Lecture by siren eun young jung

siren eun young jung, Deferral Theatre, 2018, single channel video, 35 min. 5 sec. Photo: Chulki Hong. Courtesy of the Artist.

As part of Conversations in Contemporary Art

Yeoseong Gukgeuk Project: To Imagine Queer Mnemonics

April 18, 2023, 6:00 – 7:30 p.m.
In person – Concordia University, Room 114, VA Building,
1395 René-Lévesque BLVD W. Reception to follow.
Online – Join Zoom meeting here

Artist siren eun young jung discusses her long-term ethnographic research project, Yeoseong Gukgeuk Project (2008-present), which critically investigates gender binaries, the invention of traditions, and history writing.

An exhibition of Siren eun young jung’s work will be presented at the Gallery in September as part of the next edition of MOMENTA Biennale de l’image

The lecture is co-hosted with the Global Emergent Media Lab (GEM Lab), MOMENTA Biennale de l’image, and the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery. This program is part of the GEM Lab 2022-2023 Seminar in Media and Political Theory, Video/Art/TV: Digital Aesthetics and Politics.

Artist siren eun young jung studied visual arts and feminist theory at Ewha Womans University in South Korea and the University of Leeds in the UK. Her interests lie in the seething desires of anonymous individuals as they encounter events throughout the world and how they grow into resistance, history, and politics. She believes that, by ceaselessly reexamining feminist-queer methodology, artistic praxis that is simultaneously aesthetic and political is possible. Working across various fields such as visual art, film, and theatre, her most representative works include the Dongducheon Project (2007-2009) and the Yeoseong Gukgeuk Project (2008-present). She has grown mainly through major exhibitions in Asia such as Tradition (Un)Realized at Arko Art Center, Seoul (2014), Ghosts, Spies, Grandmothers: SeMA Biennale Mediacity Seoul at Seoul City Museum of Art, Seoul (2014), Discordant Harmony at Kuandu Museum of Fine Art, Taipei and Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art (2015, 2016), 8th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art at Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane (2015-16), 11th Gwangju Biennale (2016), 13th Taipei Biennial (2016-2017), 11th Shanghai Biennale (2018), at Tokyo Performing Arts Meeting in Yokohama (2014, 2018), and Serendipity Art Festival in Panaji (2018). She is the recipient of the 2013 Hermes Foundation Art Award, the 2015 Sindoh Art Prize, and the 2018 Korea Artist Prize and participated in the Korean Pavilion’s exhibition at the 2019 Venice Biennale. siren eun young jung was born in 1974 in South Korea, and currently lives and works in Seoul.