Episode 7
Cover Image: Emo de Medeiros, Kaleta Power from the photo series Kaletas, 2016, Hahnemühle print mounted on aluminum, 160 cm x 100 cm, supported by the Institute Francais.
The people of Gwangju protest.
Image courtesy: The May 18 Memorial Foundation.
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Clashes broke out on the morning of May 18, 1980, between students and paratroopers. Photo: Jürgen Hinzpeter.
Caption and image courtesy: "Can South Korea heal Gwangju Uprising wounds?", Julian Ryall, 24 Aug. 2017, Deutsche Welle.
NB: Artalaap does not agree with the characterisation of encounters between state actors and protesting civilians as "clashes".
Poster from the inaugural Gwangju Biennale (1995) titled Beyond the Borders. It featured 92 artists from 50 countries in the main exhibition and 249 in the special exhibition.
Courtesy: artmap
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The bilingual journal of the 13th Gwangju Biennale. Click through to access.
The public program of the 13th Gwangju Biennale. Click through to access.
Stronger Than Bone, a feminism reader brought out as part of the 13th Gwangju Biennale. Click through to access.
Djamila Ribeiro, Brazil, the untold story, 2018, Everton Barreiro.
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Maya Indira Ganesh, Nishant Shah, Data Discrimination, Dystopia, and the Future of Citizenship, 2018, Haus der Kulturen der Welt.
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Outi Pieski, Beavvit II/ Rising Together II, 2020 Installation: metal, thread 250 × 250 × 250 cm, co-commissioned by the 13th Gwangju Biennale and Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm Supported by Frame Contemporary Art Fund Finland.
Image Courtesy: The 13th Gwangju Biennale.
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Korakrit Arunanondchai, Songs for Dying, 2021 Single-channel video, color, sound, painting 30:18 min Co-commissioned by the 13th Gwangju Biennale, Kunsthall Trondheim, and the Han Nefkens Foundation.
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An interview with the philosopher Catherine Malabou by the Artistic Directors of the 13th Gwangju Biennale, Natasha Ginwala & Defne Ayas.
Yuk Hui with Karen Sarkisov, The Incomputable and the Incalculable, 2021.
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Gerard Fortuné, Multitasking, 2018, acrylic on canvas, 76.2 cm × 60.96 cm, courtesy of Private Collection Galerie Monnin, Pétion-Ville.
Image Courtesy: The 13th Gwangju Biennale.
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Cecilia Bengolea, Dancehall Weather: Tryptique, 2019, video still.
Image Courtesy: Cecilia Bengolea for The 13th Gwangju Biennale.
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EightOS (Dmitry Paranyushkin and Koo Des), ∞OS Session, 2019, V-A-C Foundation, photo: Marco Franceschin.
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People's Archive of Rural India – PARI, The Grindmill Songs Project, photo: Sinchita Maji.
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References:
Okwui Enwezor, 'The Politics of Spectacle: The Gwangju Biennale and the Asian Century', Spectacle East Asia (Issue 15), Fall 2010.
Gi-Wook Shin, 'Introduction', Contentious Kwangju: The May 18th Uprising in Korea's Past and Present, eds. Gi-Wook Shin and Kyung Moon Hwang, Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2003.
'Stronger Than Bone', 13th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju Biennale Foundation and Archive Books, Berlin, 2021.
Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do With Our Brain?, trans. Sebastian Rand, Fordham University Press, 2008.
Yuk Hui, 'Cosmotechnics as Cosmopolitics', e-flux Journal #86, 2017.
Vladan Joler & Kate Crawford, 'Anatomy of an AI System: The Amazon Echo as an anatomical map of human labor, data and planetary resources', anatomyof.ai, 2018.
Mark Fisher, 'Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?', Zero Books, 2009.
Djamila Ribeiro, 'Black Feminism for a New Civilizational Framework', Sur: International Journal on Human Rights, trans. Murphy MacMahon, December 2016.
Maya Indira Ganesh, 'Between Flesh: Tech Degrees of Separation', Minds Rising, 13th Gwangju Biennale, August 2020.