case study

The way to display

The exhibition in VA museum, disobedient objects, indicate the relationship between the social movement, history and social struggles.

I am inspired the way how they classify the object by their function 

Making word 

Speaking out 

Solidarity

Direct action

A multitude of struggle 

the case study of form

I want to use the method which is the museum use, the final outcome might be a category and objects. 

case study

I want my work can interact with the audience ,so I will keep thinking how to place the object 

The idea of classify

It is an interesting idea to classify the animal.   Jorge Luis Borges introduces a new way to classify the animal we familiar, It might be a good idea to classify my object in an imaginative way. 

The list divides all animals into one of 14 categories:

• Those that belong to the emperor
• Embalmed ones
• Those that are trained
• Suckling pigs
• Mermaids (or Sirens)
• Fabulous ones
• Stray dogs
• Those that are included in this classification
• Those that tremble as if they were mad
• Innumerable ones
• Those drawn with a very fine camel hair brush
• Et cetera
• Those that have just broken the flower vase
• Those that, at a distance, resemble flies

Classify the unclassifible--------Collect

I am interested how the museum constructs the stories. The museum claims that they 

tell stories through objects, however, we can keep the object, but we cannot preserve the condition we use it. In this case, I keep recording the invisible and unspoken message, it also indicates the gap between the object and meaning。

object is nothing but tool

Experience

When I visited the museum of London, I found an interesting exhibition which is the 

reconstruction of a street which in the past London, Then I realized the museum always try to give the audience a scene through objects, the most important is the scene rather than the object. The object is only the tool to drive the storyline. Objects are classified into different categories,for example, a shell in the British  Museum is in the money exhibition,however,in the museum of London, it might be in the exhibition which is the London before London.   Whether the object in different categories will affect how we see the object? What's the gap of the object  between different categories?

The label of category comes from the British museum.

The sketch of  installation

The missing values

When the object display in the museum, it is not the object we use in our daily life anymore. It is transformed from the functional object to the decorative object. It seems like the museum destroy and reproduce the object. 

Kim Beom: Animalia

Through an expansive practice that spans drawing, sculpture, video, and artist books, Seoul-based artist Kim Beom contemplates a world in which perception is radically questioned. His visual language is characterized by deadpan humor and absurdist propositions that playfully and subversively invert expectations. By suggesting that what you see may not be what you see, Kim reveals the tension between internal psychology and external reality, and relates observation and knowledge as states of mind.

Organized around the theme and title Animalia, Kim’s exhibition explores the vast sphere of nature and the animal kingdom, often inverting its laws and collapsing the boundaries of living beings and inanimate objects. Refusing to accept the clear distinctions that separate realms of existence, Kim deftly employs animism, illusion and a deep sense of empathy in his works to reflect upon and transgress the social institutions that delineate natural order. 

Kim Beom (b. 1963, Seoul) currently lives and works in Seoul, where he received his BFA and MFA from Seoul National University in 1986 and 1988, respectively. In 1991, Kim received a second MFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York, where he continued to live and work throughout the 1990s. He has since had numerous solo exhibitions in such venues as the Artsonje Center, Seoul and, most recently, at the Cleveland Museum of Art. In addition to being featured prominently in recent surveys of contemporary art from Korea at such venues as the Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo in Mexico City, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, his work has been included in such notable international exhibitions as the 2003 Istanbul Biennial, the 2005 Venice Biennale and Media City Seoul 2010.