Korean Cultural Center in HongKong collaborates with the Korean Foundation for International Cultural Exchange to hold a performance workshop on 3rd September 2018.

This workshop is about the aesthetics of conversation and co-creation. Taeyoon Choi will lecture on his art, teaching, activism practices, and lead participatory performance. The workshop will address following questions.

When we are in conflict, we avoid conversation by making statements. When we lose patience, we demand answers. When we are unhappy about ourselves, we shut our internal reflection. When we are hurt, we say harmful things that would be better kept private. Perhaps we never learned to talk together mindfully? Can we practice a different way to have a conversation to preserve our integrity and ethics? How can making art help us address these questions?

In this workshop, you are a compassionate messenger, crossing the borders of translation, violent displacement of words from meaning. You trespass gracefully, delivering the message iridescently. Some boundaries are meaningful, they preserve the spaces of care. In the commons, we meet ourselves. Talking with care, one step at a time. How can we talk together, among those who have nothing in common?

※ Artist’s Bio:
Taeyoon Choi is an artist, educator, and activist based in New York and Seoul. His art practice involves performance, electronics, drawings, and installations that form the basis for storytelling in public spaces. He has published artists’ books, including ‘Urban Programming 101’ and ‘Anti-Manifesto.’ Choi was an artist in residence at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Workspace, New York and The Frank-Ratchye Studio for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh. He received commissions from Art +Technology Lab, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LA and SeMA Biennale Mediacity Seoul. Choi was a fellow at the Data and Society Research Institute and Eyebeam Art and Technology Center in New York. Choi co-founded the School for Poetic Computation where he continues to organize sessions and teach classes on electronics, drawings, and social practice. Recently, he’s been focusing on unlearning the wall of disability and normalcy, and enhancing accessibility and inclusion within art and technology.

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