CURRENT RESEARCH WITH THE SUPPORT OF CHALMERS ARTS FELLOWSHIP, 2017-2019
The concept of duality has been an important subject in my work, particularly around the issues that relate to my own personal location of being hyphenated — Korean-Canadian. With this fellowship, I am expanding my research to hyphenated subjects living in Korea: How do other hyphenated subjects navigate their way around in Korea, in a nation proudly proclaiming its homogeneity?; as a fairly new concept compare to Canada, what are the workings and understanding of multiculturalism in Korea? This new research direction is particularly important at this juncture of my career, as this added dimension of the hyphenated subject will enhance and broaden my own understanding of transnational migration (either through immigration or temporary working circumstances) and the politics of diaspora.
Approaching these questions from everyday and lived experience is important for me. From number of visits to Korea and collecting interviews from diverse groups, reflecting on their unique experience, I am working towards making a visual essay, bookwork, and mapping project.
The concept of duality has been an important subject in my work, particularly around the issues that relate to my own personal location of being hyphenated — Korean-Canadian. With this fellowship, I am expanding my research to hyphenated subjects living in Korea: How do other hyphenated subjects navigate their way around in Korea, in a nation proudly proclaiming its homogeneity?; as a fairly new concept compare to Canada, what are the workings and understanding of multiculturalism in Korea? This new research direction is particularly important at this juncture of my career, as this added dimension of the hyphenated subject will enhance and broaden my own understanding of transnational migration (either through immigration or temporary working circumstances) and the politics of diaspora.
Approaching these questions from everyday and lived experience is important for me. From number of visits to Korea and collecting interviews from diverse groups, reflecting on their unique experience, I am working towards making a visual essay, bookwork, and mapping project.
SELECTED RECENT PRESENTATIONS
2018
Being Korean-Canadian: Hyphenation as Identity, Seminar at Summer Institute 2018, York University
2017
"Dislocated, Inspired, Connected: With a focus on Korean Inspiration", Korean Cultural Centre Theatre, Ottawa, CA
Panelists: Caroline Andrieux, Brendan Fernandes, June Pak, Stefan St-Laurent and Pavitra Wickramasinghe
Moderator: Jinny Yu
2016
Guest Lecture: "Ethnic (In)Visibility and Visual Representation", The Art of Asia, York University, Toronto
2015
Guest Lecture: "(In)Visibility | Ethnicity | Hyphenation", Graduate Seminar, York University
2014
“Locating Multiculturalism Between Commodification and Ideology” (Peer-reviewed paper presentation), Asian Canadian Studies Conference (OISE) What Difference Does ‘Asian Canadian’ Make? Power, Knowledge, and Resistance, University of Toronto, Toronto, CA
“Visibility | Ethnicity | Identity: Studying Through The Invisible Transformation Project and Paint Job” (Peer-reviewed paper presentation), Canada: Place, Space, and the Politics of Identity, Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies, York University, Toronto, CA
“Visual Representation of Ethnicity at the Location of Hyphenation”, Visual Spectacle in contemporary Asian Art (Graduate Seminar), York University, Toronto, CA (Prof. Nell Tenhaaf)
2013
“International Artists Research Presentation”, Community Space Litmus, Ansan, KR
“Is Multiculturalism Well-Package Idealism?: Asian Ethnicity in Canadian Television” (Peer-reviewed paper presentation), Context and Meaning XII: Making and Breaking Identity, Grad Conference, Queen’s University, Kingston, CA
“Is Multiculturalism Well-Package Idealism?: Asian Ethnicity in Canadian Television” (Peer-reviewed paper presentation), Dis/Placing the East/West Binary: Aesthetic and Cultural Crossover in Film and Visual Culture, Conference, Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, UK (read the symposium report by Hiu M. Chan here)
2011
"Re-imagining Hyphenated Identity: What does it mean to become Korean-Canadian?", Gender Sexuality Ethnicity (VISA 3001), York University, Toronto, CA. (Prof. Jon Baturin)
“Community/Art/Artist”
Art, Politics and Society (VISA 3680), York University, Toronto, CA (Prof. Hong Kal)
