2025 ARKO Art Center × ARKO Selection Collaborative Exhibition
June 27–August 3, 2025
3 Dongsung-gil
Seoul 03087
South Korea
Hours: Tuesday–Sunday 11am–7pm
Curator: Juhyun Cho (Drifting Curriculum) / Collaboration: Hung-Fei Wu (Citing Bar, Taiwan) / Participating artists: Andeath, An GaYoung, An Jungju, Chang En-Man, Kyungwoo Chun, Hylozoic/Desires (Himali Singh Soin & David Soin Tappeser), Sojung Jun, Mo Kim.
Drifting Station—An Interplanetary Polyphonic Opera of Praise and Mourning is a spell and a song that departs from the confines of modernity, seeking to unearth ways of living that were once entwined with the rest of life on Earth. This exhibition serves as the new inaugural movement of the long-term curatorial project Drifting Curriculum, which explores post-Anthropocene museology through multispecies listening, relational poetics, and ecological grief.
Bringing together human and nonhuman, organic and inorganic, material and affective beings, the exhibition proposes a new planetary narrative through the lens of “planetary poetics.” At its core are the sensorial modes of praise—a reverent attentiveness to what remains—and mourning—a somatic response to what has been lost. These are not sentimental feelings, but ethical and aesthetic strategies to respond to planetary breakdowns and ontological dislocations.
The exhibition includes speculative installations, performances, and collective rituals that engage with memory, decay, survival, and multispecies collaboration. Inspired by Anna Tsing’s The Mushroom at the End of the World, the act of praise becomes a quiet listening to the more-than-human world, while mourning becomes a political and ethical mode of remembering.
Co-developed with interdisciplinary research platform Citing Bar (Taiwan), Drifting Station extends beyond the gallery space, staging gatherings, storytelling sessions, performances, and embodied practices such as walking and deep listening. It invites visitors to drift across unstable temporalities and affective landscapes, tracing constellations of ecological, cultural, and political entanglements.
The project is part of the 2025 ARKO Selection in Arts Council Korea and will also be presented at Solid Art in Taipei as MUNUS—Immunity and Community for Contemporary Healing (July–August 2025).
For more information, please contact: arkoevent@arko.or.kr / arkoartcenter.or.kr.
