Heiner Goebbels, The Fish Will Have to Learn to
Walk on Land, 2025 ©Busan Museum of Contemporary ArtThe Busan Museum of Contemporary Art, in
collaboration with the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea
(MMCA), is presenting the exhibition 《Busan MoCA
Performing Arts: Green Shivering》 through June 15.
《Busan MoCA Performing Arts: Green
Shivering》 is the Busan Museum of Contemporary Art’s
new initiative exploring the roles and potentialities of contemporary art.
Focusing on the diversity of performing arts, this exhibition presents works of
overlapping media such as installation, video, performance, and sound art. It
also encourages new perspectives on the complex layers and significance of
ecology—particularly forests—taking Eulsukdo Island as its axis.
Lee Jade Sujin,
Polyphony Club: Put flesh and blood on the wind, 2025 ©Busan Museum of Contemporary ArtThe philosopher and ecological theorist
Timothy Morton (b. 1968) offers intriguing insights into contemporary times in
his book Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology After the End of the
World. He states that “there occurs a crazy arms race between what we
know and what is,” and we have now entered “the age of asymmetry.”
This suggests that the long-held belief in
anthropocentric thinking as a guiding force toward a seamless future is no
longer valid. Morton’s discussion prompts a renewed reflection on the complex
entanglements between humans and nonhumans, as well as the uncertainties of the
future.
Kwak Sojin, Moving Ground, 2025 ©Busan Museum of Contemporary Art
In this exhibition, five artists from Korea
and abroad—Kwak Sojin, Kim Unknown, Lee Jade Sujin, Im Goeun, and Heiner
Goebbels—reinterpret contemporary ecologies through their artistic practices,
responding to questions about an uncertain future.
Their exploration of Eulsukdo Island, the
site of the Busan Museum of Contemporary Art, extends beyond the local
environment and towards a global ecological sensibility. Through experiences
that shift between broad and minute perspectives and obfuscate the boundaries
of reality and imagination, this exhibition challenges viewers to reconsider
their presupposed beliefs.
Performance/Exhibition-Related
Program Schedule ©Busan Museum of
Contemporary ArtStarting with the opening performance, the
exhibition will present various related performances and workshops from May to
early June, offering visitors diverse ways of approaching the themes in the
exhibition. For more details, please visit the Busan Museum of Contemporary
Art’s official website.
Participating Artists: Kwak Sojin, Kim Unknown, Lee Jade Sujin, Im Goeun, Heiner Goebbels
