Walkthrough of Humming to the Sound of Fear

Walkthrough of Humming to the Sound of Fear
with artists YoungEun Kim, Jae Hwan Lim, and Kyle Tata, moderated by Eleana Kim
Helen J Gallery
929 Cole Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90038
Free Event (RSVP)

Please note: during the walkthrough, doors and windows at Helen J Gallery will remain open; participants and audience members will be required to wear masks.

Join GYOPO and Helen J Gallery for a walkthrough of Humming to the Sound of Fear, curated by John Junghun Lee. In the exhibition, Korean diasporic artists offer critical perspectives on the unended Korean War through deeply imaginative engagements with the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) and its immediate surroundings.

Eleana J. Kim, author of the forthcoming book, Making Peace with Nature: Ecological Encounters along the Korean DMZ, will lead a discussion with three artists included in the exhibition, YoungEun Kim, Jae Hwan Lim, and Kyle Tata.

Eleana J. Kim

is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. She is a cultural anthropologist whose research and writing are organized around core anthropological concerns with nature and culture and the biological and the social in the production of personhood and social value. In Kim’s past and ongoing projects––which include transnational adoption from South Korea, the ecologies of the demilitarized zone (DMZ), and transnational circulations of medicinal ginseng––she seeks out the particular ways in which conceptions of the nation, personhood, politics, and human/non-human relations are performatively and discursively made and remade through cases that confound everyday assumptions about what is “natural” or “cultural.”

YoungEun Kim

(b.1980, Seoul, Korea) is a sound artist based in Los Angeles whose work closely examines contemporary auditory culture with the mission of exploring sound as a social, cultural, and political medium. She has been awarded at the SongEun Art Awards in Korea and at Prix Ars Electronica in Austria. She received her BFA from Hongik University and her MFA at the Korea National University of Arts in Seoul, Korea. Kim also holds a Certificate of Sonology from The Royal Conservatory of The Hague, The Netherlands.

Jae Hwan Lim

(b.1995, Seoul, Korea) is a politically-driven artist-activist focusing on human rights and the struggles for democracy in South and North Korea. His social practice projects, installations, and performances examine violence in society and politics. He is the founder and director of Humans of North Korea (HNK), an organization that advocates for North Korean defectors in the United States and for global citizenship. Lim holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Studio Area from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Kyle Tata

(b.1990, Baltimore, MD) is a photographer and an artist based in Los Angeles. His work has been featured at galleries and institutions such as the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD; Hamiltonian Gallery, Washington, DC; The International Print Center, New York, NY; Spudnik Press & Gallery, Chicago, IL; and Silvermine Arts Center, New Canaan, CT. He is a BFA graduate from the Maryland Institute College of Art and is currently an MFA candidate in Art at the University of California, Los Angeles.