TOMORROW, FRIDAY 1 pm - AN4AA Curatorial Series 2022: Min-Jung Kim on 500 Arhats of Changnyeongsa Temple
Claire Roberts
REMINDER
Dear All,
Please join us this FRIDAY MAY 13, 1PM AEST for the next in our series of AN4AA Curator talks.
Min-Jung Kim will speak on the Five Hundred Arhats of Changnyeongsa Temple exhibition currently at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney.
LINK TO INFORMATION ON THE TALK and link to the event!
About the Exhibition
The Five Hundred Arhats were discovered in 2001–02 among the ruins of the Changnyeongsa temple in Yeongwol, Gangwon-do Province in South Korea and are believed to be around 800 years old.
This exhibition features one Buddha and 50 arhat statues with lifelike expressions, from joy and serenity to anger and sorrow: the gamut of human emotion. Incorporated into an installation created by artist Kim Seung Young made up of more than 1000 audio speakers the exhibition suggests the arhats are meditating in an attitude of intimate, reclusive poise amidst a cacophony that evokes the distracting bustle of urban life.
Produced in collaboration with the Chuncheon National Museum of Korea the exhibition serves as a poignant reminder that each of us is a noble being with the potential to attain enlightenment.
About the Speaker
Min-Jung Kim is Curator of Asian Arts and Design at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney, Australia. Born and trained in South Korea, she is particularly interested in cross-cultural interpretation of museum collections and was the winner of the 2012 ICOM Australia Award for International Relations. She has published and lectured widely on Korean textiles, ceramics and metalworks, and Japanese fashion including edited book, Spirit of Jang-in: Treasures of Korean Metal Craft. Selected exhibitions she worked include Rapt in Colour (1998), Earth, Spirit, Fire (2000), Spirit of jang-in (2011), Japanese folds (2015) and Reflections of Asia (2018). Currently, She is working on a Chinese toggles exhibition and publication which will be a collaborative project between the Powerhouse Museum and Chau Chak Wing Museum, University of Sydney.
Dr Claire Roberts FAHA
Associate Professor Art History
School of Culture and Communication
John Medley Building #191 E363
The University of Melbourne