Photo depicting Arantxa Araujo in Cocoon, performance, 2022 / Photographer: Nicolás DEREO
Shared Dialogue, Shared Space (SDSS) V: Virtual Curator Talk
Thursday, June 16, 2022, from 7-8 PM.
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This spring Korea Art Forum (KAF) produced the third-year iteration of Shared Dialogue, Shared Space, (SDSS) a series of one-day interactive art initiatives presented for free in NYC Parks. Curators Heng-Gil Han, Jennifer McGregor, and Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles brought together a total of 14 emerging and mid-career artists and artist/music groups to create participatory works and performances across 2 public parks in Inwood Hill Park in Manhattan, and Maple Playground in Flushing, Queens. On Thursday, June 16, 2022, from 7-8 PM, join the curators for an online forum reflecting on the spring 2022 SDSS projects.
Learn more about artists’ projects, which ranged from public performance, drawing and printmaking workshops, augmented reality experiences, participatory installations, textile crafts, to printed comics. Ask each curator for their reflections on the events and the type of community engagement that happened. The curators will also share the summaries of their essays, which will be published in the forthcoming 2022 SDSS catalogue. Participating artists included Stephanie Alvarado, Arantxa Araujo, Ana Paula Cordeiro, Gina Goico, Alicia Grullón, Cody Herrmann, Jeanne F. Jalandoni, Rosamond S. King, David Younghwan Lee, Lily & Honglei, LuLu LoLo, Priscilla Marrero, and Eunhae Park, with music by the Afro-Polka Ensemble featuring Marty Ehrlich-flute, Jerome Harris-guitar, and Maciek Schejbal-percussion.
Since 2020, Shared Dialogue, Shared Space has broadened channels of communication between the contemporary art world and immigrant communities in New York City, advancing the artists’ creative endeavors of engaging the public. Focused on the expansion of public access to the artists’ creative work, the project fosters dialogues between the audience and artists, exploring a wide range of subject matters and the multidimensional role of art in the processes of cultural production and social change. The SDSS program aims to connect immigrant communities and underserved ethnic enclaves to visual arts and culture through language access and participatory art activities. The activities are offered to populations with limited English proficiency (LEP) free of charge with translation services in English, Chinese, Korean, and Spanish at local parks embedded in the community.
The full 2022 Spring SDSS program, which incorporated three in-person events at local parks in both Inwood and Flushing, and a virtual artist talk will conclude with this curatorial talk on Zoom livestreamed on Facebook (and disseminated on YouTube afterward) on June 16 from 7-8 PM, and a quadrilingual catalogue including artist interviews, curatorial essays, and observer’s reflections to be published soon. For updates check www.kafny.org, or email hhan@kafny.org.
Founded in New York 2013, Korea Art Forum (KAF) is led by artists, scholars, and peacemakers committed to bridging the world through art, serving to advance indispensable values of art’s connectivity, relevance, and equity to create a peaceful world and enhance people’s quality of life and well-being. KAF’s goals are to stem root causes of inequality found in the contemporary art field and build an aesthetic framework that enables the creation of a peaceful world of coexistence, cooperation, and shared prosperity. Operating at the intersection of the visual arts and humanities, KAF annually produces interrelated projects—Commissions, Exhibitions, Forums, and Publications—to bring together all people from the art world and beyond to share dialogues, serving to build an interconnected peaceful world and support diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility.
Korea Art Forum (KAF) is supported, in part, by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. KAF’s programs are supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in Partnership with the City Council, and is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. 2022 Shared Dialogue, Shared Space (SDSS) is made possible in part with funding from UMEZ Arts Engagement, a regrant program supported by the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone Development Corporation (UMEZ) and administered by LMCC. WQXR is the media partner of Korea Art Forum presenting Shared Dialogue, Shared Space.
