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Affective Autonomy in Korean Art Projects of the 2000s

  • The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art
  • Abbr : JASA
  • 2022, 66(), pp.174-196
  • DOI : 10.17527/JASA.66.0.07
  • Publisher : 한국미학예술학회
  • Research Area : Arts and Kinesiology > Other Arts and Kinesiology
  • Received : April 14, 2022
  • Accepted : May 29, 2022
  • Published : June 30, 2022

Byung-Hee Lee 1

1독립연구자

Accredited

ABSTRACT

This paper explores the process by which the Sungnam Project and Dongducheon Project, which have been actualized in specific locales in the 2000s, have been transformed and expanded until today. These transformations and expansions cannot simply be attributed to such external factors as institutional promotion, some people’s opinions, or local people’s requests, but to the autonomous factors of the projects. The projects have been expanded from local to local and from the local to the local’s history in the form of recurrence, revelation, overlapping, and expansion. These autonomous factors include corporeality, the senses and vivacities of the city and the local that are analogues to the body, communication as the process of invention, the deaths buried under the earth, their invisible histories, and the earth itself. I propose to call the autonomy of these projects their self-vivacious affective processes. This autonomy not only involves aesthetico-political aspects inherent in intervention and participation, but also different forms of aesthetic reflection. I delve into this aesthetic by expanding it to the affective dimension. To discuss this more meticulously, I examine Brian Massumi’s concepts of the virtual and the autonomy of affect. To discuss what role the autonomy of affect plays and how it is an affective process itself, I also examine Gilbert Simondon’s theory of individuation.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.