Editorial Team
Elmgreen & Dragset: Aéroport Mille Plateaux
Edited by Soyeon Ahn
Published by PLATEAU, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, 2015
Aéroport Mille Plateaux (July 23–October 18, 2015) is a major solo exhibition by the artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset that transforms Seoul’s PLATEAU, Samsung Museum of Art into a fictional airport. Inspired by the confluence of PLATEAU’s unique glass and steel architecture and the ideas of French philosopher Gilles Deleuze (1925–95), the exhibition’s title fuses the name of the museum with the landmark book by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Mille Plateaux (1980). With this exhibition, the artists align the endless and often conflicting possibilities of an airport with the rhizomatic structure of Mille Plateaux (in English, A Thousand Plateaus).
The catalogue accompanying the exhibition features essays by three international Deleuze scholars: Ian Buchanan, professor of cultural studies at the University of Wollongong; Gregory Flaxman, associate professor of English and comparative literature, and director of global cinema studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and Chan-Woong Lee, assistant professor at the Ewha Institute for the Humanities of Ewha Womans University. In addition to an interview between curator Soyeon Ahn and the artists, the catalogue focuses on the driving theoretical ideas behind Aéroport Mille Plateaux. The authors explore subjects like Marc Augé’s idea of the airport as a “non-place” and situate Elmgreen & Dragset’s oeuvre in the framework of some key philosophical concepts presented in Mille Plateaux.
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Design: Anja Schiller, Mirim RyuAdditional Graphic Design: Steffen Matschey
Editorial Team: Nayoung Cho, Anita Iannacchione