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A series of performances will take place in and around the Biennale exhibition halls on both the preview and the first public day.

The 10th Gwangju Biennale

Burning Down the House

5 September–9 November 2014

Press & professional preview: 4 September, 10–18h
Opening ceremony: 4 September, 19–21h

Gwangju Biennale Exhibition Hall and select locations in Jungoe Park, Gwangju, South Korea

Ongoing performances, 4–5 September:

  • Allora & Calzadilla, Temperament and the Wolf, 2014
  • Ei Arakawa & Inza Lim, The Unheroed Theatre (Character Studies with Gwangdae, Shinmyoung, Tobaki, the Fictitious Aseupalteu), 2014
  • Heman Chong, Simultaneous (Gwangju), 2014
  • Okin Collective, Operation-For the Beloved and Song, 2014
  • Roman Ondák, Clockwork, 2014
  • Pierre Huyghe, Name Announcer, 2011

Specially scheduled performances, 4 September:

14–15h
OPEN BAR Library of Spirits-II presented by Banu Cennetoğlu and Donghee Kim

14:30–15:30h
Talk: “The History and Unresolved Issues of LGBT Rights in Korea” by Choi Hyun-sook, in the context of Carlos Motta’s We Who Feel Differently installation.

15–15:10h
Young In Hong, 5100 : pentagon

15–17h
Cecilia Bengolea & François Chaignaud, Sylphides

17–18h
Geumhyung Jeong, CPR Practice

21:30–22h
OPEN BAR Library of Spirits-II presented by Banu Cennetoğlu and Donghee Kim

21:30–22:30h
Cecilia Bengolea & François Chaignaud, Sylphides

Specially scheduled performances, 5 September:

11– 13h
Cecilia Bengolea & Francois Chaignaud, Sylphides

14:30–15:30h
OPEN BAR Library of Spirits-II presented by Banu Cennetoğlu and Donghee Kim

15–15:10h
Young In Hong, 5100 : pentagon

16–17h
Geumhyung Jeong, CPR Practice

Image: Cecilia Bengolea and François Chaignaud, Sylphides, 2009. Photo: Alain Monot. Courtesy the artists/Gwangju Biennale

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