Korean experimental art / Research source collection
When documentation
becomes the work.
Evidence and source access
An annotated catalogue of consulted records, accessible scholarship and remaining access limits. An official description, an inspected facsimile and a later interpretation are different kinds of evidence.
Official PDFs and archival records are linked below. The unmodified Wielocha article is provided under CC BY-NC 4.0 with attribution. Other third-party documents remain with their issuing institutions. No notebook, handwritten document or restricted manuscript interior is reproduced or represented as inspected in this catalogue.
These annotations identify what each consulted source can establish and what remains open. The collection supplements version 2.0 of the published working paper and preserves access to version 1.0; it does not replace either deposited edition or indicate journal acceptance.
Rim Dong Sik
Archival object record · Public record
1985년 〈풀잎과 마주한 생각〉 문서 — Document for Thoughts Facing a Blade of Grass, 1985
Seoul Museum of Art, Art Archives · n.d.
MA-02-00007550; object fields and description
What this source supports. Describes one photograph copied in two parts across two sheets, within Rim’s practice of printing, copying, layering and editing.
Limit. Two sheets do not establish two exposures, a copying date or a complete production sequence.
Rights and access
Archive images carry an explicit restriction on unauthorized copying, transmission and distribution. Link to the official record; no image or facsimile is cleared for hosting.
Archival object record · Public record
1985년 함부르크에서 촬영한 〈풀잎과 마주한 생각〉 사진 복사본 — Copy of a Photograph of Thoughts Facing a Blade of Grass Taken in Hamburg, 1985
Seoul Museum of Art, Art Archives · n.d.
MA-02-00006517; object fields and description
What this source supports. Catalogues a separate copied photographic document associated with the 1985 Hamburg action.
Limit. Separate registration does not establish a distinct source negative or the order in which the copies were made.
Rights and access
Archive images carry an explicit restriction on unauthorized copying, transmission and distribution. Link to the official record; no image or facsimile is cleared for hosting.
Archival object record · Public record
1988년 서해안 원산도에서의 〈갈대와 수염 묶기〉 사진 — Photograph of Tying Reeds and Beard on Wonsando, 1988
Seoul Museum of Art, Art Archives · n.d.
MA-03-00006485; object fields and description
What this source supports. SeMA attributes moisture damage and subsequent marker and oil-paint additions to Rim; the entry records a 2019 gift.
Limit. The record does not date the repair or supply a treatment map. The paper reports the museum’s account rather than physical examination.
Rights and access
Archive images carry an explicit restriction on unauthorized copying, transmission and distribution. Link to the official record; no image or facsimile is cleared for hosting.
Collection essay · Public record
임동식 컬렉션 — Rim Dong Sik Collection
Kim Ho-jeong; SeMA Art Archives · n.d.
Collection C8; sections 2–3 and note 1
What this source supports. Describes Rim’s participation in arranging records and supplying explanations before transfer to the museum.
Limit. Artist involvement in preparing the collection does not establish the repair date or authorship date of every caption.
Rights and access
Link to the institutional essay; no republication licence for its text or embedded images verified.
Collection research guide, version 3.0 · Free official PDF
임동식 컬렉션 연구조사 가이드 — Rim Dong Sik Collection Research Guide
Seoul Museum of Art, Art Archives; essay by Kim Jong-gil · 2025-10-31
Printed p.23 (PDF p.25), institutional collection description C8
What this source supports. Records four collection occasions: 30 November, 10 December and 28 December 2018, and 8 January 2019.
Limit. These are collection-level dates; the guide does not assign the repaired photograph to a particular transfer or date its repair.
Rights and access
Copyright page, PDF p.33, prohibits unauthorized copying, republication, alteration and transmission. Official PDF link only.
Kim Kulim
Collection object record · Public record
현상에서 흔적으로 — From Phenomenon to Traces
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea · n.d.
Management no.04616; online record 4616; object fields and description
What this source supports. Lists a C-print on paper, 99 × 148 cm, dated 1970 with printing in 2000, acquired by purchase.
Limit. Purchase year, source negative, photographer, edition and printing authorization are not supplied.
Rights and access
MMCA expressly restricts unauthorized copying, transmission and distribution of collection images. Official record link only.
Programme announcement · Public record
Kim Ku-lim: Reenactment of From Phenomenon to Traces—The Event with Fire and Lawn (1970)
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea · 2016-03-04
Announcement for 18 March 2016, Gwacheon outdoor sculpture park
What this source supports. Schedules the reperformance within the programme marking the thirtieth anniversary of MMCA Gwacheon.
Limit. An announcement establishes the announced programme; the annual report supplies evidence that it occurred.
Rights and access
No item-specific redistribution permission verified; embedded artwork images are not cleared. Link to the official source.
Annual report · Free official PDF
2016 미술관 연보 — 2016 Annual Report
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea · 2017
Section 4-2, printed pp.104–105
What this source supports. Confirms the March 2016 reperformance and the creation and archiving of photographs and digital video for later exhibition and research.
Limit. It does not establish that MMCA’s 2000 print was used to plan the event or identify the file lineage of a later video loan.
Rights and access
No item-specific redistribution permission verified; embedded artwork images are not cleared. Link to the official source.
Work record and researcher’s note · Public record
현상에서 흔적으로 — From Phenomenon to Traces
Korea Arts Management Service, Korean Senior Artist Digital Archive · n.d.
Work W00000000000000020383; researcher’s note
What this source supports. Reports a qualified photographer attribution to Jung Chanseung, citing Asia Culture Center’s 2016 Happenings and Events, p.95.
Limit. The cited ACC page was not inspected. This record’s 2019 reperformance date conflicts with MMCA’s contemporary 2016 records; those govern the paper’s chronology.
Rights and access
KADA restricts unauthorized copying and distribution. Link to the public record; no archival image, notebook or manuscript facsimile is cleared for hosting.
Exhibition checklist · Free official PDF
Only the Young: Experimental Art in Korea, 1960s–1970s — exhibition press kit and checklist
Guggenheim Museum · 2023-09-01
X.2018.341 (PDF p.6); X.2021.556; X.2018.370
What this source supports. Lists Kim’s 1970/2016 reperformance video, lasting 4:59, with MMCA as lender; separately identifies Sung’s twelve-print panel and ARKO installation loans.
Limit. Checklist codes are not MMCA acquisition dates. Loan descriptions do not establish unchanged components or the source file of the video.
Rights and access
Public download does not establish permission to mirror the complete illustrated press kit. Link to the official PDF.
Conference paper · Free official PDF
1960-1970년대 한국 실험미술과 사진예술의 교차적 실천과 비평 담론 — Intersecting Practices and Critical Discourses of Korean Experimental Art and Photographic Art in the 1960s–1970s
Eunjoo Lee · 2025-10-11
69th Autumn Conference of the Korea Association for History of Modern Art, pp.13–17; especially 16–17
What this source supports. Places Kim Kulim’s grass-burning action within Korean photographic practice and discusses documentation’s artistic recognition.
Limit. It contextualizes the inquiry; the specific 2000 print’s negative, edition and acquisition chain still require other records.
Rights and access
Freely available association PDF; no redistribution licence verified. Official link only.
Full scholarly text · Free official PDF
Manifestations of a Zombie Avant-garde: South Korean Performance and Conceptual Art in the 1970s
Sooran Choi · 2020
re•bus 9 (Spring): 74–108; especially pp.85–87,93–95
What this source supports. Examines Kim Kulim’s grass-burning and Sung’s newspaper installation through press and archival photographs in the political conditions of the 1970s.
Limit. Provides political and historical context; it is not an accession or conservation account for the later collected photographic objects.
Rights and access
Free PDF hosted by the University of Essex; no permission to mirror the entire illustrated article verified. Source link only.
Sung Neung Kyung
Collection object record · Public record
신문 읽기 — Reading Newspaper
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea · n.d.
Management no.08033; online record 8194; object fields and first historical paragraph
What this source supports. Identifies twelve gelatin silver prints and connects the collected panel with photographic exhibition in 1976.
Limit. Institutional identification does not independently prove that every paper, support and attachment survives unchanged.
Rights and access
MMCA expressly restricts unauthorized copying, transmission and distribution of collection images. Official record link only.
Historical exhibition record · Public record
제4회 앙데빵당전 — Fourth Independents Exhibition
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea · n.d.
Exhibition dates, 3–9 July 1976
What this source supports. Dates the exhibition opening to the same day as the museum’s recorded Event Logical performance.
Limit. The dates do not establish the intraday order of exhibition opening, photographic display and live action.
Rights and access
No item-specific redistribution permission verified; embedded artwork images are not cleared. Link to the official source.
Annual report and acquisition list · Free official PDF
2017 미술관 연보 — 2017 Annual Report
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea · 2018
Section 3-1; printed p.69, no.63
What this source supports. Lists Reading Newspaper among the museum’s 2017 acquisitions.
Limit. Acquisition reporting dates collection, not manufacture of each photographic sheet or its mount.
Rights and access
No item-specific redistribution permission verified; embedded artwork images are not cleared. Link to the official source.
Exhibition brochure · Free official PDF
Reenacting History: Collective Actions and Everyday Gestures
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea · 2017
Printed p.12, Reading Newspapers caption
What this source supports. Reproduces the twelve images and records a Lee Wanho photographic credit and courtesy of the artist.
Limit. The credit does not specify whether it covers the original exposures or later reproduction; no print-manufacture or mounting date is supplied.
Rights and access
No item-specific redistribution permission verified; embedded artwork images are not cleared. Link to the official source.
Work record and researcher’s note · Public record
신문 읽기 — Reading Newspapers
Korea Arts Management Service, Korean Senior Artist Digital Archive · n.d.
Work W00000000000000016313; researcher’s note
What this source supports. Connects twelve 1976 photographs used in the Event Logical brochure with the images held by MMCA.
Limit. The brochure interior and linked artist note were not inspected; no frame-by-frame or component-level identification is claimed.
Rights and access
KADA restricts unauthorized copying and distribution. Link to the public record; no archival image, notebook or manuscript facsimile is cleared for hosting.
Artist research dossier · Public record
성능경 — Sung Neung-Kyung research dossier
Korea Arts Management Service, Korean Senior Artist Digital Archive; research led by Cho Soojin · n.d.
Research scope§1(3)①; recording principles§2(1)③; collection history§2(1)⑨
What this source supports. Explains classification of performance images as artworks through exhibition, publication or artist selection; describes film digitization and identifies the ARKO installation with a 2001 reperformance.
Limit. These retrospective research procedures do not date MMCA’s sheets or establish the 1976 panel’s material continuity. Restricted catalogue and artist-note interiors remain unread.
Rights and access
KADA restricts unauthorized copying and distribution. Link to the public record; no archival image, notebook or manuscript facsimile is cleared for hosting.
Historical research-platform entry · Public record
Event-Logical
MMCA Research Lab · n.d.
Final sentence and brochure-cover caption
What this source supports. Describes event photographs in the brochure as made before the live occasion.
Limit. Applying this to all twelve Reading Newspaper images remains a qualified inference from institutional descriptions, pending examination of the brochure interior.
Rights and access
Link to the institutional entry; no permission verified to reproduce its brochure-cover image.
Conference paper · Free official PDF
성능경의 초기 사진 작업(1975–1976) 연구 — A Study of Sung Neung Kyung’s Early Photographic Work, 1975–1976
Seo Yeon Chung · 2024-10-05
67th Autumn Conference of the Korea Association for History of Modern Art, pp.1–5; especially 2–3
What this source supports. Analyzes the camera’s constitutive role in Sung’s early photography, providing a fuller accessible argument than the journal abstract alone.
Limit. This conference paper is a separate text from Chung and Chung’s final 2024 journal article; it is not a substitute for that unseen version.
Rights and access
Freely available association PDF; no redistribution licence verified. Official link only.
Full scholarly text · Free official PDF
1970년대 중·후반의 이벤트 — Events in the Mid-to-Late 1970s
Ryu Hanseung · 2015
국립현대미술관 연구논문 7: 103–127; especially printed pp.112–113,115
What this source supports. Lists Sung’s April and July 1976 newspaper actions and transcribes the April poster’s procedure of reading passages aloud and cutting them out.
Limit. The paper consults Ryu’s transcription, not the original poster. It does not establish the manufacture or mounting history of MMCA’s photographic panel.
Rights and access
MMCA volume: no licence to mirror the complete PDF or extracted article verified. Link to the official full volume.
Comparative scholarship
Full journal article · Free official PDF
현대미술의 보존과 진정성 개념 해석 — Interpreting Authenticity in the Conservation of Contemporary Art
Kim Eunjin · 2016
Journal of MMCA 8:85–98; discussion pp.90–92,94
What this source supports. Considers records, reproduction, artist intention and negotiated conservation decisions while preserving responsibility for surviving originals.
Limit. This is a conservation argument, not a treatment report for Rim, Kim Kulim or Sung.
Rights and access
Volume colophon reserves reproduction rights to writers and MMCA. Link to official complete volume; do not mirror an extracted article.
MA thesis, University of California, Riverside · Public record
Caught in the Act: Korean Experimental Performance of the 1960s and the 1970s
Hanna Yoonwoo Lee · 2019
Discussion pp.40–42
What this source supports. Distinguishes making records from assembling and organizing them, treating documentation as a possible continuation of creative practice.
Limit. This is a precedent for the argument; it does not supply component provenance for the three collection objects.
Rights and access
Link to the university repository record and its available text; no licence for local mirroring has been verified.
Full journal article · Free official PDF
Art Objects as Documents and the Distributed Identity of Contemporary Artworks
Aga Wielocha · 2021
ArtMatters, special issue 1: 106–113; especially 110–111
What this source supports. Explains how objects and contextual information participate in an artwork’s distributed identity.
Limit. Conceptual framework; it supplies no object-specific provenance for these Korean cases.
Rights and access
CC BY-NC 4.0. Provide the unmodified official PDF with full attribution, publisher source and licence link; retain all credits and provide free, noncommercial access.
Aga Wielocha, “Art Objects as Documents and the Distributed Identity of Contemporary Artworks,” ArtMatters, Special Issue 1 (2021), 106–113. Original publisher: https://www.amjournal.org/publications/112. Licensed CC BY-NC 4.0; supplied without alteration.
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International ↗
The complete publisher PDF is supplied without alteration, free of charge, for noncommercial access. No endorsement is implied and no additional restrictions are imposed on the licensed material. Separate rights in any credited third-party content remain applicable.
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Full book chapter · Free official PDF
Reconciling Authenticity and Reenactment: An Art Conservation Perspective
Amy Brost · 2022
In Over and Over and Over Again, pp.183–192; especially 184–187
What this source supports. Examines authenticity in works remade or reperformed over time, supporting distinction between work continuity and physical identity.
Limit. A theoretical conservation account; it does not document treatment of the case-study objects.
Rights and access
Text licence is CC BY-SA4.0 except images or otherwise noted material. Link to the publisher; do not mirror the whole illustrated PDF without resolving exceptions.
Full scholarly text · Free official PDF
What Is Experimental about Experimental Korean Art?
Joan Kee · 2023
In Only the Young: Experimental Art in Korea, 1960s–1970s, edited by Kyung An and Kang Soojung, pp.50–63; especially p.54
What this source supports. Discusses performance photography’s political and representational role within Korean experimental art.
Limit. Contextual scholarship does not date the manufacture, repair or mounting of the named collection objects.
Rights and access
Free chapter PDF hosted on NYU’s faculty site; no permission to mirror the complete illustrated chapter verified. Source link only.
Articles consulted by abstract
The following three final journal articles have been identified, but their complete texts were not obtained from lawful free sources. Their abstracts establish the existence and stated scope of prior scholarship. Full arguments, notes and object histories remain to be checked. The separately listed 2024 conference paper is a distinct text.
Journal article: abstract consulted · Abstract only
임동식의 지속하는 찰나: 퍼포먼스와 타블로 비방 — Rim Dong Sik’s Persistance of Moment: Performance and Tableau Vivant
Kim Han Deul · 2021
The Journal of Art Theory & Practice 32:37–62; published abstract
What this source supports. Identifies a precedent for analyzing Rim’s performances, records and paintings as related forms of practice.
Limit. The complete final article was not obtained from lawful free sources. The paper makes no claim to assess its complete argument or footnotes.
Rights and access
Publisher record link only; no article PDF or facsimile hosted.
Journal article: abstract consulted · Abstract only
김구림의 <현상에서 흔적으로>(1970) 작품 연구 — A Study of Kim Kulim’s From Phenomenon to Traces,1970
Kim Donghyoun · 2014
Art History, Culture, Critique 5:7–28; published abstract
What this source supports. Distinguishes three 1970 works using the shared title, including grass-burning, ice and museum wrapping.
Limit. The complete final article was not obtained from lawful free sources. The title-level distinction is attributed to the published abstract.
Rights and access
Publisher record link only; no article PDF or facsimile hosted.
Journal article: abstract consulted · Abstract only
성능경의 초기 사진 작업(1975–1976) 연구 — A Study of Sung Neung Kyung’s Photography in 1975–1976
Seo Yeon Chung and Yeon Shim Chung · 2024
Journal of History of Modern Art 56:135–154; published abstract
What this source supports. Challenges a merely documentary account of Sung’s early photographic works.
Limit. The complete final journal text was not obtained from lawful free sources. The separate conference paper is available but must not be presented as this final version.
Rights and access
Publisher record link only; no article PDF or facsimile hosted.
