Let Us Dance: Spectrum Spectrum, Plateau Museum, Seoul, South Korea, July 24th - October 12th 2014.

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 an exhibition invitation (courtesy of Spectrum Spectrum and Plateau), 10 performance images, and 2 pdfs of contextual information on the works. This item documents Let Us Dance and Burning Love which were both commissioned and exhibited for Spectrum,Spectrum, at PLATEAU Museum, Seoul in 2014, showcasing diverse contemporary Korean art. Let Us Dance was a flash mob performance staged each Saturday of the 2 month exhibition by a different group of volunteer teenage street dancers, who entered the gallery space, danced to a soundtrack of their own choice from their mobile phones and then left. Developed in parallel with Let us Dance, Burning Love (2014) is a large embroidery work based on a magnified archival image of the teenager’s 2008 candlelit demonstration.Part of the group exhibition at Samsung Plateau Museum (running until 2016), showcased 14 artists celebrating 10 years' achievement of the museum on contemporary art in Korea.Curated by Soyeon Ahn, Director of Plateau.Burning Love 2014 (280x370cm), has also been shown at 2 solo exhibitions, Fire that Never Dies at the Cecilla Hillstrom Gallery, Stockholm in 2015, and The Moon’s Trick at the KCCUK and Exeter Phoenix, Exeter in in 2017as well as a group exhibition, Go On Being So at the Newlyn gallery, Newlyn 2020.Photography by Young In Hong. Used with permission.The work is under copyright and may not be used without permission. Use of this repository acknowledges cooperation with its policies and relevant copyright law.

本集锦收录了一场协作即兴舞蹈表演——《让我们舞蹈》，以及一件大型刺绣作品——《燃烧之爱》，该作品灵感来源于2008年首尔地标性烛光示威活动，活动中有大量少女参与。此作品于2014年受首尔PLATEAU美术馆委托创作，旨在探讨无监管集体参与的历史潜能，以及历史作为持续参与、当下社会政治文化挑战的持续行为的可能性。《让我们舞蹈》包含一份展览邀请函（由Spectrum Spectrum和PLATEAU美术馆提供）、10张表演图像以及2份关于作品背景信息的PDF文件。本集锦记录了《让我们舞蹈》和《燃烧之爱》，这两件作品均于2014年由Spectrum Spectrum委托并在首尔PLATEAU美术馆展出，展示了多样化的韩国当代艺术。《让我们舞蹈》是一场即兴舞蹈表演，在为期两个月的展览期间，每周六由不同的一组志愿者街头舞者进行，他们进入展厅，用手机选择自己的音乐进行舞蹈，然后离开。《燃烧之爱》（2014）是一件基于青少年2008年烛光示威活动放大档案图像的大型刺绣作品。作为持续至2016年的群展的一部分，在三星PLATEAU美术馆展出，庆祝了该馆在韩国当代艺术领域成立10周年的成就。由PLATEAU美术馆馆长Soyeon Ahn策划。《燃烧之爱》2014年（280x370cm）亦曾在2015年于斯德哥尔摩的Cecilla Hillstrom美术馆举办的“永不熄灭之火”个展，以及2017年于伦敦KCCUK和Exeter的Exeter Phoenix举办的“月亮的诡计”个展和2020年于Newlyn画廊的群展“继续如此”中展出。摄影由Young In Hong拍摄，经许可使用。作品受版权保护，未经许可不得使用。使用本库承认与相关政策及相关版权法的合作。