Single Channel Video Project 《PAUSE, REWIND, PLAY》 | Gyeongnam Art Museum

“We invite you to your attic in the art museum” Gyeongnam Museum of Art, single-channel video project 《PAUSE, REWIND, PLAY》

– Single channel video project with artist Hye-kyung Ham

– Provide a private space in the art museum for those who endure each other’s distance and spend time in their own space

– Presented in a pop-up format that can be enjoyed by up to 4 people at a time

– From September 10 (Fri) to October 10 (Sun), it will be held in the video exhibition room of Gyeongnam Art Museum.

Gyeongnam Museum of Art (Director Jong-won Kim) will hold a single-channel video project 《PAUSE, REWIND, PLAY》 in the video exhibition room on the first floor from September 10 to October 10.

“PAUSE, REWIND, PLAY” to be held this time is a pop-up project of a single-channel video that resumes after three years. Individuals who are enduring distance from each other and spending time in their own spaces are transformed into private spaces in the museum. guide

Participating artist Hye-Kyung Ham has created random stories by collecting and coordinating everyday scenes, sounds, and texts that are easy to pass by through single-channel video media.

In particular, the inner monologue narrative in his video works, which opens up countless gaps in thought without using fancy devices, occupies a small space in the museum that has been vacant so far, making us reminisce about how we were before our daily life stopped.

《PAUSE, REWIND, PLAY》, a function mainly used in video media, is a metaphor for recognizing our familiar movements of pausing, rewinding, and playing.

‘Pause’ shifts movement from the world of action to the world of thought, and creates an environment for individuals to be more immersed in partial impressions that are easily overlooked. ‘Rewind’ refers to the joining of fragments of reality that are clearly present inside and outside the frame but not recognized, and leads each audience beyond the screen to a deeper inner world. It is ‘played’ again with a unique story of its own.

Park Seong-hwan, art  academy, said, “This project is my story that someday would have been leaked through indiscriminate editing and compression, and at the same time it flows like a fantasy, not anyone’s story.” I hope you enjoy the images of endlessly intersecting time and memories in your attic, a temporary space open to anyone through the artwork.”

Meanwhile, more details about the single-channel video project 《PAUSE, REWIND, PLAY》, which is screened 5 times a day and can be viewed by up to 4 people at a time, can be found on the Gyeongnam Museum of Art website and SNS account later.

 

Single Channel Video Project

PAUSE, REWIND, PLAY. 2021. 9. 10. – 10. 10. Gyeongnam Art Museum Video Exhibition Room

 

Introduction

We invite you to your attic in the art gallery.

Gyeongnam Museum of Art is hosting a single channel video project “PAUSE, REWIND, PLAY” from September 10 to October 10, 2021. From 2008 to 2018, the main building has been steadily introducing artists and works that experimentally study the properties of video art through the single-channel video series.

This single-channel video, which resumes after three years, is a pop-up project that invites you, who are enduring distance from each other and spending time in their own space, to a private space in the museum. Participating artist Hye-Kyung Ham has been collecting, orchestrating, and creating random stories through single-channel video media that are easy to pass by everyday scenes, sounds, and texts. The inner monologue narrative in his video works, which opens up countless gaps in thought without the use of fancy devices, occupies a small space in the museum that has been vacant so far, making us reminisce about how we were before our daily lives stopped.

The project title 《PAUSE, REWIND, PLAY》 starts from the functions mainly used in video media. The act of pausing, rewinding, and replaying is a metaphor for recognizing our familiar movements. First, ‘pause’ shifts movement from the world of action to the world of thought, and creates an environment for individuals to be more immersed in partial impressions that are easily overlooked. ‘Rewind’ refers to the joining of fragments of reality that are clearly present inside and outside the frame but cannot be sensed, and leads each audience beyond the screen to a deeper inner world. The audience encounters a mixture of coincidences by repeating pauses and rewinds in the space of the art museum, which has been paused for three years, and “plays” them again with their own unique story. In the end, «PAUSE, REWIND, PLAY» flows like a fantasy, not someone else’s story, while at the same time my story that would have flowed out someday through indiscriminate editing and compression. Here, I hope you enjoy the images of endlessly intersecting time and memories in your attic, a temporary space open to everyone.

About the author

Ham Hye-kyung (b.1983) has paid attention to the method of creating a new story with narratives and images collected from various places. The story starts from what everyone knows and reaches to a certain deep and secret heart that he had personally held. He rediscovered himself in various situations, and based on this, weaving text and narration into video, he creates another space-time that is distinct from reality. At this time, in the heterogeneous and incomplete gap created by the scene and the narration, Ham Hye-kyung creates a unique empty atmosphere and presents an open plot to the audience.

Major solo exhibitions such as 《Island of Peace》 (2020, Nam June Paik Art Center), 《Edge of Doubt》 (2019, Gallery Lux), 《I Miss You》 (2020, Bukseoul Museum of Art, Seoul), 《Under My Skin》(2016, Hite Collection) and Real DMG Project (2015, Artsonje Center). Also, (2021, The Stream), (2020, Korean Cultural Center Hong Kong), (2019, Megabox Baekseok), etc. He has shown his works at domestic and international screenings.

 

Work introduction

In this single-channel video project 《PAUSE, REWIND, PLAY》, five single channel videos produced from 2016 to 2020, <Darkness Disappears, Morning Has Broken>(2016), <My First Love>(2017), < No Fun Running Away with No Bee>(2018), <Everyone Is a Mystery>(2019), <A Small Island I Call Peace>(2020) are screened consecutively do.

Discontinuous scenes often go through the disconnected darkness to create context, and in moments when nothing is playing, text and sound delicately emerge and then disappear. Audiovisual noise, such as dark screens and harsh scene sounds, adds non-simple textures to the real space, allowing the audience to feel a subtle sense of presence and operate their own heuristics in the story unfolding in the work. In addition, the narration of different narrators appearing in each work flexibly combines the footage and found footage shot in a foreign country by the artist to speak to our hearts that are constantly swayed and flowed in our daily lives. The thoughts that take place in the personal world, such as the future, love, and work, and the questions that cannot be answered clearly, run through all the entries in this project and continue like a kind of endless trailer.

Screening Timeline

• Morning Has Broken

2016, Single Channel Video, Sound, B/W, 10′02″

• My First Love

2017, Single Channel Video, Sound, Color, 11′27″

• No Fun Running Away with No Bee

2018, Single Channel Video, Sound, Color, 12′32″

• Everyone Is a Mystery.

2019, Single Channel Video, Sound, Color, 18′08″

• A Small Island I Call Peace.

2020, Single Channel Video, Sound, Color, 13′29″. Commissioned by the Nam June Paik Art Center

 

Single Channel Video Project 《PAUSE, REWIND, PLAY》- Hyekyung Ham

Artist CV

Education

2006 Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Arts de Paris-Cergy, Student Exchange Program, Cergy-Pontoise, France

2005 Kaywon School of Art and Design, Time Art Baccalaureate Program, Gyeonggi, Korea

2004 Kaywon School of Art and Design, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Time Art, Gyeonggi, Korea

 

Solo Exhibition

2020 A Small Island I Call Peace, Nam June Paik Art Center, Gyeonggi, Korea

2019 The Edge of Mystery, Gallery LUX, Seoul, Korea

2018 Pillow Talking, Donuimun Museum Village, Seoul, Korea

2017 Voice Off, WEEKEND, Seoul, Korea

2015 My Thoughts About You, SPACEBA, Seoul, Korea

 

Selected Group Exhibition

2021 SAPY COLLECTION 26, Seoul Artists’ Platform_New&Young, Seoul, Korea

2020 Unphotographical Moment, SeMA Buk-Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea

2018 EVE, Samyuk Building, Seoul, Korea

2017 Floating Life, Gallery LUX, Seoul, Korea

2016 Under My Skin, HITE Collection, Seoul, Korea

2015 A Man From Afar & Darimi (Bügeleisen), POOL, Hamburg, Germany

2015 REAL DMZ PROJECT 2015, Art Sonje Center, Seoul, Korea

2014 Please Respond Artist in Seoul, Space O’NewWall, Seoul, Korea

2011 Up in the Air: From Yeoido to Incheon, Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea

2009 VIDEO: VIDE & O, ARKO Art Center, Seoul, Korea

 

Selected Video Screening

2021 The STREAM Screening Day 2021 #28, Theatre Sinchon, Seoul, Korea

2020 2020 Alternative Video Art Screening, iGong, Seoul, Korea

2020 Where is the slightest difference between us evaporated off?, Asian Artist Moving Image Platform, Online, Korea

2020 20th Seoul International ALT Cinema & Media Festival, wavve, Online, Korea

2020 Media Art Project 2020 II, Korean Cultural Center in Hong Kong, China

2019 11th DMZ International Documentary Film Festival, Megabox Baekseok, Gyeonggi, Korea

2018 Exhibition of Exhibition of Exhibition, Cecil Theater, Seoul, Korea

2009 ZAIM FESTA 2009, MIACA, Yokohama, Japan

2007 Videonale 11, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany

2007 IASmedia Screening 2007, Seoul Art Cinema, Seoul, Korea

 

Selected Grants and Awards

2020 2020 Random Access Project, Nam June Paik Art Center, Gyeonggi, Korea

2004 AIAS Prize of Honour 1st prize, Enschede, Netherlands

 

Residency

2012 Nomadic Residency-Iran, Teheran, Iran

 

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