The 2nd VH AWARD: Hyungkyu Kim “Hear the Wind_Across the Border”
The 2nd VH AWARD: Hyungkyu Kim “Hear the Wind_Across the Border”
The 2nd VH AWARD: Hyungkyu Kim “Hear the Wind_Across the Border”
The 2nd VH AWARD: Hyungkyu Kim “Hear the Wind_Across the Border”
About the Video
In 2nd VH AWARD Grand Prix winner Hyungkyu Kim's Hear the Wind_Across the Border (2016) a "360 degree view through media" extends the viewer’s role from passive recipient to neutral onlooker to active observer. Viewers confront a 360 degree sight of landscapes looked through the perspectives from Imjingak; Yeonmijeong in Ganghwado; Yongsan redevelopment area; and the site of the Admiral and the historical statue of Soonshin Lee in Gwanghwamun, Seoul, Korea. The artist throws in an underlying question to the viewers who became the independent observer on visually opposed ‘South and North’ ‘Generations’ and ‘Individuals and Groups’.
Hyungkyu Kim, Still from Hear the Wind_Across the Border, 2016. Courtesy of Hyundai Motor Group VH AWARD.
About the Program
The VH AWARD supports emerging media artists who engage with the context of Asia through an online residency program and exhibitions of commissioned artworks across various global platforms. Initiated in 2016, the VH AWARD has been discovering and cultivating promising artists to share their artistic experiments and amplify their voices on diverse issues. The award encourages artists who push the boundaries of audiovisual artworks to reflect on how we understand ourselves and one another in relation to the past, present and future. To amplify and share their voices with broader communities, the artworks commissioned by the VH AWARD have been exhibited in partnership with various art institutions and platforms, including the Vision Hall of Hyundai Motor Group in Yongin, South Korea; the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria; the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Nusantara in Jakarta, Indonesia; the National Arts Council in Singapore; the House of Electronic Arts in Basel, Switzerland; and the Elektra Virtual Museum.