MINOUK LIM

Antrepo No.3

Minouk Lim was born in 1968 in South Korea, lives and works in Seoul. Lim had studied fine arts at Ewha Womans University for 3 years before she went to Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris. She mainly concentrates on diverse faces, absurd aspects of the society by identifying various strategies of visual production through collaboration with artists working with diverse media. Her work is usually a satire of reckless development and money-driven landscape of the society. She recently won the 7th Hermes Korea Art Prize (2007) and Gwangju Bank Prize at the 6th Gwangju Biennale (2006). Her recent exhibitions include, "Somewhere in Time", Artsonje Center (Seoul, 2006), "9th Women's Film Festival in Seoul", Artreon Cinema (Seoul, 2006), "Symptom of Adolescence", Rodin Gallery (Seoul, 2006), "Parallel Life", Frankfurter Kunstverein (Germany, 2005), "Where is My Friend's Home?", Kunstlerhaus (Mousonturm, Frankfurt, 2005), "This is Not a Love Letter" (! flyer project), Marronier Gallery (Seoul, 2004).

New Town Ghost

This media artwork shows a rapper who is doing slam poetry through a megaphone in a way that suggests a ghost is commanding to obey the development. And sometimes it sounds like the ghost is sighing. The rapper rides with a drummer in a truck, which goes round the triangle redevelopment area starting from Yeongdeungpo Rotary.
Appointed as one of the 'new towns' of the Seoul Metropolitan Government's New Town Project, Yeongdeungpo, where my office and studio are located, is the symbolic place where both hope for development and indifference of local residents have coexisted since the district around Yeongdeungpo Market contributed to the early industrial development in Korea.
Two different versions of “New Town Ghost” should be displayed.
Paralleling with a screen on the wall showing the version edited by myself, at a distance of 1.5 meter, a carpet should be spread on the floor. And a deep armchair, a TV monitor and a headset are needed. The TV monitor displays the other version of “New Town Ghost” edited by a TV producer and viewers can watch it by covering up their ears with the headset.
Again, paralleling with these, a long chair must be installed for viewers to see the screen including all things mentioned above.