2086 - Together how? by Soik Jung and Kyong Park. Korean pavilion at the 2023 Venice architecture biennale 2023

02/04/2023. 18th International Architecture Exhibition. La Biennale di Venezia 2023. [VEN] Italy 20.05 > 26.11.2023
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Soik Jung and Kyong Park are appointed curators at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia 2023 representing South Korea. The project has been presented as: «2086 - Together how?/ 2086 - Together how?

The project that South Korea presents in 2023 is an idea with a great ecological and social background. The main objective is to make users aware of the change that we are experiencing due to factors such as climate change or the deterioration of urbanism.
2086 - Together how?, Model. Image courtesy of Arts Council Korea.
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The project proposed by the curators Soik Jung and Kyong Park questions what life will be like when the world population reaches its peak. A biocultural revolution is necessary to put an end to the environmental crises and the creation of three communities that achieve a more empathetic, reflective and restricted life in a new ecosphere is proposed as a solution.

The proposal begins with the creation of three different teams made up of architects and community leaders. Each one of them develops a possible regeneration of South Korea's assets by investigating the process of urbanization, modernization and westernization of the Korean world.

Each of the three projects is motivated to stop the deterioration of urbanism due to capitalist inequality and environmental crises. Climate problems are confronted based on hypothetical cases that raise awareness among the population.


2086 - Together how? Image courtesy of SoA.

“2086” begins with the research and design collaboration of three teams, each composed of architects and community leaders, at three different regeneration projects currently active in South Korea. Located in a global city, a small city, and a village, together they serve to investigate the process of urbanization, modernization, and Westernization of Korean urban and rural history. Employing real activities at real locations, the project will then take them towards 2086 by engaging in set dialectics that have been determinant factors in our biocultural evolution. They are: Centers (Urban)—Peripheries (Rural); Global (Interdependence)—Local (Self-Sufficient); Individualism (Capitalism)—Communalism (Socialism); Democracy—Autocracy; Artificial (Anthropocentrism)/Natural (Biocentrism); Spiritualism (Beliefs / Myths)—Materialism (Commodities / Consumptions).
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2086 - Together how? Image courtesy of Arts Council Korea.
2086 - Together how?, Model. Image courtesy of Arts Council Korea.
2086 - Together how?, Measure Island, 2023. Image courtesy of N H D M Architecs. 2086 - Together how?, Map. Image courtesy of WoonGi Min.
2086 - Together how? Image courtesy of Seohee Baek y Gusan City.
2086 - Together how? Image courtesy of Seohee Baek y Gusan City.
2086 - Together how? Image courtesy of Hyoeun Kim.
2086 - Together how? Image courtesy of SoA.
2086 - Together how? Image courtesy of Arts Council Korea.
2086 - Together how? Image courtesy of WoonGi Min.
2086 - Together how? Image courtesy of Nam Yun Jun.
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Curators
Artistic Directors and Curators.- Soik Jung and Kyong Park.
Assistant Commissioner and General Secretary.- Kim Yuran.
Assistant curator.- Han Dabin.
Collaborators
Artists.- Yerin Kang (Seoul National University), Hyoeun Kim (SoA), Jennifer Park (SoA), Lee Chi-hoon (SoA), Zoosun Yoon (Chungnam National University, UDTT lab.), Ahram Chae (Studio UDTT), Yehre Suh (Urban Terrains Lab), Woon Gi, Min, Nahyun Hwang (N H D M), David Eugin Moon (N H D M) and Wolsik Kim.
Visual artist.- Jaekyung Jung.
Graphic designers.- Chris Ro and Sunhee Yang
Commissioner
Arrts Council Korea.
Dates
May 20 to November 26, 2023.
Venue / Localitation
Korean Pavilion, in Giardini, Venice, Italy.

Soik Jung

Soik Jung is an architect and urban designer. She carried out projects such as Urban Mediation in 2008 and research, exhibitions, educational programs and publications. Appointed as the Director of Administration and Associate Curator of the Anyang Public Art Project 2010, Associate Curator of the Gwangju Design Biennale 2011, General Secretary of the Seoul Architecture and Urbanism Biennale 2017; Curator of "Hanoi in the Future" governance project (2008-2009), "Life A User's Manaul" exhibition (2012) at Seoul Cultural Station 284, "Architecture for All" exhibition (2020) at Seoul Museum of Art Seoul NamSeoul, “Smaller, Slower, Closer” public art project (2020-2021).

Since 2018, her interest has expanded to social work, trying to cooperate architecture, urbanism, public art with community practice. She programmed and published the Artistic Education Program on Disability "Come out, Express, By Yourself" (2019); she carried out a research project "Saeddeul Village Welfare Community Construction Manual" (2021); thesis "For all who want to 'talk': a diachronic study of AAC user perception trend and changes in demand" (2020), "A case study on the performance and perception of the exploited of urban regeneration centers" as a macro practice of social work ”(2022).

Kyong Park

Kyong Park is a professor in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego (since 2007), and was founding director of StoreFront for Art and Architecture in New York (1982-1998), International Center for Urban Ecology in Detroit (1998 -2001) and Centrala Foundation for Cities of the Future in Rotterdam (2005-2006).

He was the curator of the Gwangju Biennale (1997), artistic director and chief curator of the Anyang Public Art Project 2010 (2009-2010) in Korea. His solo exhibitions are "Kyong Park: New Silk Road" at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León in Spain (2009-10), and "Imagining New Eurasia", a sequence of three investigative art exhibitions that were commissioned and Exhibited at the Asian Cultural Center in Gwangju, South Korea (2015-18).
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