This catalogue accompanies a group exhibition held from 5 November to 6 December 2009 at the Hangaram Art Museum in Seoul.
U•S•B: Emerging Korean Artists in the World 2009, is a contemporary art exhibition featuring 24 artists of the Korean diaspora. Born in Korea in the 70s or 80s, the artists are now based in Europe, the Americas and across Asia. Though they work actively within the international art scene, they have had little exposure in Korea. The exhibition provides an opportunity to look into their various artistic languages, sensitivities and interests cultivated and transformed through negotiations with diverse social and political systems and cultural values.
The title of the exhibition, ‘U•S•B’ is a metaphor for connectivity and mobility of these artists who live or travel around the globalized world with its changing borders, merging cultures, new channels of communication, growing power of social networks and media, and emerging technologies. For the purpose of this exhibition and catalogue, USB literally stands for Urban nomadism, Species of singularity and Becoming gestalt.
Websites (English): http://www.2009usb.com, www.sac.or.kr/eng/Program/view.jsp?prog_id=13463
In English and Korean with brief artist biographies at the end.
Onsite
English, 
Korean
diaspora,  installation,  photography,  film,  video art,  mixed media,  sculpture,  painting,  conceptualism,  South Korea,  group exhibition
2009
208
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2
catalogue
Korean Artists in the World as Itinerating Subjects - KIM Mijin, 김미진
Depoliticized Young Korean Nomads in Global Zones: Displacement and Traveling as Rhetoric - CHUNG Yeonshim, 정연심
Making the Exterior: The Creations of Contemporaneous Artists Abroad and Their Status - YU Jinsang, 유진상
The Urban Nomadic Lifestyle Creates a New Diaspora - STELLA JW, 구정원
Still and All, Everything and Everyone is Sincere - CHE Kyongfa, 최경화
Becoming Gestalt, The World Contained in Forms - SEO Minseok, 서민석
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