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“We wanted to present the village that seems to exist between reality and unreality as a work of art.

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“Although it is called ‘Freedom Village,’ it is not free at all, which is an irony,” Jeon said during a press preview Thursday. The general theme that runs through their project is isolation.īut the Freedom Village - which appears as “destination not found” on GPS navigation devices – is more isolated than most, and though the pair have wanted to visit for sometime, have not been able to do so. The project - which premiered at Kassel Documenta 13 in 2012 – has taken place in different places around the world. Working together since 2009, artist duo Moon Kyung-won and Jeon Joon-ho initiated the project “News From Nowhere” inspired by the eponymous utopian novel written by William Morris (1834-1896). ” reinterprets the history of the village through photographs, installations, paintings and text.

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The exhibition “MMCA Hyundai Motor Series 2021: An installation view of “MMCA Hyundai Motor Series 2021: Moon Kyungwon & Jeon Joonho - News From Nowhere, Freedom Village” at a press preview of the exhibition held on Thursday at the MMCA Seoul(Park Yuna/The Korea Herald) When the residents in the village turn 32, they have to decide whether to remain or leave. Originally named Daeseong-dong, the village has been isolated since the Korean War armistice agreement in 1953. They will discover what has caused the crisis that the humanity faces now and explore the alternatives for the future.The “Freedom village” is the sole South Korean settlement located in the southern part of the Demilitarized Zone that cuts across the Korean peninsula. There will be a total of four sessions held as part of the Mobile Agora with project partners, researchers and professionals from various fields’ architecture, science, design, humanities, and so on. In addition, a large public platform named ‘Mobile Agora’ will invite experts from every corner of life to discuss issues related to the exhibition. MMCA Hyundai Motor Series 2021: Moon Kyungwon & Jeon Joonho – NEWS FROM NOWHERE, FREEDOM VILLAGE aims to expand the scope of visitors’ imagination by enabling them to travel across the boundaries of reality and fiction through images and videos made based on actual archives and fictions on the history of the village. Surrounded by Gyeongbokgung Palace, Changdeokgung Palace, and Jongmyo Shrine, Bukchon Hanok Village is home to hundreds of Korean traditional houses, ‘hanok’, that dates back to the Joseon Dynasty. The project shows that the Freedom Village, which has been isolated for a long time as one that exists but does not at the same time due to the ideological conflict of the past, reflects the present and future of our society while continuously changing and repeating within our daily lives.

At the same time, they have expanded the project to also reflect the reality that the world faces today as we grapple with the global pandemic which is leading to increased isolation in many ways. The two artists focus on the deformed nature of the village that has resulted from the confrontation and tension of human history, moving beyond the perspective of viewing it as a distinctive location resulting from the unique political situation of the Korean Peninsula. Through the MMCA Hyundai Motor Series 2021, Moon & Jeon aim to present a new chapter of NEWS FROM NOWHERE: FREEDOM VILLAGE fully commissioned by MMCA and Hyundai Motor based on the only village that lies on the South Korean side of the heavily fortified Demiliterized Zone (DMZ)-Daeseong-dong, also known as “Freedom Village.” The village, which is not even marked on the navigation system, has spent the past 7 decades without being a part of either South or North Korea since the signing of the Armistice Agreement in 1953 after the Korean War. For the past decade or so, the project has been unfolded globally in various forms - media, installation, archive, multi-disciplinary research and workshop, publication. The project premiered at Kassel Documenta 13 in 2012, and has also won the Korea Artist Prize 2012 held during the same year at MMCA as well as the Noon Award at the 9th Gwangju Biennale. Their representative project, NEWS FROM NOWHERE, has been inspired by the eponymous utopian novel authored in the late 19th century by William Morris (1834–1869), who led the Arts and Crafts movement in the UK.

Through their collaboration dating back to 2009, Moon Kyungwon & Jeon Joonho have been exploring the relationship between the human society and art by throwing the fundamental question of “what does art do” in the rapidly changing world and crisis that humanity faces including contradictions of capitalism, historic tragedies and climate change.