esea contemporary is pleased to co-host an in-person reading session with the Feminist Duration Reading Group, led by Taey Iohe and Grace Eunhye Park. The session will explore the enduring issues of migration as well as experiences of displacement and exile. We will collectively read from Maja Lee Langvad’s “She is angry”, Kim Hyesoon’s “Phantom Pain Wings”, and “Rise” by Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner and Aka Niviâna – further framed by Jane Jin Kaisen’s works which, through the engagement with discourse, power, and subjectivity, delineate a contested modernity.
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Psychological and poetic, the texts provide powerful female enunciations on urgent social concerns including transnational adoption and climate justice, as well as giving insights on how humour, imagination, connection can offer ways of hope and being. Through these three texts, we will reflect on the different social multiplicity of gender and migratory encounters which demand an increasingly complex understanding of the diasporic condition in the concurrent ecological, social, and political crises of our time.
List of texts:
There is no expectation to read the texts in advance as we will read out loud, one person and one paragraph at a time, together. Copies of the reading will be handed out during the session.
The title of this event is taken from Kim Hyesoon's poem “Phantom Pain Wings”.
About Feminist Duration Reading Group
Formed in 2015, the Feminist Duration Reading Group (FDRG) focuses on under-known and under-represented feminist texts and movements from outside the Anglo-American canon. The group’s free monthly programme, open to all, has encompassed film screenings, performances, workshops, translations, walks, meals, podcasts, writing and listening, as well as collective reading.
Taey Iohe is an artist whose work spans across diverse media, including moving images, sound, social practice and assemblage through an Asian crip/queer lens. Their approach fuses research-based work with personal narratives that challenge socio-botanical entanglements within environmental hormones and climate justice. Taey holds a PhD in the programme of Gender, Identity and Culture, funded by Writing on Borders, at University College Dublin. A member of Feminist Duration Reading Group and co-founder of the Decolonising Botany Working Group, Research Associate at the Centre for Contemporary Art in Derry~Londonderry. They currently teach Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art. (@taey.iohe)
Grace Eunhye Park is a curator and producer based in London and Seoul. Her curatorial research focuses on visual communication methodology, community narrative, disabled art, and time-based media. Since 2015, she has actively engaged in various exhibitions and collaborations with artists. She has worked as the coordinator of the Korea Artist Prize 2021 at MMCA, production manager for the Korea Pavilion featuring artist Jane Jin Kaisen at the Venice Biennale in 2019, and program and production coordinator of SeMA Biennale Media City Seoul in 2016. Recently, she presented the programme ‘Fly and Flock’ as a member of the collective LUNCHBOXCOLLLRCTIVE at Chisenhale Studios (2023).
esea contemporary presents Jane Jin Kaisen's first UK solo show ‘Halmang’, featuring polyphonic moving-image works, archive and reference materials. By weaving together oceanic cosmology and gendered histories, the exhibition is an in-depth inquiry into narratives of subjective and collective loss, resilience, and the formation of alternative communities.
