From November Studio 88 Artist Residency will be welcoming Korean curator and interdisplinary artist YeonJeong Kim, as part of our collaboration with the Busan Cultural Foundation. Read on to find out more about her work and the collaboration.
YeonJeong Kim focuses on performance and video in an experimental manner. She aims to make artistic interventions in ordinary life, as well as bring out social and cultural issues in her performances both critically and humorously. She completed an MFA in film from University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, USA and she worked as a visiting professor at Korean national university of arts, Sunggyungwan university, Seoul institute of the arts, Kaywon university, Howon University, and more.
Through performances combining various media, YeonJeong Kim is interested in the relationship between the body and the media, the labor of female artists in capitalism and the resistance and humor. She has been studying experimental methods, such as performance video and video performance, and she is interested in the methodology of interdisciplinary art that expands to various media such as installation, sound, and text.
Recently, YeonJeong Kim has been researching Asian countries through the “Feminale” project, with the keywords of “Asia+ Performance Art+ Feminism”, and she has been continuing activities such as exhibitions and performances with artists from various countries. Her interests are related with how these historical issues remain and affect current artists and countries, how art intervention can map new relationships and build new small monuments, through colonial experience, oppression of women and minorities, and the influence of military dictatorship.
Since 2018, she has researched many Asian countries such as Taiwan, Japan, Singapore, Indonesia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam through the “Feminale” project and presented the process and results in various forms such as live performances, exhibitions and lectures.
During the residency she would like to introduce Feminale achievements and organise an live performance event “Feminale” with the local artists in Thailand. She would also like to conduct an artist talk and performance event under the theme of “Gender and Equality”. This residency is a chance to expand the scope of Feminale project following Myanmar, Japan, Taiwan, and the Philippines, which she has been carrying out as an orgarniser and artist.
Read more about YeonJeong Kim’s work here.
YeonJeong Kim was selected as part of Studio 88’s collaboration with the Busan Cultural Foundation.
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