The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Korea (MMCA) presents Watch and Relax 3.0: Suspense streamingthe third season of the world’s first subscription-based contemporary art streaming platform, where audiences around the world can freely access the multimedia collection of major international art institutions.
Created by MMCA and presented in collaboration with leading art museums, Watch and relax offers subscribers around the world the opportunity to watch works from the media collections of participating institutions and artists from each community. Launched in 2021 during the pandemic, the first season was a collaboration between four Asian museums – including MCAD in Manila, MAIIAM in Chiang Mai and M+ in Hong Kong – and Sharjah Art Foundation and ArkDes in Stockholm contributed to the second season.
For Watch and Relax 3.0, MMCA partners with TONO, a video and performance festival in Mexico City; the Peabody Essex Museum in Massachusetts; and the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne. Jihoi Lee, Samantha Ozer, Trevor Smith and Timothy Moore are the curators.
Entitled Streaming thriller, this season explores the ways in which methods of storytelling and imagery evoke immersion through the strategies of tension. With subtopics like “Moonlit Landscape”, “Assembly of Evidence”, “Mutable Corpus”, “Performance of the Undead” and “Post-dystopian Worldbuilding”, both the online platform and the offline exhibition at MMCA in Seoul feature works that today experiment with the psyche of strangeness, abnormality, shapeshifting and related implications.
Participating artists, designers and filmmakers from Korea, the Americas and Oceania include Meriem Bennani, Club Ate (Justin Shoulder, Bhenji Ra and collaborators), Fyerool Darma, Jang Minseung, siren eun young jung, Kwon Hayoun and many more .
Watch and Relax 3.0: Suspense streaming is online until April 2024. The offline exhibition runs until July 23 and is presented at Gallery 5 of MMCA Seoul.
To learn more, visit watchandchill.kr/en.
