Installation view of “Transport to Another World” ©MMCA
The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (MMCA) presents “Transport to Another World” until 16 February 2025, to celebrate the 2024–2025 Korea-Canada Year of Cultural Exchanges, in collaboration with the National Film Board of Canada (NFB).
Taekyung Yoo, Cinematic Screening_There is No
Poverty at the End of Labor, 2022, VR flim, 19 min. ©Taekyung
Yoo“Transport to Another World” features 11 artworks created by eight artists (and teams) hailing from either Korea or Canada—contemporary artists who all experiment with different techniques. Hayoun KWON, Gina Kim, Kyungmook Kim, Randall Okita, Lisa Jackson, and Taekyung Yoo experiment with VR films; Jason Legge and Dirk Van Ginkel adapt author Joy Kogawa’s writing into a game format; and Tyler Hagan showcases an interactive web-based photo essay.
Kyungmook Kim, 5.25m2, 2022,
VR installation, 20 min. ©Kyungmook Kim“Transport to Another World” transports its
audience to the streets of Seoul in the 1930s, a Canadian wartime internment
camp in the 1940s, and the alleys after nightfall in Dongducheon’s camptown in
the 1990s. To experience the exhibition’s VR films, please make a reservation
on the gallery according to the guidance of the staffs. Other exhibition pieces
can be experienced on site with no special reservation required. Some works
require scanning a QR code and downloading an app onto your mobile device.
Ji Yeon Lee has been working as an editor for the media art and culture channel AliceOn since 2021 and worked as an exhibition coordinator at samuso (now Space for Contemporary Art) from 2021 to 2023.
