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DESCRIPTION:Minouk Lim engages with the arteries of city life—the street
 s—to create poignant artworks that speak to individual alienation amid S
 eoul’s rapid development. Merging performance\, video\, and documentary\
 , the work of this Korean artist has been shown in increasingly wider circ
 les since she was awarded the Hermes Korea Art Prize in 2007 and the 1st M
 edia Art Korea Award in 2010.  \n\nFor her first in-depth US solo museum e
 xhibition\, the Walker presents a trio of Lim’s large-scale video instal
 lations\, which grew out of her interest in capturing lost memories and th
 e collective unconscious. In New Town Ghost (2005)\, a slam poet with a me
 gaphone raps from the back of a truck as it drives through a “new town
 ” project in Seoul\, deriding its indifferent citizens. S.O.S—Adoptive
  Dissensus (2009) follows nighttime passengers on a Han River cruise boat 
 who encounter performances staged along the riverbanks. An infrared camera
  records the warmth emanating from “pilgrims” traveling to restricted 
 construction sites in The Weight of Hands (2010).   \n\nAlong with these i
 mmersive multidisciplinary works\, which speak to the human cost of modern
 ization\, the exhibition includes a series of Lim’s wearable sculptures 
 commissioned by the Walker. Using thermofoam\, a plastic sculpted by heat\
 , and a variety of other synthetic and natural materials\, she conceived t
 hese works as protective\, totemic shields for use in an imagined apocalyp
 tic landscape. On the exhibition’s opening night\, Lim and Minneapolis-b
 ased dancer/choreographer Emily Johnson will incorporate the works in a pe
 rformance based around themes of nature\, myth\, and civilization.\nCurato
 r: Clara Kim
LOCATION:Burnet Gallery
SUMMARY:Minouk Lim: Heat of Shadows
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URL:http://www.walkerart.org/calendar/2012/minouk-lim
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