Performance and book by Douglas Park with the participation of Lee Mirae, Young June Lee curated by the Kim Kim Gallery, Komplot and Damien Airault Douglas Park is a London based writer, poet, raconteur whose art practice deals with indexing, fragmentation and cultural mimetic transmission. One of his areas of research is the examination of marginalized elements of contemporary art history through the prism of the "accident". This is the starting point for this exhibition and it takes the form of both a prototypical model for cultural remapping and a hypothetical historical flux density measuring device. ‘By accident’ is the second occurrence of ‘By Accident’ that was conceived by Komplot for Le Commissariat in 2009 in Paris. To facilitate his research, Komplot had invited a group of artists to respond to a privately circulated underground text in which Park created a lexical analysis of accidents that have occurred in contemporary art history (be they personal setbacks; interpersonal, political, legal, media and public adversity and backlash; grievances and disputes; resource and facility shortages; technical hitches; conservation, storage and transit issues; changes of mind etc).Matthew Burbidge had created a free-wheeling film portrait of Douglas Park, resulting in an over-the-top fast and dangerous ride careening out of control through the landscape of post war contemporary avant-garde. David Evrard, working in tandem with graphic designer David Garchey, acted as iconographer by illustrating the text of Douglas Park. Film-maker & poet Jean-Philippe Convert was the interpreter in French, frantically re-writing the unorthodox stories created by Douglas Park to enable their smooth passage from London to Paris. For Seoul, Douglas Park publishes a new version of the text. Without detracting from anything, consideration, definition and selection policy struggled with overlap and similarity with other (equally relevant) tendencies and instances not brought about or operating in the same way. These include: usage of other’s work; “challenges” (attempting to influence other’s decisions); works engaged with important and serious episodes, phases and circumstances in the artist’s own life; the reappearance of imagery from and of other works; retrospectives, surveys and monographs as work; archival and preparatory / working material as work; involvement of other’s input in production; solicited and curated contributions submitted to works and projects akin to collections, archives, publications, programs and exhibitions. |
| @ Gagarin + Onground (서울 종로구 창성동 122-11) |
| 2013 년은 더글라스 파크의 미술계 데뷰 20년이 되는 해이당. 이를 기념해 런던에서 동료인 Rut Blees Luxemburg 와 Keef Winter가 그 동안 발표된 더글라스 파크의 수많은 글 중에서 10개를 선정하고, 더글라스 파크의 낭독을 녹음한 앨범을 킴킴 갤러리가 서울에서 제작, 런칭한당. 이와 아울러 브뤼셀의 미술공간인 Komplot가 2011년부터 연례로 출간하는 YEAR(2013)를 같이 런칭한당. YEAR는 더글라스 파크를 비롯한 85명의 작가들이 참여한 추상적이며, 주관적인 아트 신을 보여준당. 26th Oct. 2013 Seoul |
