Three young artists - in New York, Berlin, and Seoul - record their situation and response to the pandemic, shelter-in-residence, and the changing landscape of the city each one lives in. Featuring Woo Ram Jung, Grace Noh, and kate-hers RHEE, the artists compare and contrast their experiences and ask themselves a question: what is the role of the creative community during a world-wide pandemic?
This video was produced in collaboration with MiA Collective Art.
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http://www.miacollectiveart.com/covid19-diaries-series-part1/online-exhibition
Three Artists, Three Cities: The COVID-19 Diaries from MiA Collective Art
with
Woo Ram Jung, Grace Noh and kate-hers RHEE
Friday, May 1, 2020
The Korea Society
350 Madison Avenue, 24th Floor
New York, NY 10017
ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Woo Ram Jung is a photography-based artist whose background lies in architecture. Jung received his Master of Architecture from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 2010 and MFA in Photography and Related Media from Parsons School of Design in 2014. His street photography explores his interaction with anonymous strangers. His work has been exhibited at MiA: Beijing Station: First Chapter in Beijing, #IRL In Real Life, Aronson Gallery at Sheila C. Johnson Design Center in New York, Street Shots/NYC, South Seaport Museum in New York, ALIGN, Atrium Gallery at Temple University in Philadelphia, and You Are Not Paranoid, Observe Yourself Being Watched, Jimei x Arles International Photography Festival in Xiamen.
Grace Noh received her M.A. in Art History from New York University Institute of Fine Arts. Her curatorial practice revolves around translating the past and forming them into new ideas in the present and the future. She challenges and pushes the boundaries of viewing and understanding exhibition format to encourage greater discussion. She has curated and organized exhibitions, produced digital contents and published journals for a number of institutions, galleries and magazines, including Jimei x Arles International Photography Festival in Xiamen, China and Fotografiska New York. In addition, she co-founded MiA Collective Art, an art collective platform based in Beijing and New York.
kate-hers RHEE is an interdisciplinary artist, arts educator, and cultural worker. Orphaned in Seoul, Korea and transnationally adopted into a white working class Detroit suburb, she became painfully aware of racial and socio-economic differences at a young age. She employs performance, installation, drawing, and participatory events to explore the concepts of home, kinship, cultural acquisition/appropriation, and gendered violence. She is currently working between Newark and New York, at Rutgers University and researching at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Berlin, Germany at the Atelierhaus Mengerzeile; and South Korea, where she has been conducting independent research since 2014.
