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2021 SeMA NANJI RESIDENCY Open Studio OFF-SITE questions the unique spatial qualities of a residency. The question seeks a perspective that understands residency not as a physical studio space where the making happens, but as a mobile and flexible program that forms an alternative space. In the time of a pandemic, SeMA NANJI RESIDENCY introduces the works of resident artists via web or at a site that is outside the studio, instead of following the standardized format of a physical open studio.

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The archival webzine (open-station.org) that was open during 2021 has turned into a hub site, a sort of a waiting room, for OFF-SITE. When you access this hub site, there will be a virtual terminal that you would pass through and you will reach the alternate space where the nineteen resident artists have envisioned. We would like you to see the open studio and the preconditions of the institution of residency in a different light. Imagining a space online or outside the residency, which does not adhere to the existing system, is not about making an enlightening, futuristic statement about traditional studio spaces. The question is that it might be an imminent task to inquire our surroundings, spaces we inhabit, the present, and to freely imagine our past and future.

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-An excerpt from the preface in 『2021 SeMA Nanji Residency Program Catalogue』,

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Hyunjin Shin and Eunhee Lee have met three times so far. Eunhee Lee, who is a grumbler by nature, began to talk about her worries and complaints one after another, asking Shin for advice on her work. What can Shin tell her then? To rationalize in a positive light, such worries may be the common problems that contemporary artists experience. All things considering, the two decided to share the topics of their conversation during the meetings in the form of podcast. Hope you enjoy it.

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※ Below are the links to the podcast. All the contents are conducted in Korean.

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Hyunjin Shin(left) and Eunhee Lee(right) are having a conversation in the Nanji Residency studio. Image provided by SeMA Nanji Residency

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Hyunjin Shin, who was dizzy when asked by Eunhee Lee. Image provided by SeMA Nanji Residency

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CHAPTER 1. The difference between aesthetic art and fine art.

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Three Belts, 2018, group exhibition view of Complete Technology, Museum of Contemporary Art Busan, Busan. Photo by Song Sungjin. Image provided by Eunhee LEE.

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CHAPTER 2. Is it okay if my work is not a right answer?

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A few premises of walking with two legs, 2021, still cut. Image provided by Eunhee LEE.

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CHAPTER 3. Art definitely has its own functions and values. But why do I feel skeptical?

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LONGING (left), AHANDINACAP (right), 2020, exhibition view of Cost of Recovery, CR-collective, Seoul. Photo by Lee Euirock. Image provided by Eunhee LEE.

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CHAPTER 4. Something always new and exhilarating

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Stance phase, Swing phase, 2021, exhibition view of Stance phase, Swing phase, The Reference, Seoul. Photo by Lee Euirock. Image provided by Eunhee LEE.

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CHAPTER 5. Please listen to the troubles of this factory accountant!

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HOT/STUCK/DEAD, 2021, group exhibition view of What We Talk About When We See Exhibition, Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA) Bunker, Seoul. Photo by Lee Euirock. Image provided by Eunhee LEE.

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Hyunjin Shin (Researcher)
Hyunjin Shin’s fields of research are art, institutional critique, and social theories. She has been influenced by Luhmann’s social systems theory, which analyses social phenomena including art based on perception and time, as well as constructionism and evolutionary theory. Shin is currently working on a book intended to connect her research on the arts with social system theory.
https://blog.naver.com/artfirm

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Lee Eunhee(Artist)
Observing the relationship between the contemporary technological environment, individuals, and images, LEE Eunhee explores ontological problems of humans in relation to mechanisms of todays’ technology. Creating narrative videos that combines collected images and cases, the artist reflects upon the characteristics of the “screen.” Her recent work is a process of capturing and thinking about the phenomenon wherein one individual is transformed into multiple images or replaced as a part of a system inside technological industries.

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※ This content was first published in 『2021 SeMA Nanji Residency Program Catalogue』, and re-published here with the consent of SeMA Nanji Residency.