Eunme Ahn_Known Future

Eunme Ahn_Known Future
When Future Is Not Unfamiliar, What Are We To Do Today?

Seoul Museum of Art holds the exhibition Eunme Ahn_Known Future by Eunme Ahn, an artist who has introduced the cultural identity of Korea and Asia to the world through her modern dance and performance works that go beyond the genre divisions of contemporary art. As a dancer and choreographer, Eunme Ahn has continuously produced and performed new works. She celebrates her 30th anniversary as an artist this year.

Then, is Eunme Ahn_Known Future a retrospective exhibit on the past 30 years? The answer is both affirmative and negative. This exhibition is designed to be an appreciation of the contemporary artists who have collaborated with her and the active audience who have supported her as well as a celebration for the discussion on our future and its direction.

Intended to be both retrospective as well as explorative of the future, Eunme Ahn_Known Future consists of paintings, installations, videos, sounds, stage performances and archive materials based on 30 years of creative work. Nevertheless, individual elements are only raw materials, while the real essence lies in the audience participation that conforms to the post-white-cube museum.

To put it simply, the trajectory of Eunme Ahn’s works over the past 30 years becomes a stage off the stage, and the gestures of everyone who visits the museum become the art. Eunme Ahn wishes that the education program of the art museum will not just be an annex to the exhibition but will itself become modern art and create the time and space for the delay of problematic judgment. She hopes that through active participation we can encourage each other to discuss and advance toward the future. Eunme Ahn argues that these activities represent “the process of giving dance back to people.” Is she hoping that through her functioning as a spirit or link, a cultural project that overcomes limitations of the reality will be implemented?

Seoul Museum of Art expects the audience to create a new order and disorder with Eunme Ahn and make the most of the situation for self-directed learning as they go on stage within Eunme Ahn_Known Future, an exhibition more than just an exhibition. It also aims to cast light upon the artistic world she has unfolded over the last 30 years and her intended “research on the interconnections and media of reality that possess the possibility of transforming into art.”

Chungwoo Lee, Art & Design Historian

A Series of Performaces and Lectures: This is Eunme Ahn

[Body Dance]
-Private Lesson with Eunme Ahn: Emptying the Body
-Group Lesson with Eunme Ahn Company: Shaking the Body
-Group Lesson: Tap Dance
-Dance for Everyone with Ambiguous Dance Company

[Eye Dance]
-Rehearsal for Geosigi Monologue Production
-Korea Tap Dance Jam Day
-Rehearsal for an Upcoming Performance, Fifty/Fifty
-Learning
-“Japga” with Heemoon Lee

[Mouth Dance]
-Eunme Ahn_Known Future X MIJIHAENG Open Lecture: New Times, Diverse Community
-Book Talk: This is Eunme Ahn
-The Round Table

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