Let Us Dance: Spectrum Spectrum, Plateau Museum, Seoul, South Korea, July 24th - October 12th 2014.

<div>This collection includes a collaborative flash mob performance, <b>Let Us Dance</b>, and a large scale embroidery work, <b>Burning Love</b> inspired by the landmark 2008 candlelit demonstrations in Seoul involving the mass participation of teenage girls. Commissioned for the PLATEAU Museum, Seoul in 2014, <b>Let Us Dance </b>explores the potential of unregulated collective engagement and history as an ongoing act of participation and socio political and cultural challenge in the present.<br><br>This item contains an exhibition invitation (courtesy of Spectrum Spectrum and Plateau), 10 performance images, and 2 pdfs of contextual information on the works. </div><div><div><br></div><div><div>This item documents<b> </b><b>Let Us Dance </b>and <b>Burning Love</b> which were both commissioned and exhibited for <i>Spectrum,Spectrum</i>, at PLATEAU Museum, Seoul in 2014, showcasing diverse contemporary Korean art.<b> Let Us Dance </b>was a flash mob performance staged each Saturday of the 2 month exhibition by a different group of volunteer teenage street dancers, who entered the gallery space, danced to a soundtrack of their own choice from their mobile phones and then left. Developed in parallel with <b>Let us Dance, </b><b>Burning Love </b>(2014) is a large embroidery work based on a magnified archival image of the teenager’s 2008 candlelit demonstration.<br><br>Part of the group exhibition at Samsung Plateau Museum (running until 2016), showcased 14 artists celebrating 10 years' achievement of the museum on contemporary art in Korea.<br><br>Curated by Soyeon Ahn, Director of Plateau.<br><br><b>Burning Love</b> 2014 (280x370cm), has also been shown at 2 solo exhibitions, <i>Fire that Never Dies</i> at the Cecilla Hillstrom Gallery, Stockholm in 2015, and <i>The Moon’s Trick at the </i>KCCUK and Exeter Phoenix, Exeter in in 2017as well as a group exhibition, <i>Go On Being So </i>at the Newlyn gallery, Newlyn 2020.<br><b><br>Photography by Young In Hong. Used with permission.<br></b><b><br>The work is under copyright and may not be used without permission. Use of this repository acknowledges cooperation with its policies and relevant copyright law.</b></div><div><br></div></div></div>