A public contest that the MMCA launched in 2019 with full sponsorship from the Hyundai Motor Company, Project # is a program that discovers up-and-coming artists and creators. The project selects collaborative works without genre restrictions and provides long-term support for two teams selected each year. Project # 2020 will introduce projects by two teams, Gangnambug and Seoul Queer Collective, who were selected from 200 prospective participants.
Interpreting the Gangnam area as a kind of bug born in South Korea's development process, Gangnambug attempts to reexamine Gangnam's inherent problems, the perception of the area, and the values represented by it from multiple angles, so as to touch on various current issues of Korean society. Seoul Queer Collective will present a project that exposes spaces occupied by the so-called urban queer (i.e. genderqueer, elderly living in flophouses, homeless people, and female sex workers), who are being marginalized and edged out in the process of urban gentrification. Through the means of data maps, publications, and seminars, the group will address the hierarchy of urban spaces and the issues of spatial ownership.
