By Sasa [44] feat. Sulki & Min
Text in English and Korean
ISBN 978–89–93061–26–0
Broadsheet, 840 x 560 mm when unfolded; board, 210 x 280 mm
10,000 KRW
2011
Published to accompany Sasa [44]’s installation 107 Numbers and 4 Words for the exhibition Space Study at Plateau, Seoul, 5 May – 10 July 2011

The broadsheet was originally meant to supplement Sasa [44]’s installation, which would have otherwise remained purely enigmatic. As a publication on its own right, it shows some interesting facts about the year 1999 – the facts that the artist highlighted by focusing on related numbers (and some words).

By Geumhyung Jeong, Chungwoo Lee and Jackson Hong
Text in English and Korean by Chungwoo Lee
ISBN 978-89-93061-25-3
Saddle-stitched, 176 x 244 mm, 64 pp
20,000 KRW
2010

This book documents Technical Problem by Geumhyung Jeong, Chungwoo Lee and Jackson Hong, performed at Arko Arts Theater, Seoul, as part of the Festival Bo:m 2010. The performance was a collaboration between the designer-artist Jackson Hong, who selected and supplied various equipments as ‘props’ for the piece; the performer Geumhyung Jeong, who tried an ‘interplay’ with the inert objects onstage; and the writer Chungwoo Lee, who initiated the project and introduced the two artists to each other. The book starts from the middle: as a book reversed inside-out, having its ‘cover’ inside, the structure suggests the non-narrative nature of the performance. The pages alternate between the documentation photographs and the text, which includes a revealing transcription of the artists’ talk after the second and last performance on 24 April 2010.

By Lee Duegyoung
Text in English and Korean by Lim Geun-jun and Rhee Z-won
ISBN 978-89-93061-24-6
Flapped paperback, 180 x 240 mm, 176 pp; supplement, saddle-stitched, 120 x 180 mm, 16 pp
50,000 KRW
2010

This book presents Lee Duegyoung’s photography, Two Faces, which is ‘a panoramic picture of the Hangang riverside landscape, composed of about 13,000 photographs Lee took for four days on several boats (cleaning boat, cruise boat, municipal boat), traveling the 48 km waterway of the Hangang from the upper region of Misa-ri, Gyeonggi-do, passing through Seoul, all the way down to Gimpo area, Gyeonggi-do’. Conceptually, Two Faces is a combination of two books: one with the north side view and the other the south side. The book is constructed as if the two books are put together bottom-to-bottom, so that the two views from the Hangang correspond to each other geographically. A short, personal essay by Rhee Z-won, reflecting the modern history of the Hangang, is included as a supplement.

By Jaye Rhee
Text in English by Carol Becker, Edwin Ramoran, Sara Reisman, and Raúl Zamudio
ISBN 978-89-93061-23-9
Sewn hardback, 225 x 305 mm, 120 pp
40,000 KRW
2010

Jaye Rhee is a New York-based artist who regularly exhibits work at various international venues. Imageless is Rhee’s first monograph, which surveys her work encompassing video, performance, photography, and installation. The presentation of the body of work is punctuated by four essays: Carol Becker on the ‘Real Fake’; Raúl Zamudio on the ‘Art in Motion’; Sara Reisman on the ‘Performed and Crafted’; and Edwin Ramoran on one of Rhee’s projects, Bambi.

By Sasa [44]
Text in Spanish, English, Japanese, German, Korean, Dutch, Czech and Hebrew
ISBN 978-89-93061-20-8
Newspaper, 394 x 545 mm, 4 pp
Freely available at the exhibition Remind (Youngeun Museum of Contempo­rary Art, Gwangju, Gyeonggi, South Korea, May 1 – July 11, 2010)
5,000 KRW after July 11, 2010
2010
Flip through

In 2009, Sasa[44] consumed 86 bowls of seolleongtang, 35 bowls of jajangmyeon, made 206 transactions with his public transport card, saw 7 movies at cinemas in Seoul, purchased 455 books from Kyobo bookstore, made 909 calls from his mobile phone, made 302 attendance records with the punch clock at his studio, and had 49 people in front of him in queues at banks, etc.

The detailed information is given in eight different languages: those primarily spoken in the eight countries in which Sasa [44] has ever exhibited in the past decade.

By MeeNa Park
Text in English and Korean by Sung Won Kim
Jointly published with Kukje Gallery, Seoul
ISBN 978-89-93061-19-2
Coil-bound, 210 x 297 mm, 88 pp
20,000 KRW
2010

Catalogue for MeeNa Park’s solo exhibition, ‘BCGKMRY’, at Kukje Gallery, Seoul, 2010.

By Sasa [44]
Text in English
ISBN 978-89-93061-17-8
Saddle-stitched with cover, 257 x 364 mm, 72 pp
30,000 KRW
2010

This publication is a part of Sasa [44]’s ongoing project Our Spot, which involves traveling to different cities following other people’s instructions. ‘Sasa [44] from Seoul traveled to Tokyo in February 2009 to spend a few days following instructions given by his friend MeeNa Park as closely as possible.’ See also Sasa [44]’s Our Spot: New York, 2006.

By SMSM
Text in English and Korean by Hong-hee Kim, Geun-jun Lim and Kyung-hwan Yeo
Jointly published with Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan
ISBN 978-89-93061-18-5
Flapped paperback, 180 x 240 mm, 144 pp
Not for sale
2009

Published to document The Power of Color, the Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art Handspan Gallery Health Center Project, 2009, by the collective SMSM: Sasa [44], MeeNa Park, and Sulki & Min. The Health Center Project, which was inspired by the ‘color therapy’ theory of Dr. Morton Walker, is documented in the first 32 pages with essays by Hong-hee Kim, Geun-jun Lim and Kyung-hwan Yeo. The rest of the book is made simply of different kinds of colored paper, with no information except brief quotations from Dr. Walker’s book The Power of Color (1991) on the alleged physiological effects of each color: try to feel the power for yourself! The cover pays homage to both Dr. Walker’s book and Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon (1973).

By Lee Duegyoung
Text in English and Korean by Hae-chun Park, Duegyoun Lee
ISBN 978-89-93061-16-1
Folded and unbound, 210 x 268 mm, 24 pp
12,000 KRW
2009

This book was published to accompany Duegyoung Lee’s solo exhibition, ‘Teheran’, at the Gallery D+, Korea Design Foundation, Seoul, 2009. The photographer Duegyoung Lee has been methodically documenting urban spaces, and for this exhibition he took a series of aerial photographs of Teheran Street in Seoul, and combined them to a very long, single photograph. In this catalogue, the image is divided to six parts, each printed over two pages with the introductory essay and other information printed on the back. The book is left unbound, so the reader can rearrange the sheets to reconstruct the entire photographs.

By Sasa [44], Sulki & Min
Text in Korean, with introduction in Korean and English
Jointly published with Arts Council Korea, Seoul
ISBN 978-89-93061-15-4
Cased in cloth, 120 x 180 mm, 216 pp
30,000 KRW [out of print]
2009

This book was conceived in collaboration with Sasa [44] and produced as a contribution to ‘100 Daehangro’, Arko Art Center, Seoul, 22 May – 5 July 2009. The following is an excerpt from the book.

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The text contained in this book consists of greeting messages from the catalogues published for the exhibitions at the Arko Art Center, Arts Council Korea, during the last three decades. In transcribing the published texts, current Korean orthography has been ignored in favour of fidelity. Any errors and typos in the original texts, unless critically misleading, have been kept without correction. While the best effort has been made for accurate transcription, no claim is made for its ultimate perfection. The sources are credited in the last pages of this book. Thank you very much.