he has perceived his identity as ‘overseas Korean’ and felt ambiguous station without firm emotional roots to his origin thus being distanced from the community and people he encounters. It is the core of his artistic career that he endeavors to achieve his ego through being constantly reminded by such distances and understanding better the situations. We met each other for the first time at a residency program in the alternative cultural space AGIT based in Busan, South Korea in 2011, and again in Seoul in the following year. Since then, we have been working collaboratively in live performances of improvisation and installations, and other works.

GlogauAIR Project

A city is an important theme in our practice, we like to make close examinations and research several cities in Europe. This will be a result of our experience in Berlin where we will have the opportunity to attend a residency and extend our practice. By observing how cities in Europe including Berlin had and continue to change due to the different types of inhabitants and visitors, we like to broaden our perspective and understand the situation of Seoul from various viewpoints. We are especially interested in the chaos that Europe is experiencing in relation to issues regarding refugees, terrorism and conservative political shifts, as well as Korea’s problems of redevelopment and political issues, and we would like to consider these things in our practice. We intend to actively research situation within South Korea which can be newly discovered in contrast to our studies on the city of Berlin and would like to conduct a comparative analysis of connoted codes of cities.

CV Summary

JAZOO Yang b. 1979, South Korea

Residencies & Grants

• 2016 Ilman Culture Foundation, Busan, South Korea
• 2014 Space CAN Beijing, 798 Art Zone, Beijing, Chaina
• 2013 Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture

Exibitions

• 2017 Increasingly Deeper Layers of The Past Gallery Boaninn, Seoul
• 2017 Unexpected wall, Solo show Busan Culture Foundation, South Korea
• 2016 CROSSING BORDERS/CROSSING BOUNDARIES, Group Show STREET ART MUSEUM, St Petersburg,Russia
• 2015 Vibration, Performance MOVING ART PROJECT, Tangyang Art Center, Xian, China
• 2014 WALL, Solo Show Space CAN, Beijing 798 Art Zone, China
• 2012 Gallery Nomads Project, Group Show Gallery Nomads,Marseille, France
• 2012 Microscope gallery, Group Show Gallery Microscope, New York
• 2012 Street Art Doping 2012 Edition Chmielna District Warsaw, Poland
• 2012 Asia Performance Art Festival, Performance Art in Nature, Busan, South Korea
• 2011 We Don’t Blame You, Solo Show Kunsthouse Bethanien, Berlin

Haku Sungho b. 1985, Japan

Residencies & Grants

• 2016 CONSTANT VALUE, Seoul
• 2014 Art District P, Busan, South Korea
• 2013 Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture
• 2011 Space AGIT, Busan, South Korea

Exhibitions

• 2016 Gwangju Media Art Festival 2016 Bitgoeul Citizen Cultural Center, Gwangju, South Korea
• 2016 Signal Exchange 2016 > hainu at Guling Street Avant-Garde Theatre, Taipei, Taiwan
• 2014 CANVAS INSTRUMENT, Performance Haikou International Art Festival, China
• 2013 Seoul International Improvisation Dance Festival Dance team(Momuro) at Arko Arts Theater, Seoul
• 2012 Independent China Stereo Hidden Agenda, Hong Kong
• 2012 Asia Performance Art Festival, Performance Art in Nature, Busan, South Korea
• 2012 Busan Biennale 2012 Busan Museum Of Art, Busan, South Korea
• 2011 Geidai Sentan 2011 BankART, Yokohama, Japan

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