South Korea
GeoinArtLab
An audience participation art project that makes you look at familiar places from a new perspective. Real-time performances and experiences through AR glasses intersect, and the audience experiences the past and the present together. It artistically arranges the historicity of time in the spatiality of the city to reflect our lives in it. In.To is a part of Urban Walks’, a Goethe-Institut East Asia regional project. It is co-hosted by the SPAF and the Goethe-Institut Korea.
SynopsisLooking at the 'independence' of 2023 through the 'independence' of 1919. Taking place around Samil-daero in Seoul where the March 1st Independent Movement arose in 1919, In.To invites the audience to where it all happened. The AR glasses take the audience back in time to 1919 and allow them to become someone who belongs to that time. The audience walks through the city while playing a role as instructed by the AR glasses. They can also watch performances. Through this 'Independent Walking Together', we will be able to share various thoughts and perspectives on today's independence.
Kim JoonyoungKim Joonyoung A traditional musician exploring the connection between art and society Kim Joonyoung is a geomungo player and director who wants to tell the story of today through tradition. Based on T.S. Eliot's poem The Waste Land, he produced and performed a geomungo music theater of the same name (premiered in 2016), which was well received. In 2022 and 2023, he worked as Executive Director of smasmasma art festival. In 2016, he won Best Performance (String) Award at the KBS Gugak Awards. In 2018, he received Today's Young Artist Award from the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.
Kim Chai Lin
Writer, Art and Culture Researcher She writes and produces performances such as the mono-music theater The Creature and the play Encyclopedia in the Era of Coronavirus. Her major published works include The Lost Mirror and The Third World:The Era and History in Paintings We didn't Know.
Kim Kyungmin
Media artist Kim Kyungmin uses cutting edge technologies, including digital technologies and artificial intelligence, without losing focus on exploring the human as her main theme. She has for a long time been working as the artistic director of ‘Festival Nada’ while being committed to raising awareness of artistic collaboration involving people with disabilities.
Direction ｜ Kim Joonyoung
Creation ｜ Kim Chai Lin
Media Artist ｜ Kim Kyungmin
Production Manager ｜ Jung Sung jin
GeoinArtLAb is a project group that conducts various art experiments with the focus on the geomungo, a traditional Korean musical instrument. Creative Director Kim Joonyoung has been working with an interest in the connection between tradition and modernity, art and society, and artists and citizens. The ‘smasmasma art festival’ is the most well-known work of GeoinArtLAb that takes place around Samil-daero in Seoul. It demonstrates various ways to artistically connect past history to the present. In 2023, the project group is working with media artist Kim Kyung-min, writer Kim Chae-rin, and producer Jeong Seong-jin as the main collaborators.
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