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Damdadi Da ๋‹ด๋‹ค๋”” ๋‹ค

Opening 5pm, Wednesday 24 September

To encounter a place is to inhabit it, if only for a moment. Damdadi Da invites viewers to inhabit the worlds of Korean artistsโ€”some who remained in Korea, others who moved to Auckland in the late 1990s and early 2000sโ€”revealing the ways art can structure attention, movement, and presence. For New วัืำสำฦตappนูอ๘audiences, this is a chance not simply to see artworks, but to engage with the rhythms, gestures, and practices that once unfolded in relative isolation.

The exhibition foregrounds how creative life responds to distance, migration, and the negotiation of space. It offers a way to perceive the subtle ways these practices continue to resonate, tracing connections across geography, time, and experience. Here, one does not merely look at objectsโ€”one encounters forms of life, patterns of attention, and traces of engagement that persist across contexts.

Curated by Seung Yuh Oh and Steve Carr, Damdadi Da is an exploration of movement, presence, and artistic dialogueโ€”a space where worlds meet, practices endure, and perception itself becomes a part of the work.

Image Caption

Jae Hoon Leeย ์ด์žฌํ›ˆ,ย Ocean Rain Part 2 (2024),ย single channel digital video (duration 6mins 50secs),ย Computer graphics and animation by Alex Lim.ย Image courtesy of the artist.

Jae Hoon Lee, Specific Work Note:

Jae Hoon Lee explores simulated weather with a virtual geological formation rising from the ocean. This digital echo of an iceberg hints that something has gone wrong in the interaction between the cryosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere.ย Ocean Rain (Part 2)ย unfolds in a digital ocean where strange geological forms emerge. The dynamic interaction between ocean currents and rainfall simulates climatic conditions, rendered through CGI imagery.

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๋‹ด๋‹ค๋”” ๋‹ค

ํ•œ ์žฅ์†Œ๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋‚œ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€, ๋น„๋ก ์ž ์‹œ๋ผ๋„ ๊ทธ๊ณณ์„ ์‚ด์•„๋‚ด๋Š” ์ผ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ด๋‹ค๋”” ๋‹ค๋Š” ํ•œ๊ตญ ์ž‘๊ฐ€๋“ค์˜ ์„ธ๊ณ„๋กœ ๊ด€๊ฐ์„ ์ดˆ๋Œ€ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ผ๋ถ€๋Š” ํ•œ๊ตญ์— ๋‚จ์•˜๊ณ , ๋˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์ด๋“ค์€ 1990๋…„๋Œ€ ํ›„๋ฐ˜๊ณผ 2000๋…„๋Œ€ ์ดˆ๋ฐ˜ ์˜คํด๋žœ๋“œ๋กœ ์ด์ฃผํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ์ „์‹œ๋Š” ์˜ˆ์ˆ ์ด ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์ฃผ์˜๋ฅผ ๋ชจ์œผ๊ณ , ์›€์ง์ž„์„ ๋งŒ๋“ค๋ฉฐ, ์กด์žฌ๋ฅผ ๋“œ๋Ÿฌ๋‚ด๋Š”์ง€๋ฅผ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ค๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‰ด์งˆ๋žœ๋“œ์˜ ๊ด€๊ฐ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์ด๋Š” ๋‹จ์ˆœํ•œ ๊ฐ์ƒ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ, ํ•œ๋•Œ ๊ณ ๋ฆฝ ์†์—์„œ ํŽผ์ณ์กŒ๋˜ ๋ฆฌ๋“ฌ๊ณผ ๋ชธ์ง“, ์‹ค์ฒœ์„ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๊ฒฝํ—˜ํ•˜๋Š” ์ˆœ๊ฐ„์ด ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ด๋ฒˆ ์ „์‹œ๋Š” ์ฐฝ์ž‘์ด ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ์™€ ์ด์ฃผ, ๊ณต๊ฐ„์˜ ํ˜‘์ƒ์— ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์‘๋‹ตํ•˜๋Š”์ง€๋ฅผ ๋“œ๋Ÿฌ๋ƒ…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ ์ง€๋ฆฌ์™€ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ๋„˜์–ด ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ์šธ๋ ค ํผ์ง€๋Š” ์˜ˆ์ˆ ์  ์‹ค์ฒœ๋“ค์˜ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ค๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์„œ ๊ด€๊ฐ์€ ๋‹จ์ˆœํžˆ ์ž‘ํ’ˆ์„ ๋ณด๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ, ์ง€์†๋˜๋Š” ์‚ถ์˜ ํ˜•์‹๊ณผ ์ฃผ์˜์˜ ํŒจํ„ด, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ฐธ์—ฌ์˜ ํ”์ ๊ณผ ๋งˆ์ฃผํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์˜ค์Šน์—ด๊ณผ ์Šคํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ ์นด๊ฐ€ ๊ณต๋™ ๊ธฐํšํ•œ ๋‹ด๋‹ค๋”” ๋‹ค๋Š” ์›€์ง์ž„๊ณผ ์กด์žฌ, ์˜ˆ์ˆ ์  ๋Œ€ํ™”๊ฐ€ ๋งŒ๋‚˜๋Š” ์ž๋ฆฌ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์„œ๋กœ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์„ธ๊ณ„๊ฐ€ ๊ต์ฐจํ•˜๊ณ , ์‹ค์ฒœ์ด ์ด์–ด์ง€๋ฉฐ, ์ธ์‹ ์ž์ฒด๊ฐ€ ์ž‘ํ’ˆ์ด ๋˜๋Š” ๊ณต๊ฐ„์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.