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From East to East: Time Space Extension

04-Dec-07

From East to East: Time Space Extension

Arcadia A group exhibition with Korean and British artists: Dae Hun Kwon, Victoria Hall and Jin Kim 22 Novemeber 2007 - 12 January 2008 I-MYU Projects, 23 Charlotte Road, London EC2A 3PB Review by Beccy Kennedy Globalisation theory uses the term "time-space compression" ((Harvey, David (1990) The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell.)) to elucidate the concept of a new world without distinct nations, where borders are malleable and hours are reconfigured into seconds through the single tap of a plastic key, where won transmogrify to dollars through the single swipe of a plastic card. Each single transaction is at once plural. Each plurality is a reoccurrence of regime but not of a moment. The art works ...

Arcadia at I-MYU

19-Nov-07
23 November -- 12 January Victoria Hall / Jin Kim / Dae Hun Kwon Opening Reception 22 November 6-8pm Tuesday-Saturday 10-6pm or by appointment I-MYU Projects is pleased to present the second exhibition of emerging Korean artists at its permanent gallery space in London. Artists Jin Kim and Dae Hun Kwon will be joined by UK artist Victoria Hall in an exhibition that looks to the margins of the classical and the contemporary landscape. Titled Arcadia the works inform a continued historical reinvention of the term Arcadia by artists, writers, and musicians drawn towards the past. Specifically relating to the landscape the term Arcadia has remained, through history, one step removed from civilization, originating in Greek mythology as the birthplace of the God Pan, also ...