세계문자심포지아 2015
가가호호 문자 GAGAHOHO SCRIPT
World Script Symposia 2015
 
GAGAHOHO SCRIPT

 
October 16 (Fri) – 25 (Sun), 2015
Tongui-dong, Jongno-gu, Seoul
 
Opening Reception
5:30pm, October 15 (Thu), 2015
at PalaÍs de Sèoul
 
The World Script Institute was founded to promote the awareness of the ecology of scripts. Understanding and maintaining the ecology of scripts is important because the ecology of scripts provides grounds for the diversity of scripts, especially in times when the independence of many native scripts is under the threat of extinction. Following World Script Symposia 2014, World Script Symposia 2015, sponsored by the World Script Institute, aims at making aware of the overall implications and values of the scripts from the perspectives of history, civilization, and society. Another important goal of the event is to promote the importance of sustaining the diversity and ecology of the scripts of the world with clear vision and full vigor.
 
Hosted by
Jongno-gu, World Script Institute. Inc.
Organized by
World Script Institute. Inc.
Supported by
Seoul Metropolitan Government
Sponsored by
PalaÍs de Sèoul, Kaja & wine
Cooperated by
World Multi Culture Museum, Jinglim Foundation, Seoga Design Group, Byungsoo Cho, Insung Jung, Ilgyu Lee, Hyunhye Lee, Corner Art Space, Gallery Factory, Ian Art Consulting, DANISH ARTS FOUNDATION
 
World Script Institute. Inc.
03031 84, Jahamun-ro 33-gil,
Jongno-gu, Seoul, Korea
t. 82+2-725-2423
 
scriptsymposia@gmail.com
scriptsymposia.org
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World Script Symposia 2014 Archive

Academic Conference
Looking back and forward
(Director Gu, Yeon-sang)
October 21 (Wed) – 23 (Fri), 2015
Yein Hall, Sejong Center, Seoul
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Art Project 1
Crossing
(Director: Bora Hong)
October 16 (Fri) – 25 (Sun), 2015
Tonguy-dong, Changseong-dong Street, Round About, Gallery Factory, Gagarin
crossing-project.org
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Art Project 2
Script Inventors
(Director: Ji Yoon Yang)
October 15 (Thu) – 25 (Sun), 2015
Yein Hall (Sejong Center), OnGround Gallery, Hwang Doojin Architects, CineCode Sonje, Changseong-dong Street
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Script Experience Event
EXPERIENCING GAGAHOHO SCRIPTS
(DIRECTOR: KIM, JONG-GU)
October 16 (Fri) – 25 (Sun), 2015
Tongui-dong area
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The World Script Institute holds a festival to celebrate for scripts of the world, the “World Script Symposia 2015: “Scripts from Door to Door” Festival from October 16 to October 25 in Tongui-dong and neighboring areas. The event is aimed at promoting diversity of scripts of the world. Tongui-dong, the main venue of the event, is located at the center of Seoul and best known for the preservation of the original forms and beauty of the traditional Korean houses (Hanok) and is also famous for a well-balanced harmony with modern buildings for arts. The village also boasts peaceful unity of multicultural diversity.
 
The World Script Symposia 2015 festival provides rare opportunities for the general public to experience how the status of scripts can be changed depending on the users and geographical factors such as alleys, streets, villages and. In reverse, the event will also offer you the chance to see what will happen to our houses, alleys and villages when the script changes.
 
First, we will try to transform the houses in the alleys of Tongui-dong as a crossroad of scripts where the patterns and perceptions of the scripts of the world and find their common footprints realized in a peaceful mix.
 
In order to make the indented transformation happen, we will organize a series of script art events; script banners, script balloons, script signboards, script dances, script experience, script architecture, scripts for text animation, 3D script sculpture.
 
These events will help the ordinary visitors to grasp the functions and meanings of the scripts.
 
In addition, we will have the time to talk with participants about selected academic topics on the script as well as personal stories related to the script in a new discussion format. For academic issues, we will have a panel discussion session during which various issues related to the script will be dealt with one by one. The issues we will cover will be about, but not limited to, the directions of the policies on using own scripts in different countries, a new phase of script war, investigation on the originating places of the scripts of the world, and finally policies on scripts and language in Eurasia.
 
Humans have collectively developed and polished the script over five thousand years. The script is one of the most important historical heritages and served as a cultural crossroad that kept and will keep the uniqueness and identities of the diverse script communities.
 
The event will serve as a public forum, like Shilla’s Hwabaek Council or Agora in Ancient Greece, in which people can exhibit, make, and talk about scripts in which the uniqueness and universality of human cultures can interweave.