有關KIM Kang + KIM Youn Hoan

(駐場期間:七月份)

KIM Kang + KIM Youn Hoan是韓國一對藝術家夫婦組合，二十年來一直從事跨界別藝術創作，策展及研究工作。作為藝術家，他們的作品及文章於世界各地廣泛發表，包括智利、烏拉圭、阿根廷、巴西、德國、法國、愛沙尼亞、芬蘭、新加坡、印尼、日本及首爾。

作為策展人，過去他們曾策劃Gang Gin國際駐場計劃、拉丁美洲藝術行動之旅和智利行為藝術雙年展等。2004年，他們創立OASIS Project，結合藝術與佔屋行動，活化城市中的廢置空間計劃。2007年，他們於首爾一個由工業區演變成的自主藝術社群Mullae-Dong artist village 中設立工作室LAB39，研究區內藝術生態群及其面對的問題。他們亦著有一部詳盡介紹佔屋文化(Squat Culture) 及各地佔屋運動發展的著作《Art of Squat》及《Laboratory of Art and Life_Squat artistic》。

KIM Kang現為首爾Kyung Hee University講師，KIM Youn Hoan則是Seoul art space 的總監。

www.squartist.org

About the artists:

KIM Kang and KIM Youn Hoan is an artist couple who have worked professionally in multidisciplinary visual art, curator and researcher of aesthetics for more than 2 decades.

As professional artists, their work and writing has been published and exhibited in Chile, Urguay, Argentina, Brazil, Germany, France, Estonia, Finland, Singapore, Indonesia and Japan and Korea.

They were the co-director of “Gang Gin” International residency program, “Action Tour Project” in Latin America and curator of “Chile Performance Biennale”. In 2004, they co-founded “OASIS Project”. In 2007, she co-founded project space LAB39, They had been researching on art community at Mullae-dong for 3 years.

Kim Kang is also currently a Lecture Professor at the Kyung Hee University in Seoul. KIM Youn Hoan had been the head director of Seoul Art Space. They co-authored the book Art of Squat, published in Seoul. Kim Kang also wrote Laboratory of Art and Life_Squat artistic, published also in Seoul, with its Japanese version coming out in 2011.

www.squartist.org