Treasure Island was a project that emerged from the energies of the six artists in [collaboration + contention]. The collective consists of the artists Dongchan Kim, Seonghong Min, Mingyu Song, Jinyo Choi, Seokjun HA, and Gyunghyun Hwang. In the Treasure Island project, the artists presented how the collective with contentious plurality operates and influences individual artists, and how the artistic life as a group turns to that of an individual. Nyet! Nyet! Nyet!, shown in the Seoul Mediacity Biennale 2018, is a performative project that demonstrates the ways in which the “relationship” of the six artists transforms itself and the six individuals, while maintaining its informal shape.
Dongchan Kim’s installation work Dribble consists of the artist transporting someone’s favorite video game machine on a freightbicycle. Conceived as a sculpture piece, Kim rides the bicycle from his studio and travels approximately 150 km and finally parks at the Museum where the exhibition is held.
Seonghong Min’s installation Antennae bird conveys the invisible influences and identities within our social environment through the symbolic object of “antennae.”
In his painting Speed of Darkness, Mingyu Song illustrates a night scene even brighter than a scene of life at daytime. He worked based on the notion that everything re-starts in the darkness—in this sense, the work represents the genesis of the life of our times.
Seokjun HA’s media installation Religion is believing, technology is understanding represents the extreme situation in which the contemporary ideology that learning new technologies is analogous to accepting a religion becomes dominant.
Jinyo Choi’s The Man Who Writes is a series of cartoons in which the artist describes the irresistible force of a society that individuals confront in the process of socialization and the processes by which they conform to this power.
Gyunghyun Hwang’s Squaremeter is a painting installation that illustrates an aerial view of a planned city within the minimum area of residence, 3.3 pyeong. The work is presented on the floor of the exhibition space so that the audiences can survey the cityscape.
