Panels, Discussions, and Conferences
Korea Art Forum Presents A Forum Reflecting On
The 2023 Shared Dialogue, Shared Space Events
September 30, 2023
Korea Art Forum (KAF) is excited to announce that we’ll be having a virtual community forum on Saturday, September 30, 2023 from 9–11 a.m. EST about the fifth iteration of the 2023 Shared Dialogue, Shared Space (SDSS), an outdoor participatory art event held at Maria Solá Community Garden in Mott Haven, South Bronx, on September 16, 2023.
Korea Art Forum Presents A Forum Reflecting On
The 2023 Shared Dialogue, Shared Space Events
August 19, 2023
Korea Art Forum (KAF) is delighted to announce an upcoming forum on Zoom scheduled for Saturday, August 19, 2023, from 9:00 am to 11:00 am EST. Join us as we share our reflections on the recent outdoor participatory art event, Shared Dialogue, Shared Space (SDSS), held in Mid Manhattan, and introduce the future iteration of SDSS, which will take place in Mott Haven, the Bronx.
Korea Art Forum Presents Community Forum III
on 2023 Shared Dialogue, Shared Space
June 3, 2023
Korea Art Forum (KAF) is delighted to announce an upcoming community forum on Zoom, scheduled for Saturday, June 3, 2023, from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm EST. Join us as we reflect on the success of the recent outdoor participatory art event held in Flushing as part of the Shared Dialogue, Shared Space (SDSS) event series, and introduce the eagerly anticipated third iteration of SDSS, which will take place at Greeley Square Park in Midtown Manhattan.
A Community Forum To Prepare for
2023 Shared Dialogue, Shared Space in Flushing
March 18, 2023
Korea Art Forum (KAF) is thrilled to announce an upcoming forum on Zoom on March 18, 2023, from 1 – 3:30 pm. This forum is organized to prepare the upcoming first iteration of the 2023 Shared Dialogue, Shared Space (SDSS), an outdoor participatory art event scheduled to be held in Bowne Playground, Flushing.
Art in Public Spheres
September 24, 2022
Korea Art Forum (KAF) is pleased to announce an upcoming roundtable discussion given by the artists of 2022 Shared Dialogue, Shared Space (SDSS), and the two curators of programming: Jennifer McGregor and Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles. This discussion will be introduced and led by the interlocutor, Ninad Pandit, a historian, architect and urban planner.
KAF will also be launching its 2022 SDSS in-print and online catalog. This catalog is a written and photographic documentation of the full 2022 SDSS program, which incorporated in-person events at local parks in both Inwood, Manhattan and Flushing, Queens. The 2022 quadrilingual catalog (English, Spanish, Korean, and Chinese) includes artist interviews and curatorial essays. The print catalog will be made available at the discussion.
2021 Shared Dialogue Shared Space
November 20, 2021
Korea Art Forum is pleased to present a forum inviting the artists featured in Shared Dialogue, Shared Space (SDSS), to discuss their community-focused art activities for social changes. The artists who will join the forum are Chemin Hsiao, Ayana Evans, Yeon Jin Kim, Hayoon Lee, Angela Miskis, Dario Mohr, and Lisette Morel. The forum will be held in-person at Buunni Coffeeon on Saturday, November 20, 2021, from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m.
2021 Shared Dialogue Shared Space
June 5, 2021
Korea Art Forum is pleased to present a forum inviting the artists featured in Shared Dialogue, Shared Space (SDSS), to discuss their community-focused art activities for social changes. The artists who joined the forum were Hannes Bend, Scott Braun, Chemin Hsiao, Ayana Evans, Zaid Islam, Yeon Jin Kim, Hayoon Lee, Jong Il Ma, Angela Miskis, Dario Mohr, and Lisette Morel. The forum was held via zoom and recorded on Saturday, June 5, 2021, from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m.
An Era of Peace, A Peaceful Land
2018 to 2019
The COMMODITY & IDEOLOGY PART II further developed into An Era of Peace, A Peaceful Land, a commission project that culminated in an internationally touring exhibition. The phrases in the project’s title were taken from the inter-Korean Summit speeches given by President Moon Jae-in of the Republic of Korea (South Korea) and Chairman Kim Jung Un of the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) on April 27, 2018.
The exhibition began from Conrad Grebel University, Waterloo, ON, Canada on July 12 to October 5, 2018. It continued to Daecheong Island in South Korea on November 25 to December 1, 2018 and Incheon Culture & Arts Center in South Korea on January 4 to January 10, 2019. It concluded as a two-part exhibition at Ozaneaux ArtSpace, NY on April 4 to May 2 and May 9 to August 30, 2019.
Curated by Heng-Gil Han, the exhibition featured 34 Artists, including Robert Morris (US), Suh Yongsun (South Korea), Hong Song Gwang (North Korea), Wu Gaozhong (China) and others. The project commissioned 11 artists from the US, China, and South Korea to visit the isolated Daecheong Island located at the maritime border with North Korea to make art about militarized daily life in Fall 2018. The artists engaged with island residents, actualizing the project’s theme idea that peace is not an absence of war but an interaction among people. The outputs of their public engagements were then exhibited in Daecheong Island, Incheon, and New York.
Associate programs included 15 in-person events, of which 2 gallery tours, 1 public discussion, and 3 artist talks were held in NYC. A print catalogue in English and Korean was distributed to 98 readers in NYC and the PDF version of the catalogue was shared with our 1,500 email subscribers and 4,547 Facebook friends. Through all activities, we engaged more than 2,021 diverse in-person participants and reached 6,347 virtual audiences. We estimate that 1,200 in-person participants and 1,800 virtual subscribers are from NYC. The project connected American, Chinese, and Korean artists with diverse audiences in Canada, Korea, and New York, advancing KAF’s function of supporting artists to disrupt the divided world to promote art’s relevance for peacebuilding.
The exhibit interpreted contemporary art from the perspective of Korea, a country that has been divided since 1945, the year that many art historians see as the beginning of contemporary art. In this perspective, the geographical boundary of contemporary art goes beyond the capitalist Western hemisphere and includes Communist countries. Artistic boundaries of contemporary art also extend to Socialist Realism and Eastern art traditions. The exhibit put forward a working hypothesis of art as a creative impetus and a system of generative judgements that differentiate and connect ever-changing realities in time and space.
Common Ground: An International Symposium
March 2, 2013
Common Ground offers a think-tank forum that argues for the necessity of exchanging arts and culture between North Korea and the rest of the world, especially the United States, as an alternative approach to the Korean conflict, while also reexamining the complex geopolitical, economic and cultural landscape in the region.