Travel Tip: Art and Archaeology in Korea
Nuclear Power Plant Art Project- Yeonggwang 2010

National Museum of Contemporary Art Korea opens the Nuclear Power Plant Art Project in Yeonggwang with its first commissioned site-specific installation entitled, Earth-Water-Fire-Air by Kimsooja. This project is the power plant's first in a public art series organized to transform the city of Yeonggwang into a place where man and nature; energy and technology converge. International artists are scheduled to create site-specific installations that deal with nature and energy around the nuclear power station.

The series kicks off  with Kimsooja's six channel video installation from Earth-Water-Fire-Air an on-going project that will be projected every night onto screens spaced approximately 200 meters apart along the water break. Video footages taken in Lanzarote Island and Guatemalan volcanoes are featured as the artist's visual manifestation of nirvana in which each of the four basic elements reincarnate; burning lava flow became rocks and dust that blow in the air. The video titles, Fire of Earth, Water of Earth, Earth of Water, Air of Fire, Air of Earth, Air of Water, Fire of Air, Water of Air support the idea that the characteristics of one element are created by the other elements --- an idea related to eastern philosophies such as Zen Buddhism and Taoism.

Due to high security measure applies at the nuclear power station site, any visitors are subjected to confirmation with personal information provided by the visitor prior to the visit.