Getty Partners with Frieze on Art Projects Promoting PST ART
Frieze will present projects by ikkibawiKrrr in Seoul and Candice Lin in London ahead of next year's PST ART in California.
ikkibawiKrrr, Seaweed Story, 2022. Singing haenyeo, 'sea women'divers. Still: ikkibawiKrrr
Art media and art fair giant Frieze and California-based arts institution The Getty have announced two collaborations in the lead up to PST ART: 'Art & Science Collide' in September 2024.
PST ART, formerly known as Pacific Standard Time, is a large-scale arts programme that runs every six years in museums and art institutions across Southern California.
The first of these collaborations, funded by Getty grants, will coincide with the 2023 editions of Frieze Seoul (6–9 September) and Frieze London (9–11 October).
Korean visual research collective ikkibawiKrrr will present a new video and interactive performance at Frieze Seoul. Both works will expand on an earlier work, Seaweed Story (2022) exploring the haenyeo (sea women), a community of female divers on Jeju Island, South Korea.
In the video work ikkibawiKrrr worked closely with the haenyeo exploring their relationship with the marine ecosystem, from which they sustainably harvest seaweed and sea food for a living. This is also explored in the performance titled Flavors of the Sea (2023).
At Frieze London, Los Angeles-based artist Candice Lin will create large-scale indigo-dyed kites which will be displayed at the fair and flown by performers in the Regent's Park.
The shape of the traditional Korean fighting kites will allude to the practice of castration. —[O]
