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Absolute Space was invited by ACC (Asia Culture Center) in Gwangju, Korea to host the annual AASN (Asian Arts Space Network), an event that brings together over 30 art spaces and organizations from Asia at the ACC Creation Building. ART SPACE NETWORK-ASIA KULA, KULA RING, Kula is a concept from Asian intercultural exchange, derived from the book "Argonauts of the Western Pacific" by British anthropologist Bronisław Malinowski. Kula-ring is a wide-ranging inter-tribal exchange of bracelets and necklaces among several small island communities living in the Gulf of New Guinea on a long journey to the most eastern islands of the Trobriand Islands.
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Kula is not a transaction with an economic character, but rather a gift-giving process of a more ceremonial nature. Recently, the concept of Kula has also been used as a way to explore issues of racism, extreme nationalism, or gender, and as a way to reconcile and overcome conflicts between tribes; in other words, because of the polite, reciprocal nature of Kula itself, the paths traveled weave together images like a network formed by the exchange of art spaces in the path. as a paradigm in cultural exchange. This exchange event, held almost every year in Korea, is dedicated to the connection and networking of Asian art spaces and organizations, and has been attended by many since 2012. The purpose of the exhibition is to establish a platform of mutual respect and to lay the foundation for various art spaces to have multiple opportunities for collaboration in Asia.
Absolute Space invites YK Hou to curate the exhibition, titled From A to..., with participating artists Lee Seung Leung, Chen Yeon Yi, and Dong Fu Ki. In "From A to .... In "From A to ," A is the starting point and Absolute Space for the Arts is a question that many art spaces continue to ponder, "Where do we want to go? As we move from one place to another, we rarely look back at the repeating rhythms beneath our feet as we move from step to step. This exhibition contemplates the infinite possibilities that are produced in the process of walking. What is actually produced in the process? Or what's left of it? In every event and exhibition, what is the absolute space that serves as a bridge, a conduit, and a legacy for the audience and artists?
In "On the Street", Dong Fu-Chi uses the Internet to explore the cities he has traveled to, using his mouse instead of his feet to shoot a familiar travel map in Google Street View. In Lee Seung-liang's video work "Hello or Bye Bye," he writes "hello, bye bye" with flour on a two-way street, and the back-and-forth traffic continuously erases the phrase, constructing the idea that in the midst of fast life, people are gradually increasing the distance between them. In the works of these three artists, the road is not just a passage, "from A to ......," but seems to be necessary in the process. in the works of these three artists are more than just passageways, "from A to ," as if there must be something more in the process.
In addition to the works of these three artists, they also contain the leftovers from Absolute Space's "Start from A," the documents and objects that Absolute Space has left behind from exhibition to exhibition, from event to event, including manuscripts from discussions with the artists, documents that were produced continuously when the space was first established, posters from events, and so on. These papers are constantly attached to the memory of the space, but they are also easily left in a deep cabinet somewhere. These remnants, which we will sell at the exhibition, are the path we have taken, the road, these documents in the depths of warehouses and drawers.
