Korean Video Art from 1970s to 1990s: Time Image Apparatus

South Korea’s modern art history largely unfolded at a remove from Western art movements, forestalling the possibility of contemporaneity with the international avantgarde. The development of Korean video art, however, was subject to a relatively short lag time with the West and thus responded more closely to the methodologies that informed its emergence outside Korea. After its introduction in the early 1970s, the use of this new means of expression saw exponential growth in Korea over the subsequent decades before becoming a mainstream mode of contemporary art in the 1990s.

Held at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) in Gwacheon, “Korean Video Art from 1970s to 1990s: Time Image Apparatus”