Korean experimental art

In December 1967 three groups, Zero (Mudongin), the New Exhibition Group (Sinjeondongin), and Origin, held the Union Exhibition of Korean Young Artists at the Central Public Information Hall in Seoul. Against the National Art Exhibition and the Informel painting that dominated the art world, they showed objects, installations, and happenings, and some of the artists took to the streets with placards. In 1969 the Korean Avant-Garde Association (AG) and Lee Kun-yong's group ST (Space and Time) were founded; AG published a journal, organized themed exhibitions, and in 1974 held the Seoul Biennale, the first biennale in Korea. In 1970 Kim Kulim planned to place a large block of ice under red cloth in an exhibition and let it melt over the run; the organizers, fearing water damage, refused. In 1971 Lee Kun-yong dragged a tree trunk, roots and soil and all, into the galleries of the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art. Works like these mostly existed on site only for a while, and what remains is photographs and records. Lee Kang-so, shown at Lotte Museum of Art, was also a member of AG.

Find a photograph that records a performance or event: besides the artist, who else is in it, and where is it?

When a work happened only once, what is left of it today?

• Dansaekhwa 단색화→Most works in the 1974 Seoul Biennale were flat works hung on the wall, which has been read as a forerunner of Dansaekhwa.
• Conceptual Art 개념미술→AG's journal introduced Western trends such as conceptual art and land art.