The Low Place — Minji Kim(Unknown Kim)

Title: The Low Place
Place: Group Exhibition <Green Shivering>, Busan Museum of Contemporary Art, South Korea
Date: 12/4/2025 - 15/6/2025
Format: Exhibiton and performance

Busan MoCA Performing Arts: Green Shivering is the Busan Museum of Contemporary Art’s new initiative exploring the roles and potentialities of contemporary art. Focusing on the diversity of performing arts, this exhibition presents works of overlapping media such as installation, video, performance, and sound art. It also encourages new perspectives on the complex layers and significance of ecology—particularly forests—taking Eulsukdo Island as its axis.
The philosopher and ecological theorist Timothy Morton (b. 1968) offers intriguing insights into contemporary times in his book Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology After the End of the World. He states that “there occurs a crazy arms race between what we know and what is,” and we have now entered “the age of asymmetry.” This suggests that the long-held belief in anthropocentric thinking as a guiding force toward a seamless future is no longer valid. Morton’s discussion prompts a renewed reflection on the complex entanglements between humans and nonhumans, as well as the uncertainties of the future.
In this exhibition, five artists from Korea and abroad—Kwak Sojin, Kim Unknown, Lee Jade Sujin, Im Goeun, and Heiner Goebbels—reinterpret contemporary ecologies through their artistic practices, responding to questions about an uncertain future. Their exploration of Eulsukdo Island, the site of the Busan Museum of Contemporary Art, extends beyond the local environment and towards a global ecological sensibility. Through experiences that shift between broad and minute perspectives and obfuscate the boundaries of reality and imagination, this exhibition challenges viewers to reconsider their presupposed beliefs.
Starting with the opening performance, the exhibition will present various related performances and workshops from May to early June, offering visitors diverse ways of approaching the themes in the exhibition.
* Exhibition text: Busan Museum of Contemporary Art

<Green Shivering>

Organised by: Busan Museum of Contemporary Art

Co-curated and supported by: National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea

Photo: Sindae Kang

<The Low Place>

Production: Noah Craft and Hosu Lee

<Performance: Barnacle Song>

Collaboration: Motion Architect