SPACE January 2026 (No. 698)
Kang Haeseong + Moon Sojung + Han Kyungtai, Roving Modular Bric-a-brac, 2025
‘Busan MOCA Platform 2025 _Call Me By My Name’
Busan Museum of Contemporary Art
Nov. 29, 2025 – Mar. 22, 2026
Building and Dwelling▼1 in an Era of Extinction and Shrinkage
Regions are disappearing and cities are emptying out: this is a moment in which the optimism that inspired the expansion of cities under the premise of growth is being recalibrated. ‘Busan MOCA Platform 2025_Call Me By My Name’ proposes a reconsideration of these conditions through the urban and architectural imagination. It advances a shrinkage-oriented strategy that explores the relationship between individuals and communities through ‘housing’, reduces ‘distance’ to a scale within reach of care, and reconfigures ‘architecture’ as a resource-circulation system of a scale that can be sustained.
Seoul Queer Collective, When we reach eighty, won’t we all be each other’s caregivers?, 2025
Pozamong, MycoCell Universe: Coexistence of Fungi and Humans, 2025
A Shrinking World, Rebuilding the Structure of Life
Marking its third edition, ‘Platform’, the annual exhibition of the Busan Museum of Contemporary Art (hereinafter Busan MOCA), launched an open call for participants in March 2025 under the theme, A Shrinking World, Rebuilding the Structure of Life. The exhibition’s orientation, as stated in the call for submissions, was explicit: to imagine ‘shrinkage-oriented spaces’ that do not attempt to contain everything, but selectively accommodate only the relationships and functions that are truly necessary. Kim Gahyun (Curator, Busan MOCA) explained that her interest in this theme began with a documentary about Whittier, a small town in Alaska. In the film, most of Whittier’s roughly 200 residents are shown living within a single 14-storey apartment building, where all functions – from housing, supermarkets, and laundromats to hospitals, churches, schools, police stations, post offices, and t...
