The 'Creative Process' of the Arts Council Korea (Chairperson Jung Byung-kook), which supports artists' creative experiments and challenges, came to an end by sharing the creative activities and achievements of this year's participants. "A safe laboratory," "A challenge to break stereotypes," and "A mother who cut off the cram school that her daughter wanted to attend so much," the artists who participated in the project expressed their creative process in a variety of ways.
This year's Creative Process project selected and supported 151 artists and organizations in the fields of literature, visual arts, performing arts, and multidisciplinary arts. They spent the year freely experimenting with creative ideas through research, research, and workshops.
In order to share the results of various activities and strengthen networking among artists, the 2024 Creative Process Creative Lounge held at Seongsu Senbus from October 22 to 23 gathered more than 70 artists and organizations, as well as 20 insiders, including the head of the Arts Support Division and the Visual Multidisciplinary Arts Team. Each team shared their achievements and know-how during the one-year creative process, and also gained new inspiration by listening to examples from other artists.
In the opening session, three teams, Patternman Theater, Branch Tangcheon, and Elbow's Range of Activities, demonstrated their own creative process and showed the moment when a novel idea was brought to life. Afterwards, in the first part, each team's creative activities and future plans were shared, and in the second part, they had a free networking time by dividing the realistic concerns they faced in the art field by keywords. In addition, some research booklets, exhibition catalogues, and other research and production results were exhibited.
Elbow's Scope of Action team said, "Thanks to the creative process project, we were able to expand our work, and we were able to perform at the Assitej Festival this winter."
Creative process was evaluated as a support project that did not focus on the outcome, and it provided an opportunity for works that had been stopped or studied in depth due to COVID-19 or personal circumstances to see the light of day again.
Patternman Theater team said, "We were able to try and experiment to our heart's content for the next time, and meeting the audience in the process gave us a chance to check out other possibilities," adding, "Participating in the creative process project made us feel a little bolder and freer."
Ryu Jae-so, head of the Arts Support Division, said, "Although the Creative Process project will be completed this year, I hope that all of you who participated in the Creative Process Project will have the opportunity to take a leap forward by using this experience as a springboard, just as the Arts Council Korea supported artists such as Han Kang and Kim A-Young to reach the world stage."
The stories of the artists who participated in the 2024 Creative Process project can be found on the official blog of the Arts Council Korea around November.