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At Thirty, the Party Was Over is a response to the contemporary poetry of South Korea. The title refers to a poem by Choi Young-mi. Everything in Seoul, Korea seems to talk to you, elevators, escalators, tollbooths, crosswalks and rice cookers. One history also speaks to another, tourists with Samsung cell phones populate a ninth century temple while camera crews at another historic site film a program about a 15th century palace. The past speaks through the present as a monthly civil defense drill reminds us of a state of war. A Japanese postcard recalls the thirty-five years of colonization of Korea by Japan. The present speaks to the past telling it that the city of Gwangju will not be forgotten. In At Thirty, the Party Was Over a restaurant is emptied to make room for the memories of all that happened and the songs to be completed at the next party.

Dan Boord and Luis Valdovino are Professors at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Exhibitions: The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Holland; The Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; Centro Nacional de Las Artes, Mexico City, Mexico; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile; Transmediale, Berlin, Germany; World Wide Video Festival, The Hague, Holland; Les Rencontres Internationales; Toronto Film Festival, Toronto, Canada; Edinburgh Film Festival, Scotland; Oberhausen Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany and the 50th Robert Flaherty Film Seminar.