Clik | Edition 14 | November 2021.
Clik | Edition 14 | November 2021.
We are delighted to connect with you virtually at the click of a button! We invite you to join us, whenever you are ready, from wherever you are, on myriad creative journeys, where with valued partners in India and in Korea, we explore new pathways and experiences, re-visit the magic of past performances and exciting exhibitions or present those newly imagined from creation to reception and distribution on digital platforms. In this edition, through virtual presentations and specially commissioned exhibitions, we present evocative journeys and sensory experiences that are moored in local culture but travel the world to resonate with audiences worldwide!
We invite you to Prism, InKo Centre's virtual gallery, a boundless space to effectively present artistic intent and to connect with audiences in the most meaningful and sensorial manner possible. It is envisaged as an online platform for representation, refraction and reflection of creative ideas and expressions by artists from India and Korea. View specially commissioned exhibitions and other interactions in this virtual space.
We hope, with this e-digest, to stay meaningfully connected with you, to discover and engage with the unique, local characteristics as well as the shared, global dimensions of the dynamic, ongoing intercultural dialogue between India and Korea.
Dance on Film is a specially curated series of contemporary dance projects developed by the Korean National Contemporary Dance Company. The series, co-presented by InKo Centre and the Korea National Contemporary Dance Company, will comprise a total of 5 films, varied in theme and technique, to present some of the most exciting choreographers and dancers in Korea today. With the pandemic looming large, the films provide a window to the resilience of the artists in these unprecedented times, acknowledges the march of technology and the blurring of the real and the virtual and examines deeper fundamental questions of co-existence between Man and Nature and of the possibility of transformation and resurgence through art.
In Episode 4 of this series, we present Three Angles is a dance film that blends music, dance and space.
Choreographers: Dancers Ku Eunhye, Lee Seiseung, Lee Insoo
Music: Lee Ilwoo
Three Angles is a dance film that blends music, dance and space. Lee Ilwoo from the band Jambinai presents traditional music combined with free jazz, post-rock, punk and metal.
To view Three Angles, click on www.inkocentre.org/Virtual_Connect_Cultural_Collaborations.html on Friday, 5 November 2021 at 6.00 p.m. IST.
The link to view the film, will be accessible until Thursday, 11 November 2021.
Dance on Film
is presented in association with
Korea National Contemporary Dance Company
With Nature as their musical theme, the female Korean folk group Duobud presents music of comfort and healing with traditional percussion and gayageum melodies.
The combination of percussion and string highlights the contrast between percussive expressions of direct and explosive energies and lyrical string melodies. The percussion is so delicate that one’s breath can be heard while the Korean harp is played with a boldness reminiscent of electronic sounds. The resultant music, uniquely expands the expressive realms of both percussive and melodic instruments.
Sora Kim (Multi-Percussion : Janggu, Jing, Yanggeum, Cymbal)
Jeongup Nongak, Jeollabuk-do Province Intangible Cultural asset no: 7-2
2018 WOMEX Official Showcase Artist
Jihye Lim (Gayageum)
Member of Korean Gayageum Players Association
Music Director of Court Dance ‘Chunangmu’ Association
We are delighted this year to virtually present Duobud to continue to share qualitative examples of Korean contemporary music that presents traditional instrumentation with a contemporary twist. Duobud was all set to tour India, in association with local partners but the exigencies of the present moment has meant that the performance will now be presented and viewed virtually. We thank our local partners in India - The Royal Opera House, Mumbai, Rajagiri Centre for Business Studies, Kochi, The Korean Arts and Cultural Centre, Guntur and The Honorary Consulate General of the Republic of Korea in Hyderabad, for their support in promoting the virtual presentation of Duobud via their respective social media handles.
Duobud premieres on https://www.youtube.com/user/InKoCentre on Friday, 12 November 2021 at 6.00 p.m. IST.
The link to view the performance, will be accessible until Wednesday, 24 November 2021.
Duobud is presented in association with
With support from:
The Royal Opera House, Mumbai.
Rajagiri Centre for Business Studies, Kochi.
The Korean Arts and Cultural Centre, Guntur.
The Honorary Consulate General of the Republic of Korea in Hyderabad.
K-Sori, is an episodic series presented in association with Lotte Foundation, Noreum Machi and Nowpan Korea, to showcase emergent young musicians from Korea who provide a contemporary twist to traditional instrumentation and compositions. The series presents select winners of the annual Chulsapyo competition that began in 2015 in Korea to provide scholarships to high school and college students to encourage them to study gugak (traditional Korean music) and create qualitative compositions using traditional Korean instruments. The series celebrates the spitit of this initiative which aims to nurture, preserve and promote traditional Korean music amongst young musicians and a contemporary audience, both in Korea and around the world.
Episode 3 - Off-Road & Neo folk music band BADI
Off-Road, comprises traditional music performers Jang Jihun, Choi Yeri and Kim Haerin, who express hope to keep at bay, feelings of fear and loneliness while traversing the vast wilderness and unfamiliar terrain, along rough and unpaved roads. They aim to create a unique musical landscape, by incorporating a variety of techniques based on traditional musical language and styles that correspond to contemporary sentiments.
"A Wanderer" means "the one who wanders around without a fixed place." This piece represents everyone’s respective life graphs. People always wander within the larger framework of life and fear and hope always coexist.
Jang Jihun – Janggu (hourglass-shaped drum) (장구), Yanggeum (양금)
Choi Yeri – Haegeum (2-string bowed lute) (해금)
Kim Haerin – Geomungo (6-string zither) (거문고)
Badi means superlative sori (music) that a student learns and refines under the guidance of his/her teacher. The group Badi is a music band who reinterpret traditional folk music, which is considered rather difficult to understand. Since their inception, they have composed and arranged their oeuvre to present a musical vocabulary that is refreshing and unique.
Badi has always debated about what melody and songs accurately captured the lives of the people in days when folk music was popular. Badi reinterprets the values of the past from the point of view and in order to retrospect with their music. This song was created using the characteristics of the menari-tori (melodic mode) as a reference to Jisinbapgi (a village ritual) in Gyeongsang-do. Jisinbapgi is a ritual in performed at the beginning of the lunar calendar with people in the village praying for peace, health, good harvests and blessings for the community at large. Through this piece, Badi wishes all its listeners, the best for the future.
Jang Juyoung - Janggu (hourglass-shaped drum) (장구), Percussion (퍼커션)
Jeong Seonkyum - Ajaeng (bowed zither) (아쟁)
Lee Changhee - Percussion (퍼커션)
Cho Heekyu - Haegeum (2-string bowed lute) (해금)
Hwang Haneol - Geomungo (6-string zither) (거문고)
Kim Yeongsan - Daegeum (대금)
For two scintillating performances in Episode 3 of this series, tune in to https://www.youtube.com/user/InKoCentre on Friday, 19 November 2021 at 6.00 p.m. IST.
The link to view the performances, will be accessible until Sunday, 19 December 2021.
The K-Sori series is presented in association with
Emerging Canvas is an annual exhibition series, presented in India and in Korea respectively, in association with the Indian Art Museum in Seoul, to showcase the work of talented, emerging young artists from both countries. In the seventh edition of this series, we present dynamic and multi-dimensional work by 22 young artists - 11 from Korea and 11 from India - their burgeoning talent obvious and their potential unmistakable. This year, with physical galleries closed due to the pandemic, the exhibition will be presented online at Prism, InKo Centre's virtual gallery.
The exhibition showcases the dynamic, multi-dimensional work of 22 young painters, from Korea and India. The Korean section is curated by Ms Cupid Lee, from Seoul, Korea and the Indian section is curated by Ms Vaishnavi Ramanathan, from Chennai, India.
Click on www.inkocentre.org/Virtual_Connect_Infotainment.html to view this exhibition at Prism - InKo Centre's virtual gallery, on Thursday, 25 November 2021 at 6.00 p.m. IST.
The exhibition will be on view until Friday, 7 January 2022.
is presented in association with
Annyeong Station, is a newly initiated platform in our infotainment section, for conversation, interaction and exchange. With a focus on Korean popular culture, this online space will include three segments:
K-factor: with freewheeling discussions, fun facts, demos and personalised conversations, with invited guests and K-enthusiasts, on K-pop, food, drama and fashion.
K-lounge: with curated interactions with industry specialists and influencers.
K-learn: which offers specially crafted, short hobby courses to connect through interlocking examples of Hallyu or the Korean Wave, with representative words, phrases and sentences of the Korean language.
Episode 2 brings together a stellar panel ! In the second episode of K-lounge titled Jjang, we present Puja Talwar, Executive Editor, Lifestyle and Entertainment, Good Times, in conversation with Priyamani, acclaimed, pan-Indian National Award-winning actor, Harneet Singh, television writer and former journalist, Dipal Mehta, an entrepreneur, counsellor, martial arts expert and Culture Tourism Ambassador who has worked in the K-drama industry and Tracy Shilsi, former journalist and writer who is an avowed K-drama fan. Join us for a sparkling conversation!
To join this conversation, click on www.inkocentre.org/Virtual_Connect_Infotainment.html on Saturday, 27 November 2021 at 6.00 p.m. IST.