October 15 — November 15, 2021
Total Museum of Contemporary Art (8, Pyeongchang 32-gil, Jongno-gu, Seoul)
11am — 6pm  (with no closed days)
[Admission] General Admission 5,000 | Children, Youths, Group 3,000

Thomas consists of an exhibition, publication, and discussions. This composition includes a three-part structure of artist, curator, and critic. Within that framework, there is mutual disruption among three things that hitherto existed robustly as their own separate field: artwork, curation, and criticism. For example, the artist and curator cooperation on all of the planning efforts of the exhibition. This was based on the determination that curating is essentially a form of practice that cannot exist independently as the curator’s own authorship. Constructed through the sharing of questions between artist and curator, the curation was transformed into “Thomas,” an imaginary critic who exists only through the written word, without voice or form. Criticism here is a material and form invoked as artistic creation, artistic planning, and artistic practice. The artworks on view in the exhibition are Min Oh’s time-based installations Polyphony of Polyphony(2021) and 412356(2020). The artwork here is exclusively the artist’s, something that cannot be shared with the curator or critic, fully occupying all of the elements questioned within the exhibition/publication/discussions: the materials, forms, composition, and sense of art. In addition, art researchers were actively invited to provide critiques. Questions were exchanged among the invited researchers, the artist, and the curator. Through these questions, we hope that someone else can take part in wrestling with the questions, “What is art?” and “What sort of doubt does art require?” The invited researchers’ voices that we hear in the gallery will repeatedly harmonize and clash with the inaudible voice of Thomas. Though there are questions, there can be no right answers; though the discussion has a beginning, it can never end.
What sort of doubt does art require today?
                                                                                                        Translation : Colin Mouat

__Concept and Composition
Suzy Park, Min Oh

__Art works
Min Oh

__Text and Discussion
Sooyoung Nam, Yeasul Shin, Seonryeong Cho, Harry C. H. Choi

__Publication
Workroom Specter

__Graphic design
Sulki & Min

__Sound design
Chosun Hong

__Text excerpt video
Eunil Jo

__Space
Saeroum Innovation

__Equipment installation
Multitech

__Equipment support
ONIOFF

__Cooperation
Total Museum of Contemporary Art

__With the support of
Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, Arts Council Korea