Aesthetics off Resistance

「International Symposium & Workshop」

Aesthetics off Resistance
Model Transfer of Ecological Democracy in Global Societies

Organiser : Alban Mannisi & Art Space Boan1942

Site : Artspace Boan 1942, Seoul Korea

Date: 3 events_ 7, 14 & 30th September  2017

Lectures are part of DoLuck04 Program

Doluck 04 will focus on how creators and artistic producers respond to contemporary tension and conflict.

This Symposium & Workshop proposal is mainly resulting from the recent events that have shaken the civil society and democratic institutions in South Korea in the fall of 2016.

It also stems from an approach undertaken in the research context on urban, environmental and societal issues that lead us to study and examine the manifestations settings from contemporary tension and conflict.

This event is a part of research and events previously organized: Model Transfer of Social Ecology in Asian Territory & Model Transfer of Urban Ecology in Seoul / Seoul Walks.

What leads us to propose the 3rd series of events in the context of a contemporary art gallery such as Boan 1942, is to understand the aesthetics of resistance at the heart of democratic ecologies particularly active in South Korea in 2017, but also to refer how creators such as environment/landscape/urban designer, architect, researcher & artist produce in terms of ache revelation and societal stimulation that entail the individual empowerment at the heart of our societies in transition.

 이번 전시 및 토론회 제안은 크게 2016 년 가을, 한국의 시민 사회와 민주주의 기관을 뒤흔든 최근의 사건들에서, 즉 현대의 긴장과 갈등으로부터 드러나는 징후들을 알아볼 수 있는 도시, 환경 및 사회 문제에 대한 연구 맥락에서 비롯됩니다.

이 행사는 기존의 알반 마니지,  이영범,  브라츠 크리즈닉에 의한 “아시아 지역의 사회 생태 모델 이전 (6/7쪽) 및 서울 / 서울 워크의 도시 생태 모델 이전 (8/9쪽)” 연구 및 행사의 연장으로, Boan 1942라는 현대 미술 갤러리의 맥락에서 우리가 제안하는 제 3 행사 시리즈는:

2017년 한국에서 특히 활발했던 민주적 생태학의 중심부에 자리한 저항의 미학을 이해하고, 환경/조경/도시 디자이너, 건축가, 연구원 및 예술가와 같은 창작자가 전환기에 있는 우리 사회의 중심에 놓인 개별 권한 부여를 수반하는 악의 폭로와 사회적 자극이란 측면에서 어떠한 방식으로 창작하는가를 알아보는 취지입니다.

PROGRAM

Day 1_ Resistance’ Aesthetics
 7 September_7 pm

Introduction
Boan1942 / Alban Mannisi / Young Bum Reigh / Blaž Križnik / Park Chan Cook
Lecture 1 : Sungwoo Choi (In Korean)
Lecture 2 : Park Chan Cook  (Dongdaemun Rooftop Paradise) (In Korean)
+ Drink & Discussion

Day 2_ Resistance’ Atlas
14 September_7 pm
 
Lecture 3 : Blaž Križnik  :
Mapping Local Resistance in Global Cities (in English)
+ Drink & Discussion

Day 3_ Resistance’ Network
30 September_7 pm

Lecture 4 : Alban Mannisi :
Rehab Scape_Eco-Anarchism, Southwestern Noir & Humanitarian Design  (in English)
Lecture 5 : Young Bum Reigh :
Social Justice and Civil Right for Urban Commons (In English)
+ Drink & Discussion

Day 1_ Resistance’ Aesthetics

Day 2_ Resistance’ Atlas

Blaz Kriznik : Mapping Local Resistance in Global Cities

Recent mass protests taking place each Saturday in the heart of Seoul and other cities in South Korea have revived and increased political awareness among the citizens.
At the same, another kind of civil movements have shaped South Korean cities as well as other cities around the world for more than a decade.
They are much smaller in number, more humble in their aims and focused on the politics of everyday life in the localities, where they are originate from. Nonetheless, sometimes it seems that without them there would be no mass protests.
This lecture will explore the relationship between local resistance and mass protests. It will focus on local resistance in cities, their histories, practices as well as their aesthetics.

Day 3_ Resistance’ Network

Alban Mannisi : Rehab Scape_Eco-Anarchism, Southwestern Noir & Humanitarian Design

The recent phenomena of insurrection and citizen seizure of power tend to demonstrate a reorganization of the mechanisms ordinarily erected as the maintenance of societal equilibria.
Demonstrating a return of social, spatial and environmental injustice, of the monstrous inequalities between power of wealth and popular obedience producing new forms of “real democracy”. In fact, a resurgence to radical resistance movements inspired thoughts of the anarchism of Proudhon, Kropotkin and Bookchin reappear.
Through the resources of radical eco-anarchism, the pivot point in the post-modern aesthetics in which contemporary territorial aesthetics is taking shape, we will tackle today’s humanitarian management projects that try to produce accurate justice.
Rehab Scape depict several movements among Environmental Ethics, Resistance Aesthetics & Responsible Practice

Young Bum Reigh : Social Justice and Urban commons – focused on the case of Neuljang

The issue of urban commons based on the transfer of ownership of public land to civil society lies in the center of recent debate on the right to the city.
Case of Neuljang declared as a free land by the civil society shows the social justice embedded into urban commons upon the supposed loss of urban commonalities reflecting the seemingly profound impacts of the recent wave of privatizations, enclosures, and urban policing.