This Is Not Just Local: Tactical Practices

Artists: Artspace Youngjumansion, Bac Jungwon, Cheong Jinyun, F5, Gang Moonsick, Hugh Watt, Inoue Rie, James Benning, Jeon ji, Julia Lohmann & Kim Kayoung, Jung Jae-hoon, Jung Yunsun, Kang Woo-Young, Kim Dohee, Kim Eung-su, Kim Gemini, Kim Jeesoo, Kim Ji-gon, Kim Kyunghwa, Kim Kyung-man, Kim Su-jeong, Kim Wonjin, Kim Young-jo, Lee Hanbum, Lee Yeongjun, Lim Hyunjeong, Localtouch, Mackerel Safranski, Mauro Herce, Oda Kaori, Oh Minwook, Paik Jongkwan, Park Ji-sun, Park Sangeun, Seo Minjeong, Sohn Kooyong, Sonia Ladidá, Taiki Sakpisit, Tiffany Chung, Wang Dukkyoung, WOMAN OPEN TECH LAB, Yeo Sanghee, Yoon Ji-hye, Yu Chaejung

Curator: Kim Sosul

Curatorial Committee: Kim Sosul (Busan MoCA) Kim Sujeong · Yi Bongmi (Artspace Youngjumansion) Kim Eunjoo (Geoje Sumdo) NACCA (Nayuta) Park Mira · Changpa (Lab C) Oh Minwook (Busan Independent Film Association) Choi Seung-Hyun (Independent curator)

These days, regions are said to be threatened with destruction. This exhibition focuses on the hierarchies at play in the use of words like “region” and “local,” as well as the dynamics behind the desire to divide things into a center and a periphery, presenting work in terms of “locality” as an alternative that harbors more multifaceted meanings. Here, locality is observed beyond superficial analyses driven by the state-centered paradigm. Going beyond the geographic sense of “local,” we examine the footsteps people leave behind as evidence of us living in the present day.

The exhibition employs a variety of tactics to share the everyday practices that individuals have adopted, starting with the very ground on which we stand. Words like “strategy” and “tactics” are often associated with warfare, but explained here in ways that differ from their conventional usage. A strategy is essentially a plan exerted by a subject with a desire for power. A tactic, in contrast, is an approach that conforms to existing institutions and discourses while also taking advantage of their gaps and blind spots. It refers to acts of departure and subversion—reorienting assigned cultural structures, the absence of inherent positions, and techniques used by the weak to triumph over the strong. When presenting experience, encounters, and solidarity as forms of shared practice, we cannot limit this to any one realm.

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