Ob/Scene Festival makes scenes out of the scene.
Ob/Scene Festival is an international contemporary art festival that takes place all across Seoul in autumn every year. Ob/Scene Festival questions the role of art in today’s society. In times when the changes art once promised seem ever more distant, the festival persists to ask what it is that art can do nonetheless. Ob/Scene Festival is an arena for artists who stubbornly raise their voices undeterred by political pressure, economic logic, and aesthetic convention, thereby leading us to a new vision.
Festival 2022
Programs
-
Mårten SpångbergRiverbank Sessions - Showing Up In Such A Coat -
Mårten SpångbergI’m Hiding One Of These -
Mårten SpångbergHidden In The Dashboard -
Kim BoyongObscura -
Ho Rui AnThe Economy Enters the People -
Ho Rui AnLining·Student Bodies -
Bouchra OuizguenElephant -
Maria HassabiTOGETHER -
Kim SuhwaMetahands -
Kim JisunThe House of Sorrow -
Kim JisunOff Tours -
Toshiki OkadaNEW ILLUSION -
Lee Young JunThe Ocean the Parallel Universe -
Eric BaudelaireThere is No More Music to Write, and Other Roman Stories -
Seo Hyun-Sukless formless -
walking ahaIn Production; Lysan City, Alstroemeria, and Asua -
Mette EdvardsenNo Title & Black -
doublelucky productionsTrue You (we know how you feel) -
Zachary FormwaltAn Industry and Its Irreplaceable Medium·In Place of Capital·In Light of the Arc -
Tino Sehgal·Philippe ParrenoAnn Lee -
Wael ShawkyAl Araba Al Madfuna III -
Im Go-EunThree Circles with(in) the Whale * -
Moonlit (work in progress) * -
doublelucky productionsA scroll through ‹The Garden of Tangled Data› *
*This artwork was invited by Ob/Scene for the project ‹A Place You Long For›, and produced with support from Arts Council Korea.
Artists Talk
-
Bouchra Ouizguen2022.11.6.Sun
- 2022.11.6.Sun 14:00 Elephant (Post-Event)
- SFAC theater QUAD
- Description of Elephant
-
Maria Hassabi2022.11.6.Sun
- 2022.11.6.Sun 17:00 TOGETHER (Post-Event)
- Ilmin Museum of Art
- Description of TOGETHER
-
Toshiki Okada2022.11.12.Sat
- 2022.11.12.Sat 20:00 NEW ILLUSION (Post-Event)
- SFAC theater QUAD
- Description of NEW ILLUSION
-
Mårten Spångberg2022.11.13.Sun
- 2022.11.13.Sun 19:30 I’m Hiding One Of These (Post-Event)
- Ilmin Museum of Art
- Description of I’m Hiding One Of These
-
Zachary Formwalt2022.11.16.Wed
- 2022.11.16.Wed 17:00
- KICHE
- Description of the works
-
Mette Edvardsen2022.11.19.Sat
- 2022.11.19.Sat 15:00 No Title & Black (Post-Event)
- KIM HEE-SU Art Center Space1
- Description of No Title & Black
-
doublelucky productions2022.11.20.Sun
- 2022.11.20.Sun 18:00 True You (we know how you feel) (Post-Event)
- Art Sonje Center Art Hall
- Description of True You (we know how you feel)
-
Eric Baudelaire: Interview VideoDate to be announced later
- to be announced at webpage
- Link to Questions
- Description of There is No More Music to Write, and Other Roman Stories
-
Ho Rui An: Book Talk2022.11.4.Fri
- 2022.11.4.Fri 18:00
- The Book Society
- reservation is closed
- Description of The Economy Enters the People
- Description of Lining·Student Bodies
- Additional artist talk programs will be announced at a later date. Schedules are subjected to change.
Events
-
Korean Society of TypographyVibrating Birds and Handwritten Letter2022.11.9.Wed – 2022.11.20.SunVideo
- 12:00-19:00
- closed every Monday
- Art Sonje Center·S.A.P
- 26 min 13 sec
- Free
- Korean
Vibrating Birds and Handwritten Letter is the 16th exhibition created by the Korean Society of Typography and a newly written novel by the SF writer Kim Choyeop, as well as a typography video work of 26 minutes created by 200 designers, who designed a sentence for every 10 seconds. Yet unpublished, sentences of this work have been randomly distributed to designers and were gathered back in the form of video clips and images. We live in an era when the James Webb Space Telescope has transcended time, Vibrating Birds and Handwritten Letter deals with ‘typography’ and ‘time.’
Korean Society of Typography is an academic organization that shares the research results and experiments on typography and letters. It regularly publishes the academic journal 『Letter Seed』 and annually holds a typography exhibition in various formats.
Vibrating Birds and Handwritten Letter Website
Credit
Korean Society of Typography (214 designers)
Organized by Korean Society of Typography (Min Gu Hong, Yang Jieun) -
CiViChon 2.0Nomadic Forums for Future Communities2022.11.13.Sun – 2022.11.19.SatForum, Exhibition
- Forum 11.13.Sun 10:00-21:00
- Exhibition 11.13.Sun - 11.19.Sat 12:00-19:00
- Sewoon Hall
- Free
Nomadic Forums for Future Communities discusses the organisation of, and the dynamics constituting, the communities of the future. In Mokpo and Gunsan, CiViChon 2.0 holds community events and gamified forums with local stakeholders, including residents and activists, along with visitors and external experts, in order to share their perspectives regarding the differing relationships within these communities; these forums are followed by in-depth discussions in Seoul to review the results. The accompanying exhibition will present video documentation (footage of the preparation process and scenes from each forum, as well as interviews and local excursions) alongside the game boards used in the forums.
Forum schedule
10.15 Nomadic Forums for Future Communities: Mokpo, Self-Sufficient or Interdependent (The Mokpo Popular Music Hall)
10.29 Nomadic Forums for Future Communities: Gunsan, Place-Centered Community (Gunsan area)
10.30 Nomadic Forums for Future Communities: Gunsan, People-Centered Community (Gunsan area)
11.13 Nomadic Forums for Future Communities: Seoul. Nomadic Community
11.13 - 11.19 Exhibition, Nomadic Forums for Future Communities: Trajectories and ImaginationsCredit
Director: Kyong Park,
Curator: Soik Jung
Video Director: Jaekyung Jung
Assistant Curator: Han Dabin
Local Partner: Dongwoo Hong, Yujin Moon
Local Researcher: Yoon Zoosun(Chungnam National University), Ahram Chae(AURI)
Social Designer: Wolsik Kim
Game·Graphic Designer: Sunhee Yang(Gute Form)Sponsored by Arts Council Korea
*This project was invited by Ob/Scene for ‹A Place You Long For›, and produced with support from Arts Council Korea.
Reservation
Theater QUAD Ticket page
*‹The Economy Enters the People›, ‹Elephant›, ‹NEW ILLUSION› reservation is available at QUAD website.
Schedule
2022.10.30
2022.10.31
2022.11.1
2022.11.2
2022.11.3
2022.11.4
2022.11.5
2022.11.6
2022.11.7
2022.11.8
2022.11.9
2022.11.10
2022.11.11
2022.11.12
2022.11.13
2022.11.14
2022.11.15
2022.11.16
2022.11.17
2022.11.18
2022.11.19
2022.11.20
Venue
Contact
Archive
Video
Credit
- Artistic Director: Kim Seonghee
- Secretary-general: Cho Hwayeon
- Executive Manager: Jeong Hyemin
- Head Producer: Yong Sunmi
- Production: Yoo Byong-jin, Eugene Hannah Park, Ku Yena, Shim Eun-ji
- Communication: Kwak Seoyoung
- Ticket·Website Manager: Sohn Hyeju
- Coordination: Ko Yoonji, Kil Kyungha, Kim Seohee, Kim Hayon, Park Jinhye, Bae Yoonju, Seo Heda, Seok Kyungmok, Yang Narae, Lee Seoyeon, Lee Sunwoo, Lee Juhyeon, Cho Anna, Choi Bumkyu, Choi Soyeon, Hwang Jimin
- Translation: Kim Shinu, Kathy Kyeonghoo Lee
- Graphic Design: Sulki and Min
- Sub Design: Lee Jiheon
- Website Creation·Design: Min Guhong Manufacturing
- Documentation: Park Suhwan
- Technical Team: apparat/us
- Technical Director/Producer: Shin Jinyoung
- Technical Associate Producer: Kim Shinjae
- Technical Assistance: Han Sumin, Park Miseon
- Head of Stage: Sim Woosup
- Head of Lighting: Kong Younwha, Jeong Haein
- Head of Sound: Jang Taesoon
- Video Supervisor: Jeong Haein
- Media Installation: Manri Art Makers
- Stage: Kim Minjoong, Shin Kwanghyun, Shin Sanghoon, Oh Jaesung, Lee Kiseok
- Lighting: Gwon Hajun, Kim MinSeok, Kim Hyeon, Kim Hae Bin, Maeng Woo Young, Park Seokjin, Son Minyoung, Son JeongEun, An Young Ju, Yang HyunSeok, Wi Namho, Lee Hyeongjin, Jeong Yeonjong, Jeong Yeongu, Jeong Chelim, Han Gaeun
- Sound: Kwon Taehun, Kim Seungwang, Noh Ikhwan, Yu Seongsik, Lee Taeho
- Video: Yun Hyoyeong, Hwang Jonghyeon
- Technical Translation: Kathy Kyeonghoo Lee
- Organized by: Ob/Scene Festival
- In Cooperation with: KICHE, Korea National Contemporary Dance Company, Seoul Art Space Mullae, Seochon Space Seoro, Art Sonje Center, Esther Shipper Seoul
- Sponsored by: Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, Seoul Metropolitan Government, Ilmin Museum of Art, Japan Foundation Seoul, Goethe-Institut Korea