2019 - ongoing

A video collection of stories on a name.

The NAME Project is slow process-based research on an alternative way of understanding histories through stories behind names. Intimate stories about people’s names are woven with their memories to tell lived and personal histories. These histories are individual, yet they resonate with collective moments in history.

Dialogue and conversation are the primary mechanisms for this project to foster a reciprocal relationship between the storyteller and the listener. The stories I have collected in Korea and Canada for this project share narratives of one’s journey from childhood to adulthood/parenthood, from one country to another, and other variants of transition within one’s life.

  • Name Project- Open Studio Banner

    01. Banner inviting participants for the Name Project at Alternative Artspace Ipo, Seoul, Korea, 2022

  • Open-Studio at Ipo

    02. Open-Studio at the Alternative Artspace Ipo

  • Name Project

    03. Name Project: Sheetal Prasad at Space illi, Seoul, Korea, 2022. It was part of the Ssaiie Ssiot Laboratory organized by Hwang Su-Kyung, the Artistic Director of Space illi.