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Negotiating Borders
The Korean Cultural Centre UK (KCCUK) announces Negotiating Borders, a new exhibition from the Real DMZ Project. Founded in 2012 by curator Sunjung Kim, the Real DMZ Project is an ongoing contemporary art project centred around research conducted on the demilitarized zone (DMZ) between South and North Korea. Engaging with this unique and complex territory, artists present new commissions and recent works across installation, sculpture and film, confronting the sensitivities, perceptions and realities of a divided Korean peninsula.
Since its establishment in 1953, the DMZ has been regarded, paradoxically, as one of the world's most heavily militarised areas. With border tensions easing, and unprecedented progress in inter-Korean relations, recent measures 鈥� including the demolishing of twenty guard posts in December 2018 鈥� can be seen as a first step towards disarmament.
Positioned within this context, the exhibition at the KCCUK is built around two conceptual pillars of time and space to link the past, present and future of the DMZ. Whilst the exhibition offers a unique insight into the complexities of the Korean peninsula, research and archival material offer alternative views of the DMZ鈥檚 surroundings, encompassing themes such as landscapes, villages, military and natural bio-environment.
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The Korean Cultural Centre UK (KCCUK) announces Negotiating Borders, a new exhibition from the Real DMZ Project. Founded in 2012 by curator Sunjung Kim, the Real DMZ Project is an ongoing contemporary art project centred around research conducted on the demilitarized zone (DMZ) between South and North Korea. Engaging with this unique and complex territory, artists present new commissions and recent works across installation, sculpture and film, confronting the sensitivities, perceptions and realities of a divided Korean peninsula.
Since its establishment in 1953, the DMZ has been regarded, paradoxically, as one of the world's most heavily militarised areas. With border tensions easing, and unprecedented progress in inter-Korean relations, recent measures 鈥� including the demolishing of twenty guard posts in December 2018 鈥� can be seen as a first step towards disarmament.
Positioned within this context, the exhibition at the KCCUK is built around two conceptual pillars of time and space to link the past, present and future of the DMZ. Whilst the exhibition offers a unique insight into the complexities of the Korean peninsula, research and archival material offer alternative views of the DMZ鈥檚 surroundings, encompassing themes such as landscapes, villages, military and natural bio-environment.
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