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Love Virus PDF Print E-mail
Seoul
Written by Michela Pilo   
Aug 03, 2006 at 08:50 PM

Online project Love Virus is one of “Paper-zines” of the blog-inspired, popular mini-homepage service in Korea called “Cyworld.” Love Virus was started in August 2004 with 8 artists from various artistic disciplines such as photography, moving image, interactive art, performance, and even painting. Love Virus is run not only as a popular art blog site, but as an organization for young artists and their fans to meet through various fun-filled offline events: first offline event “Pochangmacha” was held in a tent bar in Seoul in December 2004 and second event called ‘GoGo virus’ was organized in August 2005 while transforming a basement parking lot into a social playground. Their focus is to make unique human relations through media and art. Among 21 participating artists of Love Virus Kim Joon and Jang Woosuk will perform the art project named “Delivery.” Artist Kim Joon is one of the well-known media artists in Korea who has had solo exhibitions many times over and won art prizes on several occasions. The most recent solo exhibition was “Tattoo You” in 2005 which made a comment about underground tattoo and luxury brands as social conflict. Jang Woosuk is a performative artist who held solo exhibitions, including "I don’t know anything except love" which brought a mix and match of urban locality and love into focus. He also became a love messenger between participants in his “love me sweet” bus project, an artistic tour event for singles.

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