5/6 nov 2021

21h30

Centro de Artes Performativas do Algarve CAPa

show

coreia #5

+ meeting with Gil Mendo

portugal

“Ehera Noara”
2020, performance, 15 min

Direction Hwayeon Nam
Dramatisation Kim Jae Lee
Performance Ji Hye Chung
Music Jowall

“Against Waves”
2019, vídeo, 14min 53sec

editorial direction João dos Santos Martins
graphic design Isabel Lucena
contribution #5 Alice Dusapin & Christophe Wavelet, Anna Halprin, Bruno Zhu, Dani Issler, Gaya Medeiros, Henrique Neves & Sara Wookey, Hwayeon Nam, Leandro Souza, Leticia Skrycky, Min Kyoung Lee, Paula Caspão, Raimund Hoghe, Sara Graça
translation José Maria Vieira Mendes, Patrícia Silva, Joana Frazão, Sara Godinho
revision Pedro Cerejo
transcript Cyriaque Villemaux
editing, production and distribution Cyriaque Villemaux
website Sara Orsi
support Atelier-Museu Júlio Pomar, Linha de Fuga, Devir Capa
acknowledgements Luca Giacomo Schulte, Ricardo Valentim, Stephanie Earle

photo Gim Ikhyun

COREIA #5
launch of issue #5 of the newspaper Korea
performance ‘Ehera Noara’ (2020) by South Korean artist Hwayeon Nam, danced by Ji-hye Chung
presentation of the film ‘Against Waves’

Coreia is an artistic, critical and discursive editorial project about the arts in general, based on an umbilical relationship with dance, concerned with disseminating various formats such as scores, manifestos, interviews, chronicles, essays, criticism and reflections in Portuguese. The newspaper has a biannual circulation of 3,000 copies and is distributed free of charge throughout the country. Issue #5 features contributions from Alice Dusapin & Christophe Wavelet, Anna Halprin, Bruno Zhu, Dani Issler, Gaya Medeiros, Henrique Neves & Sara Wookey, Hwayeon Nam, Leandro Souza, Leticia Skrycky, Min Kyoung Lee, Paula Caspão, Raimund Hoghe and Sara Graça. Presented by its editor, João dos Santos Martins, the launch will be accompanied by a screening of the film Against Waves and the performance Ehera Noara by South Korean artist Hwayeon Nam, performed by Ji Hye Chung, activating the archive of one of the forerunners of Korean modern dance, Choi Seung Hee.

Gil Mendo
Very rarely is unanimity desirable and not exaggerated.
But this is not always the case.
Professor Gil Mendo is one of the most important people in Portuguese dance and even in the performing arts. His presence as a teacher, but also as a programmer, and even as a policy maker for this sector, was decisive for the development of Contemporary Dance in our country. Almost all of us owe him part of our journeys and CAPa is no exception, which is why, from now on, we will be naming the number one studio in that building after him.

Hwayeon Nam
lives and works in Seoul. In addition to his most recent exhibition Mind Stream (2020) at the Art Sonje Centre, he has held other solo exhibitions such as Abdominal Routes (Kunsthal Aarhus, 2019), Imjingawa (Audio Visual Pavilion, 2017) and Time Mechanics (Arko Art Center, 2015). Hwayeon Nam represented the Republic of Korea at the Korean Pavilion of the 58th Venice Biennale with siren eun young jung and Jane Jin Kaisen in 2019. He has participated in group exhibitions such as Reenacting History (National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, 2017), All the World’s Future (56th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, 2015), and Nouvelle Vague-Memorial Park (Palais de Tokyo, 2013). He has also realised several performance works including Orbital Studies (2018) at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art – Seoul.

Ji Hye Chung
She has collaborated with artists from various fields in the Republic of Korea and Europe through choreographies and performances. She is interested in the paradox that arises when conflicting concepts coexist within social and personal issues, and in expanding what can be communicated through the work by focusing on movement. Her recent choreographic work includes ‘Open Letter’ (2020), ‘Air Becomes Ears, Ears Become Eyes’ (2020), ‘Untitled’ (2018), and ‘All About Memory’ (2018). Recent performances include ‘DDR’ (2020, Lyon Eun Kwon), ‘Body Landscape’ (2020, Jung-sun Kim x Jae-lee Kim), ‘Ehera Noara’ (2020, Hwayeon Nam), ‘Postcards from Vietnam’ (2020, Raimund Hoghe).

João dos Santos Martins
(Santarém, 1989) is an artist whose work encompasses forms such as choreography, curating and editing. He began studying at the Escola Superior de Dança (Lisbon) and P.A.R.T.S. (Brussels), and did a master’s degree between e.x.er.c.e (Montpellier) and the Institute for Applied Theatre Studies (Giessen). Since 2008, he has articulated his practice between producing plays and collaborating as a dancer with authors such as Ana Rita Teodoro, Eszter Salamon, Moriah Evans and Xavier Le Roy. His works are usually developed together with other artists, as in Antropocenas (2017), with Rita Natálio, and Onde Está o Casaco? (2018), with Cyriaque Villemaux and Ana Jotta. His interest in the genealogies of dance history, transmission processes and the alliance between practice and discourse led him to create, with Ana Bigotte Vieira, a device for the collective mapping of dance in Portugal – Para Uma Timeline a Haver; and to found a biannual journal – Coreia – dedicated to the arts and artists.