Let Us Dance: Seoul & Paris Rehearsal Videos

This collection includes a collaborative flash mob performance, Let Us Dance, and a large scale embroidery work, Burning Love inspired by the landmark 2008 candlelit demonstrations in Seoul involving the mass participation of teenage girls. Commissioned for the PLATEAU Museum, Seoul in 2014, Let Us Dance explores the potential of unregulated collective engagement and history as an ongoing act of participation and socio political and cultural challenge in the present. This item contains 2 videos of rehearsals in Seoul, Korea in preparation for the performance at the Plateau Museum in 2014, and 4 rehearsal videos for the event at Art Paris 2016, Grand Palais, Paris. Videos by Young In Hong.

本馆藏涵盖合作快闪演出《Let Us Dance》与大型刺绣作品《Burning Love》。其中，《Burning Love》的创作灵感源自2008年首尔标志性烛光集会，该活动彼时汇聚了大量青少年群体参与。《Let Us Dance》于2014年受首尔PLATEAU博物馆委托创作，该作品探讨了无规制集体参与的可能性，以及将历史视为当下持续进行的参与行为与社会政治、文化抗争的实践内涵。本藏品包含2段为2014年首尔PLATEAU博物馆演出筹备的韩国首尔彩排录像，以及4段2016年巴黎大皇宫Art Paris艺术博览会相关活动的彩排录像。影像由洪仁瑛（Young In Hong）摄制。