Presented by Nine Dragon Heads
www.9dh-venice.com
Venue: Spazio Punch. Giudecca 800/o, Venice
Opening hours: Opening week, April 17 to April 18, 11 a.m. - 7 p.m.
April 19, 11 a.m. - 10.30 p.m.
April 20 to September 25, 11:30 a.m. - 7:30 p.m.
September 26 to November 24, 10:30 a.m - 6:30 p.m.
Closed on Monday.
Nomadic Party is an Interdisciplinary site-specific and context-related Environmental Art project originated and organised by the international art-group Nine Dragon Heads.
Artistic Director / CEO: Park Byoung-Uk
Commissioners: Kim Chan-Dong, Vittorio Urbani
Curatorial Team: Ali Bramwell, Gabriel Adams, Hannes Egger
Partners and sponsors: AsianArtWorks, Artisterium, NUOVA ICONA, Quartair Initiative, KFAI, Sarajevska Zima, KFAF, Schema Art Museum, Piramid Sanat, Bosanski Kulturni Centar, The Picnic Pavilion
Exhibiting Artists: Gabriel Adams (USA), Gordana Andjelic-Galic & Goo So-Young (BiH/ KR), Bedri Baykam (TK), Ali Bramwell (NZ), Harold de Bree (NL), Paul Donker Duyvis & Anja Zwanenburg (NL), Hannes Egger (IT), Serife Bilgili Ercantürk (TK), Goo Sung-Kyun (KR), Jusuf Hadžifejzović& Jasmin Durakovic (BiH), Geum Sa-Hong (KR), Hwang Seok-Bong (KR), Ran Hwang (KR), KFAF - Baik Moon-He, Chang Hae-Hong, Choi In-Sook (KR), Kim Kyul-Soo (KR), Kim Young-Jin (KR), Kazunori Kitazawa (JP), Kwon Ki-Ja (KR), Dana La Monda & Oona Hyland (UK/ IR), Susanne Muller & Fred Leudi (CH ), Enrique Munoz Garcia (CL), Vania Oh (KR), Denizhan Ozer (TK), Pang Hyo-Sung (KR), Alois Schild (AT), Shim Young-Churl (KR), Easy Song & Bahk Young-Hoon (KR), Antti Tenetz (FL)
Performance Artists: Gordana Andjelic-Galic & Goo So-Young (BiH/ KR), Harold de Bree (NL), Hannes Egger (IT), Goo Sung-Kyun (KR), Jusuf Hadžifejzović (BiH), Harry Heirmans (BL), Guillermo Horta & Lee Han-Joo (CU/ KR), Hwang Seok-Bong (KR), István Kovács (HU), Michela Pelusio (GR) Pang Hyo-Sung (KR)
Guest Musicians: Walter Garber aka DJ VELOZIPED, Alioune Slysajah (SN)
Preview programme
April 17
11am - 1pm: Gallery tour with artists and curator. Walk the exhibition and meet the artists with their work. With performances by Goo Sung Kyun, Vania Oh.
April 18
11am - 1pm: Gallery tour with artists and curator. Walk the exhibition and meet the artists with their work. With performances by Hannes Egger, Gordana Andjelic-Galic & Goo So Young.
April 19
1.30 PM: Performances:
Hwang Seok-Bong, Harold de Bree, Alioune Slysajah
2.00 PM Panel presentation:
Bedri Baykam “Solidarity through Art in times of blood and tempest”, Vittorio Urbani “Vision and collaboration of multinational networks”, Kim Chan-dong “The Nomadic Spirit of Korean Contemporary Art”, Lee Gyeong-mo (“Nomadism of Open air Art / Nature artists”, Noh Hyeong-seok “The formation and development process of Nomadic Artist's work flow since the 1960s”, Kim Jeong-hee “The work of itinerant artists and the anti-modernist right: Brandism and JR”
4.00 PM Opening remarks
4.30 PM Performances:
Pang Hyo Sung, Jusuf Hadžifejzović, Harry Heirmans, Istvan Kovaks, Walter Garber aka DJ VELOZIPED, More Zmin, Guillermo Horta & Lee Han-Joo, Michela Pelusio,
9.00 PM DJ set:
Walter Garber aka DJ VELOZIPED
Nomadic Party is the motivating stimulus for an alternative vision and the experimental mode of artistic activity embodied by Nine Dragon Heads. Nomadic Party in Venice reiterates a recurring structural specificity of Nine Dragon Heads – a form of open air practice that engages the Venetian Lagoon, accompanied by an exhibition of working traces and documentation, artefacts and performances in Spazio Punch on the island of Giudecca. The exhibition is dedicated to the creative possibilities that connect human and nature, art and environment.
Conceptually the exhibition Nomadic party is elaborated in on-going laboratory mode, where individual artworks bear post-studio, experimental, or situational and performative character. The experience and materials gathered through numerous symposia and activities of Nine Dragon Heads (which also include workshops, theoretical panel discussions, and conferences) both directly and indirectly, form the content of “Nomadic Party”. Participating artists do not aim to place full stops or answer all the questions, rather they look for the creation of a space where experimental open air and public art-practice results in an ethical artistic message.
Against the background of its broader practice, Nomadic Party is co-curated by Ali Bramwell, Gabriel Adams and Hannes Egger, curators who have worked closely within the self-organising ability of Nine Dragon Heads over the last 20 years. The project synthesises and facilitates joint and individual works, while threads of overlapping artistic inquiry are produced in a long process of evolving collaborative association. Nomadic Party as a truly artistic enterprise is an open-ended, research-oriented, activity that does not look for the creation of an immediate visual effect. The strength of the Nine Dragon Heads Nomadic Party is not the production of a final work but the provisional, unfinished, incomplete, and ongoing search for meaning. This parallels other philosophical attempts to find coherence within a complex situation.
Nomadic Party may also be understood as a modus operandi within an artistic methodology, a way of approaching understanding through a flexible pre-existing frame that also mindfully considers the specifics of a constantly changing situation. Through spontaneous acts of deconstruction or development, art at its best also operates beyond the realm of conventional attitudes and attempts to overcome established patterns of viewing the world around us. At all times within Nine Dragon Heads art has been conceived not only as an embodiment of professional skills, but as a reflection on the manifested environment through a certain worldview.
The programme has several kinds of activity, held at different periods, which are all connected by theme and intent. This includes an extended research program that began one year before the formal exhibition expression and continues with site-related laboratory-style activity during the exhibition season.
The central idea is that works for Nomadic Party to be exhibited in Venice were developed over a series of site visits so that what is exhibited has conscious and thoughtful location influence on its development. These site visits will continue during the staging of the static exhibition component with an additional summer 2024 workshop program with outcomes that will also be reflected in the programme.
Picnic Pavilion: Nomadic Edition – 1st - 7th August
Finissage Program – 22nd - 24th November |
