Fabrice Mazliah, Ioannis Mandafounis   
Photo © Constance Neuenschwander

FESTIVAL BO:M

Date: Mar.27-May.04 2010
Artist: The Forsythe Company, Fabrice Mazliah, 
         Ioannis Mandafounis, Chris Kondek, Yeondoo Jung,
         William Kentridge, Massimo Furlan, Geumhyung Jeong 
         X Chungwoo Lee, X Jackson Hong, Jérôme Bel, Marijs
         Boulogne, Hyun-Suk Seo, Jeonhwan Cho, les ballets C
         de la B, Alain Platel, Na-hyun Lee, Dong-uk Seo, Cather-
         ine Sullivan, Catherine Sullivan, Yohangza, Lee Young
         June, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Roger Bernat, Xavier 
         Le Roy, Hwayeon Nam, Wael Shawky, Nicolas Geyrhalter,
         Sungmin Hong, Alan Berliner, Sulki & Min, SMSM
Venue: Arko Art Center, Arko Arts Theather,
          Namsan Arts Center, Curo Arts Valley Theatre,
          Sogang Univ. Mary Hall, Film Forum, Jeong Bo Theatre,
          Marronnier Park, Seoul World Cup Stadium
Website: www.festivalbom.org

 The international multi-cultural art festival, 'Festival Bom' is
having its fourth show this year. Since the festival first kicked
off as the 'Springwave Festival' in 2007, every spring it shows
a broad range of art including contemporary dance, theater
arts, visual arts, music, movies, and performance art. It also
features experimental art.
 In this year's festival artists from Korea and all over the world
showed 26 works from 10 different places. William Forsythe of
the Forsythe Company, which has moved away from the cla-
ssical set of movements, played a piece tailored to certain
physical movements Additive Inverse. Fabrice Mazliah and Ioa-
nnis Mandafounis showed P.A.D, a dance and installation work
which reflects ambiguous and abnormal relationships and Media
artist Yeondoo Jung participated in the festival with his piece
Cinemagician, a performance work which records magic, movies,
and the act of making a movie.