The crossing points between inclusive art and contemporary art: a roundtable with Korean curators

In this session we will explore the ways in which Inclusive Arts meets with the contemporary art scene. Korean curators will present their curatorial projects and understandings about the intersections between inclusive art and contemporary art. Alice Fox and Hannah Macpherson will explore some of the following questions with Curators.

 How do we situate this work within contemporary art? How do we define quality in this field? Is it in the product, the process or in constructing the frameworks within which high quality work can be made? What do you think about the work and reflections you have done? What worked and what didn’t work?  How will this inform what you do next?

Presenter

Qrator, Jee Song
Artist, laumkon
Laumkon is a word of paraphasia and non-language term used by arts and culture producer Qrator in the state of Wernicke’s aphasia, originally intended to refer to ‘brushing teeth.’ It is an artist duo of arts and culture producer Qrator, who’d had a disability since a sudden stroke on October 7, 2018, and visual artist Jee Song. They observe and document the daily life experienced by the changed body that is in the process of rehabilitating paralyzed physical functions and turn them into various creations.
* Presentation title : The most everyday things

LJ Sungmin
Curator of the Culture Headquarters at Seoul Metropolitan Government
LJ SUNGMIN is a curator, researcher, and producer who has carried out projects of various scales in the art field and the public sphere. She is currently in charge of the Seoul Metropolitan Government’s Seoul Museum of Art construction project and planned the Seoul Museum of Art advance program (2020-2023). She participated in Gyeonggi Northern Village Archive (2017-2018), Seoul Photo Festival (2010, 2018), The Village Project (2016-2018), Seoul Media City Biennale (2010, 2016), Anyang Public Art Project (2013-2014), etc. did.
* Presentation title : Who is the museum open to?

Hyun Jung
Associate Professor in the Department of Sculpture at Inha University
Hyun Jung considers critical writing about the Korean art scene as a practice of learning and pursues the production of various knowledge through art criticism, writing, education, and exhibition planning. Representative works include 『Revisiting Korean Art 1990-2007』 (2022, Real Culture (co-edited), 『NFT, the World We Met for the First Time』, Sigong Art (2022, co-authored), Art Cities Of the Future: 21st Century Avant-gardes , Phadion, (2013, co-authored), and he planned exhibitions such as Sang Duchamp Lee (Museum of Contemporary Korean Literature, 2013), Underline of Time, (Hangaram Museum of Art, 2015), and Next Body, (Soma Museum of Art, 2016). 2019 Since then, he has been serving as the representative of the Itza Itza Social Cooperative (Itza Itza), a non-profit arts organization for people with developmental disabilities. <Phase Space>, run by Itza Itza, is conducting various types of experiments as an exhibition platform without boundaries between disabled and non-disabled people. “Artist He received his doctoral degree for research on “the identity of” and is currently an associate professor in the Department of Plastic Arts, College of Arts and Physical Education at Inha University.
* Presentation title : About Social Cooperative IZZAIZZA

Speaker

Alice Fox

Artist, Principal Lecturer in The School of Art and Media at the University of Brighton

Alice Fox is a Principal Lecturer in The School of Art and Media at the University of Brighton where she founded the pioneering MA Inclusive Arts Practice. She has worked for many years with participatory performance and visual arts alongside some of the world’s most socially excluded groups, in particular people with learning disabilities, elders and women.
Alice often applies her research whilst training NGOs, museum, health & education workers. Alice, alongside Hannah Macpherson, co-authored the subject defining book Inclusive Arts Practice and `research: a critical manifesto (2015 Routledge). In 2003 Alice founded the Rocket Artists’ Studios for artists with learning disabilities and their non-disabled collaborators. In recognition of her ground breaking Inclusive Arts work Alice won the Times Higher Education Award 2017 for Excellence and Innovation in the Arts.

Hannah Macpherson

Senior Research Fellow and Consultant, Universities of Sussex, Brighton and Bedfordshire

Dr Hannah Macpherson is Co-author with Alice Fox of ‘Inclusive Arts Practice and Research: a critical manifesto’ and was Principal Investigator on ‘Building resilience through collaborative community arts practice’ (funded by Research Council UK). She is now a senior research fellow and freelance consultant on a range of arts based research and development programs including the Institute of Development Studies-led Towards Brown Gold project which uses the arts to promote safe, sustainable sanitation. She has over 15 years experience of co-producing creative research with marginalised groups. Originally a geography academic and senior lecturer with expertise in participatory research, creative methods and critical theory.