i haven’t really mentioned it on the blog but i am also working part-time while i’m in korea this summer. i am working with the Anyang Public Art Festival (APAP) which is hosted by the City of Anyang about an hour south of Seoul by subway.
Basically, I’ve been doing two things; First, I was helping organize the programming that is being created for the Open Community Center being built/created at a park near Hakwon Stream in Anyang. I worked with international and domestic artists to make programming that will engage and activate communities surrounding the Open Community Center.
Second, I have been working with an urban design/architecture/art firm from berlin called raumlabor on their various community projects. one of these is a community garden in the new community space that is being created. to encourage residents to participate and also to get the word out, we set out with a mobile planting station.
Basically the way it works is that we used these customed made bicycles created by one of the APAP invited artists to carry around supplies needed to create a mobile garden: soil, pots, plants, seeds, trowels, etc. Then we stop and set up shop in a neighborhood adjacent to the park.
It was very successful in engaging the community at that very moment. Many people came by, mostly kids and their parents and join us in planting new seeds as well as seedlings for the new garden. Some of them were taken home to be taken care of until the garden officially opens at the beginning of September (construction delayss). The other pots are gathered in a small grassy knoll in Hakwon park until we can make a temporary garden space next week.
Here are some pictures from the event:
