In August 2016, the ´acePIRAR program received artist Jae Min Kim (South Korea). Jae currently works as an Art Director at M and as a lecturer at the Korea National University of Arts, Seoul, South Korea. He is the second artist-in-residence from Korea, being this very important for the program as it means broadening our scope in Asia as well as our knowledge about Korean culture and art.

Kim is a theatre director and media artist and he leads two theatrical troops: Spider Company and M. His works range on various genres such as SF and Korean traditional performance. In the visual art field, he looks forward to expand the practices between different artistic practices, and specially among theatre and media art as well as the way to interfere with the exhibition format.

ARTIST STATEMENT

My project’s title, Tableau Vivant, means “living picture”. It’s a media art project that combines photography and videography. It is based on the placeness, the overlapping temporalities in massive photographic images, using it as a screen and accepting it at the same time in the term of proscenium. Through video projection mapping on the image, the project gains new life.

Tableau Vivant‘s process is similar to theatrical directing; project’s placeness, mediality and theatricality can refer to the work of actors’ direction or scenography itself. It draws meditational landscape through the awareness of conscious/unconscious memories. One can place its own message in relation to the project’s purpose, arriving to another unexpected meaning.

This residency has been possible thanks to the generous support of the Wooran Foundation.