Leeum Museum of Art Successfully Concludes 'Beyond Senses' Appreciation Program for Hearing-Impaired Children

New Appreciation Program for the Hearing Impaired
Diverse Works by Asian Contemporary Artists, Enjoyed with Specialized Children's Instructors

A scene expressing appreciation together with choreographers. Photo by Leeum Museum of Art

[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Heeyoon] The Leeum Museum of Art announced on the 25th that it held the exhibition appreciation program for hearing-impaired elementary school students, "Beyond Senses: Cloud Walk," three times on the 16th, 23rd, and 24th at the museum exhibition hall and the Samsung Children’s Education and Culture Center.

The "Beyond Senses" program was designed to help children and adolescents with disabilities expand their latent creativity beyond the visually dependent method of appreciation. After a pilot program last year, it began full-scale operation this year.

A total of 38 students from Seoul Samsung School, Seoul Aehwa School, and Seoul School for the Blind participated in this November’s "Beyond Senses" program, following the one held in May.

After appreciating Kengo Kuma’s "Breath" and Kazuya Katagiri’s "Paper Dune," the students experienced making clouds out of paper or entering inside paper clouds together with choreographer Noh Kyung-ae.

Students enjoying paper sand dunes at the exhibition. Photo by Leeum Museum of Art

Choreographer Noh Kyung-ae conducted extensive research to express the exhibition’s theme of "clouds" as creative movements for children. She likened the paper cylinders used in the exhibition to cloud particles, allowing the children to move as if they were wrapped in clouds, riding on clouds, or becoming flowing clouds themselves.

Choreographer Noh added that while moving their bodies, there comes a moment when the children’s senses fully open, and that moment is when their thoughts become free regardless of disability.

A representative of the Leeum Museum of Art said, “The goal is to focus on each individual’s diverse senses rather than their differences, expanding artistic imagination. Especially in this ‘Beyond Senses: Cloud Walk,’ by focusing on movement, participants were transformed into active appreciators, exploring the artworks not only visually but also through bodily movement.”

The "Beyond Senses" program will continue next year as well. It is scheduled to be held six times over two months, May and June, targeting hearing-impaired elementary, middle, and high school students. In addition, to assist hearing-impaired people in appreciating art, the museum provides sign language interpretation videos of its representative collections online.

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