On Monday we met once again at the Total Museum of Contemporary Art. This is the venue for our open showcase, COMP (Crossing Of Movements Project) that will premiere next Saturday. We have had a while now to get oriented with the space, to explore Seoul, so start generating material, and to create improvised performance [...]
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May 15, 2009
Transcript. Day 11.
COMP Meeting Friday, May 15, 2009 – 2.00 pm
Present: Soonho, Kyeonghi, Fonkam, Hakima, Jeremy, Rasun, Oliver,
CJ, Akino Sauri
Absent: Xenia
Agenda: Discussing our ideas for the performance.
Location: Maxwell House
Rehearsal room,
Finally basement of dormitory building. 2.45 pm
Because it will rain tomorrow, we have decided that we will go to the Korean National Museum, rather than [...]
May 14, 2009
The Excitement Of Collaboration
Tomorrow I will tell you what we did today. But as for this evening…
Let’s just say that tonight’s artist laboratory bordered on the hideous.
We are preparing for a guerrilla performance tomorrow at Kookmin University, a kind-of demonstration for the dance and art faculties. We were given the stimulus for the mostly-improvised performance on Monday. The [...]
May 10, 2009
Weekend In The Mountains
We spent this weekend at Songnam Stars Valley.
We were told that this weekend we would be participating in an ‘improvised performance’, and we were not told much more than that.
It turns out that Songnam Stars Valley is an observatory in the mountains, about 40 minutes to the north of Seoul. The observatory is [...]
May 7, 2009
COMP Artist Lab #2
Tonight we shared our homework with the group. We were asked to prepare as short piece of movement, inspired by our research so far.
Fonkam: Beggers, lovers, workers in Cheonggyecheon
Si Jae: Enjoying the natural beauty of Seoul
Jeremy: Drunk man on subway
Kyoon Hee: The story [...]
May 6, 2009
Performance Art at Kookmin Dae
Today I accompanied Si Jae to assist in her Performance Art Class at Kookmin University (Kookmin Daehakyo).
I have never visited the mountainous northern suburbs of Seoul. The university is situated in Songbuk-Gu, a very affluent neighborhood that is reached by driving past the House with the Blue Roof Tiles, through Sam Cheong Dong (one of my favorite parts [...]
May 5, 2009
COMP – Day One
I fell out of bed. For me, the morning literally came in with a crash. I didn’t think it was very funny, but apparently it is.
Last night we had the first meeting for the Crossing Of Movement Project, which is being held as part of the Modern Dance Festival (MoDaFe) in Seoul.
It is hard not [...]
April 8, 2009
MoDaFe…
So, I get an email yesterday from the program director at The Museum of Contemporary Art, the location of my 3-month art-creation residency in Seoul which was scheduled to start halfway through May:
Dear Jeremy Neideck,
Hello this is Yunjung Kim, a program manager at Changdong Art Studio.
I’m very pleased to contact you at Changdong through Asia Pacific [...]
