Opening Reception and Performance by mihyun maria kim
Celebrate the work of artists Holly Chang, VALU CO-OP, and mihyun maria kim in the exhibition, In the Wake of Work: Asian Diasporas, Labour, and Living Memory. During the reception curator, Jojo Chooi-Harley will give brief remarks. mihyun maria kim will perform live.
i feel the weight of a feather and the lightness of stone, by mihyun maria kim is a site responsive live performance that considers the question, how do we honour the weight of responsibility carried over a lifetime and across generations? Gestures of a body hold and extend the duty of repeated exhaustion passed on from one generation to the next as an act of respect.
mihyun maria kim is an interdisciplinary artist based in Toronto, researching (un)translatable affects shaped by languages entangled with unresolved historical grief and transmissions of longing. Exhaustion of the body, repetition of movement, fragments of hi/stories, and suspended feelings are explored between memory and imagination across space and time. Through relational methodology, her multivocal outcomes take in/visible form in poetry, painting, performance/activations, audio/video, site-specific installation, community-based round tables and public art.
IMAGE CREDIT: mihyun maria kim, (detail of performance) Harbour and release of han, 2023.
WAHC wishes to acknowledge the Ontario Arts Council, the City of Hamilton, the Province of Ontario, CUPE National, the Canada Council for the Arts, Canada’s Building Trades Unions, OPSEU/SEFPO and Teamsters Local Union 879 for their support of our exhibitions and ancillary programs.
For more information, please contact Sylvia Nickerson, Programming and Exhibitions Specialist, at (905) 522-3003 ex. 29 or sylvia@wahc-museum.ca.
