Lecture
My Korea, My Korean Contemporary Art
Lecture by Doryun Chong
Monday 29 January at Asia House
Doors 6.30. Lecture 6.45-7.45pm

Asia House presents a series of lectures to co-incide with the exhibition
Through the Looking Glass: Korean Contemporary Art, showing in the
gallery until 3 March 2007.

Doryun Chong, Curator of the Visual Art Department at the Walker Art
Centre in Minneapolis, will discuss the challenges of presenting Korean
contemporary art in European and American institutions. He will consider
the problems of continuity, subjectivity and ‘parallax vision’ in contemporary
Korean art, and especially in comparison with these issues in the
contemporary art of Japan and China. His previous projects include
‘Michael Joo/SuhDoho’ (Coordinator, Korean Pavilion, Venice Biennale,
2001) Phillippe Vergne and the first Huang Yong Ping retrospective (2005).

Members’ Priority Booking Period to 10 January then open to the
public. Asia House Members and concs £4, Non-members £7
Tickets available from Asia House, 63 New Cavendish Street,
London Tel: 020 7307 5454 mailto:

Picture credit: Visitors to Through the Looking Glass,
Asia House Gallery. Picture: Robert Chadwick