it's thursday and that means our arts and culture segment is on and our culture correspondent
kimbo young is here in the studio to tell us what's trending in the arts and culture realm
so this is the man who put the word video art in the map so peg namjoon what can you tell us
about his inspiring exhibition this time well kanye you see to get to know a genius artist
one needs to delve deep into the artist's life philosophy and interest and most of the koreans
already know the name name ping namjoon or namjoon pek the pioneer of video art
but how much do we actually know about him celebrating the 90th anniversary of pig's birth
the namjoon peck art center is exploring his life and philosophy let me give our viewers a peek
the musician john lennon called this man avon rigard known as the pioneer of video art nam
jinpek was an artist who always chose a much longer journey away from familiarity and hypocrisy
celebrating the 90th anniversary of peck's birth namjoon big art center has come up
with two special exhibitions archaeology of avant-garde shows pix works along with 10
photographs featuring the scenes from peck's life traveling back from 2000 to 1964. peg
originally dreamed of being a classical composer and was heavily influenced by arnold schwarenberg
who was then seen as the ultimate avant-garde yet he also wanted to find his own artistic path
peck is remembered as an artist who always experimented and study new mediums and art
using videos satellites televisions and even lasers that is why we label him avant-garde
rehabilitation of genghis khan which won the grand prize at the venice piano in 1993 shows
visitors how pax saw himself as a nomad like the mongolians and visitors can see how much peck also
sought to make radical changes in music by having artists play violins that have been pulled out of
the water why can't there be a video synthesizer that is the question that popped up in peck's head
just like a dj mixing sounds the beg ave video synthesizer modulates colors and presents shuffled
images filmed by cameras another exhibition is a rendition of peck's music score to the symphony
for 20 rooms peck composed the score in 1961 but it could not be performed while he was alive
rather than notes or scales the score depicts 16 rooms with several instructions on a paper
he assigned various sounds objects and devices for each square
and with the help of seven contemporary artists each square has been unfolded as a viewable score
based on text instructions written on the text score each room displays music stimulating not
only the eyes and ears but also the sense of smell as visitors make their own sounds using
devices the overall sound continuously changes depending on who turns the pages of the score
and how they operate the devices the curator says perhaps that is the reason why there were only
16 squares on the paper instead of the 20 rooms mentioned in the title leaving the rest of the
symphony to be completed by its audience so you dj a little bit pogang do you yes i did
well uh we have a great piece of pangnam jun's art here at arirang so that is another valuable piece
of art that we have but what about for those of us who would like to enjoy some other exhibitions
well kanye and this whole olympic museum of art is presenting a special exhibition that combines
sports and art 35 pieces by 17 artists from 10 countries are on display showing how sportswear
can be artistic too what might catch visitors eyes are dresses made for the queen of figure skating
yoona kim by designer ithangbun a total of five of kim's dresses are on show for the very first time
the exhibition runs from the start of april until august that is actually very interesting to hear
now but we cannot leave out streaming services at this point i heard korean dramas are trending
on netflix right now that's right according to netflix a total of six korean dramas are ranked uh
in the top 10 list for non-english tv programs for the week from march 21st to 27th and interestingly
apart from the legal drama juvenile justice and zombie thriller all of us are dead the other four
are romantic comedies the drama enjoying the most popularity is business proposal a tv adaptation
of a webtoon the office blind date it had more than 30 million hours of views for this week
and 2521 starring kim teddy and forecasting love and weather were ranked second and fourth and
lastly 39 was ranked ninth on the list showing how korean romance dramas are making global
viewers hearts pound so for those of us looking to binge watch some some netflix that would be great
and such popularity might lead to you know more interest in the original webtoons itself right
that's right the original webtoon for the drama business proposal has been in the spotlight
uh after it has been turned into a drama with the viewership going by 10 times in thailand and 13
times in indonesia and taiwan so we could say the drama's popularity is shedding light upon
the webtoon as well well it's really great to see how different stories where the same story
are adapted differently across the medium and it's it's a great example for us to enjoy them
all right program thank you so much for sharing us your latest cultural updates thank you