Gwangju Biennale preview with curators Rita Gonzalez and Christine Y. Kim

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LACMA contemporary art curators Rita Gonzalez and Christine Y. Kim are on the team of co-curators of the 12th Gwangju Biennale, Imagined Borders. Divided into seven sections, Gonzalez and Kim’s exhibition will examine the politics of participation, persuasion and power; contra-internet aesthetics; and analyses of worlds with perpetually threatened access to or without internet under the current and evolving post-internet conditions around the world. The Gwangju Biennale is the oldest international contemporary art biennial in Asia and the site of the 1980 mass protest against the former South Korean military government. Please join us for a unique presentation and discussion with the curators.
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Rita Gonzalez is Curator and Acting Department Head in Contemporary Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art where she has curated Phantom Sightings: Art after the Chicano Movement; Asco: Elite of the Obscure (during the Getty’s Pacific Standard Time festival); Lost Line: Contemporary Art from the Collection; and Agnès Varda in Californialand, among other exhibitions and programs. Recent exhibitions include a presentation of artist gifts to round out LACMA’s 50th anniversary year and A Universal History of Infamy, a group exhibition of contemporary Latino and Latin American artists that was part of Pacific Standard Time LA/LA. Gonzalez’s curatorial collaboration with filmmaker Jesse Lerner, Mexperimental Cinema, was the first survey of Mexican experimental film and video. It traveled to museums and film festivals internationally and resulted in the first bilingual publication on the subject. From 1997-1999, she was the Lila Wallace Curatorial Fellow at the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego. At MCA San Diego, she worked on numerous exhibitions, lectures &amp; film programs, as well as serving as curator for William Kentridge: Weighing and Wanting. She also co-curated the 2006 California Biennial and Adrià Julià: La Villa Basque at the Orange County Museum of Art, and 20 Years Ago Today at the Japanese American National Museum. Her essays appear in Still Moving: Between Cinema and Photography (Duke University Press), Recent Pasts: Art in Southern California from 90s to Now (JRP|Ringier Zurich), and California Video: Artists and Histories (Getty Publications). She was a curatorial advisor for Prospect 3 New Orleans in 2014 and on the curatorial team for the first Current Los Angeles Biennial in 2016.
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Christine Y. Kim is Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art where she is curating a mid-career survey of work by Julie Mehretu to open in November 2019. Kim also curated Diana Thater: The Sympathetic Imagination (2015–16); James Turrell: A Retrospective (2013–14), which was awarded first place for the Best Monographic Museum Exhibition in the U.S. by the International Art Critics Association (AICA-USA) in 2014, and Human Nature: Contemporary Art from the Collection (2011). Other LACMA projects include My Barbarian: Double Agency (2015), and Teresa Margolles (2010), an outdoor sculpture project in collaboration with the Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND), a non-profit organization for public art which she co-founded in 2009. She was also curatorial adviser for Prospect 3: Notes for Now, New Orleans (2014) and guest curator of Art Public at the Bass Museum for Art Basel Miami Beach (2011 and 2012). Prior to her move to Los Angeles, Kim was Associate Curator at The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (2000–2008) where she curated solo and group exhibitions including Flow (2008), Kehinde Wiley: World Stage: Africa, Lagos-Dakar (2008), Philosophy of Time Travel (2007), Frequency (2005), Black Belt (2003), and Freestyle (2001). A recipient of the New Leadership Award from ArtTable (2009) and the American Center Foundation (2001), Kim is contributing a chapter on art and post-internet art in South Korea in Postwar to Contemporary Korean Art anthology (Phaidon 2019).
 
This program is supported by the Byucksan Foundation.
 
Image: Zach Blas, Jubilee 2033 (film still) 2018. Commissioned by Gasworks, London; Art in General, New York; and MU, Eindhoven.