Art works on display at the exhibition.

Art exhibition promotes Asean-Korea Innovative Culture Forum

An art exhibition promoting the Asean-Korea Innovative Culture Forum and art and cultural exchanges attracted a large number of visitors.
The exhibition was the part of the side events for the 2022 Asean-Korea Innovative Culture Forum and was organised with the cooperation of the Korean Foundation for International Cultural Exchange (KOFICE) and the Asia Culture Centre Foundation (ACCF).
Due to the Covid-19 outbreak, which started in 2020, many people are still suffering from various mutations of the virus but they are slowly heading towards the end of pandemic. In this situation, like the theme of the 2022 Asean-Korea Innovative Culture Forum, “Leap forward with cultural resilience”, the exhibition named “Ensemble” soothed the hearts of people and tried to visually reveal the positive minds of humans.
The exhibition considered what virtues the  “posthuman” should have in the post-pandemic era caused by the counterattack of nature, and participated in the efforts of those who are concerned about “new subjectivity”, in which humans can escape from human-centred thinking and harmonise with non-human objects.
When people heard the word “posthuman”, they could think of the combination of human and machine, but researchers who examined the concept did not just think of machine existence, but expanded the scope to “non-human”, which included weeds, animals, fungi, cells, viruses, discarded items in the city.
They began to pay attention to the relationship between human and non-human. This research provided a clue to the question of what virtues humanity can have as a “posthuman” during the Anthropocene period, which is the main character of the world and is leading climate change and environmental pollution.
The art works introduced in the exhibition included commissioned works for the exhibition of “Posthuman Ensemble” in 2021. The Asia Culture Center Foundation has focused on recent environmental issues through such exhibitions.
ChangChun Project’s “Random Forest”, Eun Woo Cho’s “AI, Brain Wave” & Ideal City”, Lugas Syllabus’s “Step of Life ‘In to the World’”and “Step of Life ‘The Ocean coming’” and Lao media artist Souliya Phoumivong’s “Flow” were part of the exhibition.
“Random Forest” focuses on the efforts of visitors to change their blunt or sad hearts to a happy mind in the process of reading artificial intelligence on the faces of various visitors  who randomly visit the exhibition hall. “AI, Brain Wave & Ideal City” induces positive alpha waves from visitors who use and experience EEG measurements.
These two works provided a chance for visitors to experience their work to take care of themselves with leisure for  a while.
Step of life in to the world’ and step of life the Ocean coming showed the various nonhuman beings in nature that can be found around us, and that people  can survive by coexisting with them, and that they can become a family.
“Flow” shows what human beings are losing in the flow of matter, and suggests that the way out of materialism caused by human-centred thinking is the way for human beings to survive.
The exhibition reveaed that there are various non-human beings on the earth, and suggested solidarity and coexistence with them. The destructive acts that constantly think only of humans undermine nature and sacrifice even humans.
The exhibition was curated by Rue Young Ah, the Senior Curator in the Culture Contents Marketing Team of ACCF.

By Times Reporters
(Latest Update November 1, 2022)