Yeonu Ju deals with audiovisual media with an interest in discovering new order in ambiguous social perceptions. Focusing on the inseparable relationship between image and sound, she composes narratives with non-verbal elements and pursues the simultaneous and organic unity of content and form. Her works have been shown at museums, galleries, and festivals. She lives and works in Seoul.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS / SCREENINGS / EVENTS
2023 20th Experimental Film & Video Festival In Seoul, Seoul, Korea
2023 46th Kortfilmfestivalen, Grimstad, Norway
2021 2020 Athens International Film and Video Festival, Ohio, US
2020 Competition #2, Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris, Paris, France
2020 Camden International Film Festival, Maine, US
2020 Open City Documentary Festival, London, UK
2020 EX-NOW 5, Experimental Film & Video Festival In Seoul, Seoul, Korea
2020 That was the week that was, Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Hawick, UK
2020 Virtual Pool(event series online), Microscope gallery, New York, US
2019 Alternative Film/Video, Novi Beograd, Serbia
2019 Everything About Us Now Is Rock, CINEMAFORUM, Warsaw, Poland
2019 space cell screening program, space cell, Seoul, Korea
2018 OVNi(Objectif Vidéo Nice) Video Art Festival, Hotel Windsor, Nice, France
2018 Exhibition of Exhibition of Exhibition, Cecil theatre, Seoul, Korea
2017 Datapack, Perform 2017, Hoard Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2017 ULTRA Cinema, Mexico
2017 Sogang Media Festival, CGV Sinchon, Seoul, Korea
2017 Falling in JeonJu 2017, Jiff Theque, JeonuJu, Korea
2017 Haverhill Experimental Film Festival, Massachusetts, US
2017 During the Play, INSA Artspace, Seoul, Korea
2017 Video Portrait, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
2017 Korean Competition for Shorts, JeonJu International Film Festival, JeonJu, Korea
2017 Experiments in Cinema, Albuquerque, US
2017 Mediating The Machine, Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival, Hawick, UK
OTHER PROJECTS
2023 #urban memories ‘sound walk’, 3th Space - An expert training course of SSAC, Bukchang-dong, Seoul, Korea
2023 Anyang's new growth industry, it's golden time right now, commissioned project, Anyang, Korea
2022 Listen to India, Video Art of Indiaroad’s Concert, The Goyang Cultural Foundation, Goyang, Korea
2022 Road to Indiaroad, Indiaroad, Music Video
2020 The Near, audio project, online
2019 Poonglim Dabang, Video Art of Theatrical performance, Egg and Nucleus Theater, Seoul, Korea
2019 How Plants Grow, AkKe, Music Video
2018 Blue, AkKe, Music Video
GRANTS / AWARDS
2022 Art Collabo Festival, company Bomm, Arts Council Korea
2020 Online Media Grant Art Must Go On, Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, Korea
2020 International Short Award Nominee, Open City Documentary Festival, London, UK
2020 Arko Young Artist Grant, Arts Council Korea, Korea
2020 The first selection of Various secrets for artists to deal with disasters Grant, Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, Korea
2019 List of Significant Achievements Award, Alternative Film/Video, Novi Beograd, Serbia
2017 2nd Prize, Haverhill Experimental Film Festival, Massachusetts, US
PUBLICATIONS / EXHIBITION CATALOGUES / PAPERS
GROUP EXHIBITIONS / SCREENINGS / EVENTS
2023 20th Experimental Film & Video Festival In Seoul, Seoul, Korea
2023 46th Kortfilmfestivalen, Grimstad, Norway
2021 2020 Athens International Film and Video Festival, Ohio, US
2020 Competition #2, Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris, Paris, France
2020 Camden International Film Festival, Maine, US
2020 Open City Documentary Festival, London, UK
2020 EX-NOW 5, Experimental Film & Video Festival In Seoul, Seoul, Korea
2020 That was the week that was, Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Hawick, UK
2020 Virtual Pool(event series online), Microscope gallery, New York, US
2019 Alternative Film/Video, Novi Beograd, Serbia
2019 Everything About Us Now Is Rock, CINEMAFORUM, Warsaw, Poland
2019 space cell screening program, space cell, Seoul, Korea
2018 OVNi(Objectif Vidéo Nice) Video Art Festival, Hotel Windsor, Nice, France
2018 Exhibition of Exhibition of Exhibition, Cecil theatre, Seoul, Korea
2017 Datapack, Perform 2017, Hoard Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2017 ULTRA Cinema, Mexico
2017 Sogang Media Festival, CGV Sinchon, Seoul, Korea
2017 Falling in JeonJu 2017, Jiff Theque, JeonuJu, Korea
2017 Haverhill Experimental Film Festival, Massachusetts, US
2017 During the Play, INSA Artspace, Seoul, Korea
2017 Video Portrait, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
2017 Korean Competition for Shorts, JeonJu International Film Festival, JeonJu, Korea
2017 Experiments in Cinema, Albuquerque, US
2017 Mediating The Machine, Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival, Hawick, UK
OTHER PROJECTS
2023 #urban memories ‘sound walk’, 3th Space - An expert training course of SSAC, Bukchang-dong, Seoul, Korea
2023 Anyang's new growth industry, it's golden time right now, commissioned project, Anyang, Korea
2022 Listen to India, Video Art of Indiaroad’s Concert, The Goyang Cultural Foundation, Goyang, Korea
2022 Road to Indiaroad, Indiaroad, Music Video
2020 The Near, audio project, online
2019 Poonglim Dabang, Video Art of Theatrical performance, Egg and Nucleus Theater, Seoul, Korea
2019 How Plants Grow, AkKe, Music Video
2018 Blue, AkKe, Music Video
GRANTS / AWARDS
2022 Art Collabo Festival, company Bomm, Arts Council Korea
2020 Online Media Grant Art Must Go On, Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, Korea
2020 International Short Award Nominee, Open City Documentary Festival, London, UK
2020 Arko Young Artist Grant, Arts Council Korea, Korea
2020 The first selection of Various secrets for artists to deal with disasters Grant, Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, Korea
2019 List of Significant Achievements Award, Alternative Film/Video, Novi Beograd, Serbia
2017 2nd Prize, Haverhill Experimental Film Festival, Massachusetts, US
PUBLICATIONS / EXHIBITION CATALOGUES / PAPERS
2021
Neil Young, Yeonu Ju's Belief (the first "scene" from A Crowd), ‘Best Scenes in Korean Films 2000-2020’, Archive Prism #5(Review on Korean Cinema 2000-2020), Korean Film Archive, p. 175 (pdf)
2019
Yeonu Ju, Junho Oh, The Return of Artisan, Workshop and Object: the Discourse and Practice of Post-Digital and Maker Culture, Journal of Korean Society of Media & Arts Vol.17, No.1, pp.5-25
2017
2017
2017
Jihyeon Song ed., #Scene 4, During the play, INSA Artspace: Arts Council Korea
Total Museum Press, Video Portrait, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, pp. 218-227 / EN ver.
Total Museum Press, Video Portrait, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, pp. 218-227 / EN ver.
2015
Yeonu Ju, Junho Oh, Relationship Between the Notion of Authenticity and Conservation Strategy in Time-based Media Art: Focused on Variable Media Network and Matters in Media Art, KOREA SCIENCE & ART FORUM Vol.21, pp.383-396
PART TIME LECTURES
2019-2022
(PART TIME LECTURES) Cultural Contents Making Practice and so on, B.A. Cultutal Contents, KyungSung University, Busan, Korea
2018
(PART TIME LECTURES) Storytelling Workshop, B.A. Art & Technology, Sogang University, Seoul, Korea
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