The Indie Art Hall Gong in Yangpyeong-dong, Seoul, has been hosting a horror-themed exhibition that aims to uncover and take a closer look at the fears in our society through art every summer. In 2019, at the initial planning stage, we aimed to shed light on the crisis of diseases and public health hygiene that could escalate to such disastrous levels. We wanted to explore these issues through art and examine the diverse perspectives and structures within society that deal with “disease.”

In 2020, what we used to call Wuhan pneumonia was named COVID-19. It swept through China, Korea, and Europe, spreading globally, leading to the World Health Organization declaring it a pandemic. Observing this situation felt almost prophetic. Artists who were on board approached as real “art disease researchers,” collectively experiencing the actual fear of a disease through the “COVID-19 crisis.”

In particular, the performance series that took place in Seoul, South Korea, in 2020 under the special circumstances of the pandemic was an artistic activity in which young artists attempted to overcome their frustrations and fears in response to the changing circumstances of the time.

Earthian Center for
Disease Control & Prevention
1-1 _ Art for Citizens Exhausted
by COVID-19
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Control & Prevention>
1-2 _ How to make artist turned into a
researcher “visible”
1-3 Art Disease Research Report
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Exhibition Floor Plan
Covid19 Questionnaire
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[2] _ Art Disease Research Report
2-1 _ Sir, what’s the meaning of
adjustment?
- Eusun Ko
2-2 _ A Study on Warmhearted Management
Strategies Utilizing Disc Patients
Exhausted in Body and Mind
- Chanwoo Kim
2-3 _ The research laboratory of
the eminent authority Gyunghwa Roh
on Mwoji-mwoji Disease
- Gyunghwa Roh
2-4 _ Research on Treatment for Side
Effects of Zaro Aga by Patients
Go-Back Gwang
- Chulho Park
2-5 _ ~In Need of Updates~ HIV/AIDS
Pocket Stop Salchingu
- Salchingu(Seungwook Yang, Huh Ho)
2-6 _ Aloha Earth Burnout Bakery Branch 1
- Sohyun Son
2-7 _ Frontal Lobe Soothing
- Jaerin Son
2-8 _ Grandpa Mangtae and Grandpa Mangtae
and Grandpa Mangtae
- Youkyong Song
2-9 _ Find Positive Potatoes
- Sebin Shin
2-10 _ KBS Morning Show(Achim Madang)
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- Shinah Lee
2-11 _ Test808
- Seungkyun Lim
2-12 _ COVID-19 Newspaper Collage
- Jihae Lim
2-13 _ I Shall Please
- Geunyoung Hong