Doryun Chong (Associate Curator at Museum of Modern Art, New York)
 
 1) Art in Korea in 2005
The first text Chong presented was Art in Korea in 2005, which looked at the art scene in Korea in year 2005 from a broader perspective. This text, which was presented at Venice Biennale, observed Korean art from the perspective of a curator from outside, taking into consider not only Koreans as its readers but also an international audience.
 
 2) Text on Artist: On Minouk Lim, Huang Yong Ping, and Hague Yang
Chong stated that the most important role for the curator is the conversational abilities, and stressed that writing on an artist itself signifies collaborating with the artist. Writing about an artist involves a process of understanding, analyzing and studying the works of an artist. Chong explained that in conversations and exchanges of ideas with the artist, the curator can learn or even unlearn things that have never entered one’s realm of interests. Written in such context is “I’d Rather Not”, a text about Minouk Lim, published in Art in Culture magazine. The text on Huang Yong Ping was written in a form of the dictionary, which tried to grasp the trajectories of the artist’s illogical thoughts, and refrain from intervening in the way the viewer follows such trajectories while providing an adequate amount of information. This approach was also adopted later in writing “Mini-Dictionary for Haegue Yang”.
 
3) ‘Art Historical Knowledge’ and ‘Writing’
In writing about artists as a curator, Chong drew the analogy between his art historical knowledge and the backbone. His accumulation of knowledge on Eastern and Western art untangles itself as if he were ‘unlearning’. When he writes, contexts and conditions shape the backbone of art historical knowledge like flesh, resulting in texts of ‘interpretation’.
 
4) Exhibition and Publication
While one must take into consideration the connection between exhibition and publication, such as the composition of publication and structure of exhibition, the publication must also have value as a complete form that is not subordinate to the exhibition. Therefore, the exhibition publication must have significance even when the exhibition itself is not viewed.
 
5) Writing as a Curator
The curator can respond to various environment and context through writing. Also, through writing, the curator can blur the outline of the affiliated position as well as pursue his opinion, both artistically and intellectually, from an independent position. Chong asked the participants at the workshop that, while writing with context and pretext in mind, one must resist emphasizing an objective stance or ‘egocentric interpretation’ and pay close attention to his or her own honest and faithful voice.