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Jin Sup Yoon’s Playful Performance Art

  • Journal of History of Modern Art
  • 2021, (50), pp.45-78
  • Publisher : 현대미술사학회
  • Research Area : Arts and Kinesiology > Art > Arts in general > Art History
  • Received : October 31, 2021
  • Accepted : November 30, 2021
  • Published : December 31, 2021

Cho, Soojin 1

1성신여자대학교

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ABSTRACT

Jin Sup Yoon, one of Korea’s leading performance artists, worked as a critic, curator, and educator while pursuing avant-garde art throughout his life. Most notable within his long career is Yoon’s role as a living witness of the history of Korean performance art, and his seventy or so performance pieces that have been released to date. Many artists have practiced performance art since the genre’s introduction in Korea, but few have produced performance works consistently throughout their lifetime. In addition, it is rare to see artists with such diverse careers—Yoon worked simultaneously as a performance artist, a performance-related exhibition curator at home and abroad, a performance critic and a historical researcher. Therefore, examining Jin Sup Yoon’s works and the practices involved is a matter of examining the development process of the more than forty years of Korean performance art history. Although each era of Yoon’s performance shows its distinct nature, the ultimate motivation behind his works remains the same throughout. It is a continuous quest, explored through the medium of performance, to break free from the ideological dichotomy that modern and contemporary Korean art has been so obsessed with: ‘participation’ and ‘purity.’ For this goal he has traversed the inside and outside of the Korean art scene in order to bring a change of perception. Yoon’s performances, constructed freely and without any set path or strategy, are the result of the artist’s nomadic worldview. Less grandiose and more delightful, like a child’s play, they sought to create a fissure within the mainstream art scene instead of confronting it head to head. Yoon continues to create his unique kind of performance pieces to this day, using art as “play,” a new way of thinking that can free itself from hostile ideological divisions.

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