As part of the public program accompanying the ongoing exhibition Adrián Villar Rojas: The Language of the Enemy, the Art Sonje Center presents an online lecture by Professor Woo Jung-Ah (Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, POSTECH), entitled The History of Site-Specificity and Institutional Critique. We warmly invite your interest and participation.

*This lecture will be conducted in Korean only.
*A Zoom link will be shared via email to the Naver ID you used for registration.
*When joining the session, please make sure to set your display name to “Registrant’s Full Name (last four digits of phone number).” Participants whose names cannot be verified may not be able to attend the lecture. (Example: John Doe (1234))

About the Lecture
Contemporary art today is no longer confined to the passive act of viewing; it has evolved into a practice that critically engages with and reconfigures the power structures of space and institutions. Using Adrián Villar Rojas: The Language of the Enemy as a point of departure, this lecture explores the development of site-specific art and the history of critical interventions within art institutions. Together, we will reflect on how art has continuously raised unsettling and provocative questions within the institutional framework of the museum.

About the Speaker
Woo Jung-Ah(Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences, POSTECH)
Woo Jung-Ah holds a B.A. and M.A. in Archaeology and Art History from Seoul National University and obtained her Ph.D. in Art History from UCLA. Since 2011, she has been contributing a weekly column titled “Woo Jung-Ah’s Art Story” to Chosun Ilbo Daily Newspaper. She currently serves as a professor and the chair of POSTECH’s Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, and as well as the director of the Future Intelligence Academy. Her notable publications include The Conceptual Turn of Korean Contemporary Art. (2023), “The Antimonumental Impulse in Korean Contemporary Art” (2023), “Who’s Afraid of Postmodernism? Postmodern Polemics in Contemporary Korean Art” (2023).