2019 Asian Film and Video Art Forum focuses on the fundamental question: what is an artist? At the same time, the forum focuses on the meaningful changes brought by artistic action and participation by non-artists, artworks produced for public purposes, and artistic activity based on collaboration or collective systems. At the heart of these changes are narcissism and the desire to share, enabled by social media, and the huge trend of the "age of image consumption," operating in collusion with the capital that dominates the online ecosystem. Amid this trend, 2019 AFVAF aims to deconstruct the meanings of our social relationships as an artist with individual artistic activities and intellectual property rights, discern the ambiguous boundaries between art and ethics, and deconstruct the meaning of completed works as objects of evaluation. This year's edition also aims to introduce the thoughts and working processes of people contemplating and recording a specific topic, rather than presenting films or videos as objects of aesthetic criticism.

Further information:
https://www.mmca.go.kr/eng/exhibitions/exhibitionsDetail.do?exhId=201910160001193