“Society as Discovered by Contemporary Art” is the subject for the second half of 2018 for the Lecture Program 《Humanities in the Apartment Complex》, an annual lecture program operated by Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation. This lecture intends to shed light on the value of art and our society through artists’ social engagement in diverse forms. It introduces artists who bring social issues to light along with laborers and the minority, seek the role of art in healing, turn into humor the irregularities of people with vested rights, and bring the dark sides of social systems and cultures to light. They are those striving to get closer to us living in this society and our lives. We would like to examine the sides of society as spotted by them through their artworks that pose fundamental questions on contemporary values.

Every Thursday during the period of Oct. 11, 2018 (Thu) – Nov. 29, 2018 (Thu), 19:00-20:30 (Total of 8 sessions)

3F Lecture Room of Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation

Residents of Gyeonggi Province interested in culture, arts, and humanities
(50 people on a first-come first-served basis)

Session, Date, Subject, Lecturer

Session	Date	Subject	Lecturer
1	Oct. 11	Chinese artist Ai Weiwei – How to criticize the world with fine art	Park Bo-na, Artist
2	Oct. 18	Asking the meaning of nature in the contemporary era	Han Seok-hyun, Artist
3	Oct. 25	Maurizio Cattelan – Ridiculing authority and art of provocation	An Jin-guk, Art critic
4	Nov. 1	Reverse Selfie	Park Gyeong-geun, Artist
5	Nov. 8	Marlene Dumas – Portraits of those who are excluded	Yang Hyo-sil, Esthetician
6	Nov. 15	Things that flowed from a certain ‘community’ to ‘us’	Cho Ji-eun, Artist
7	Nov. 22	Banksy – a faceless artist denouncing social irregularities	Jin Whui-yeon, Art Historian
8	Nov. 29	Useful art of the neighbor, by the neighbor, and for the neighbor	Lee Mi-hwa, Artist