Seoul-based curator Hyunjin Kim's talk “From Ghost of Modernity to Spirit of the Ungovernable”
Tuesday, March 21 4-5:30 pm
Future Histories Studio (Staller 4222)
Hyunjin Kim will discuss the works presented in "Frequencies of Tradition," a curatorial project
based on a long-term research that began in 2014, and the conjoint knowledge production
that extends the understanding of tradition as a space of contestation and examines
modernization in Asia. Tradition is a significant part of daily lives in Asia, connecting
generations and reverberating as a living archive of cultures across time. Tradition
also retains and upholds patriarchy, authoritarianism, and obsolete customs. Through
collective memories, spirituality, archival imagination, technological engagements,
and alternative modes of empowerment, the works in the exhibition go beyond conventional
notions of tradition and examine how regional modernization entangles with the emergence
of tradition and where the violence of social conventions, nationalism, and the impact
of such histories on the everyday manifest.
Hyunjin Kim is a curator and writer based in Seoul, Korea. Kim was recently the Artistic
Director of Incheon Art Platform 2021 and the KADIST Lead Curator for Asia, where
she developed her three-year program "Frequency of Tradition." Previously, she served
as the curator of the Korean Pavilion at the 58th International Art Exhibition of
La Biennale di Venezia (2019), a co-curator of the 7th Gwangju Biennale (2008), a
co-curator of "2 or 3 Tigers" (Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, 2017), among others.