ISCP Talk
July 28, 2022, 6–7pm

Artists at Work: Ying Chiun Lee with Junghyun Kim

For this Artists at Work, artist-in-residence Ying Chiun Lee will be interviewed by curatorial resident Junghyun Kim about her newest neon text pieces.

At the start of Lee’s ISCP residency in March 2022, she began researching the Asian massage businesses in the New York City region. Focusing on the linguistic qualities of commercial signs, Lee responded to the erotic ambiguity by creating new neon glass works. In her conversation with Kim, she will discuss her background in the study of glass as well as how it evolved during her New York residency.

Ying Chiun Lee’s process-driven work investigates human sexuality. Her research relies on feminist theory, queer ecologies, and Mandarin and English linguistics as she explores sensuality through various imaging processes, narrative methods, and storytelling. In her practice, Lee observes the materiality of glass and uses its fluidity, malleability, and translucency to reflect on the broad spectrum of genders and sexualities.The artist has exhibited work at GMTF Film Festival, Lybster; City Art Space and Joy Gallery, both Rochester, among others.

Junghyun Kim is a curator specializing in Asian contemporary art. She is interested in the relationship between the museum and the audience’s body. Through exhibitions, on/offline performances, community-engaged art and symposiums, Kim explores themes on ways to restore human senses in the digital environment. Her curatorial work has been shown at the Seoul Museum of Art, Buk-Seoul Museum of Art, and Songeun Art Cube, all in South Korea.

This program is supported, in part, by the Taipei Cultural Center in New York; Doosan Art Center; Hartfield Foundation, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council; New York City Council District 33; New York City Council District 34; New York State Council on the Arts and the New York State Legislature; The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation; and William Talbott Hillman Foundation.

6–7pm

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Ying Chiun Lee

Junghyun Kim

Overhead photo of an open Taiwanese dictionary. The pages on the left side of the book have been neatly cut with circular holes, creating a precise empty cylinder, about one inch in depth. Three polaroids are laid on top of the right side of the book, each shows the sign for an Asian massage parlor: “Good Luck Spa”, “Prospect Heights EASTERN SPA Massage and Foot Reflexology” and a sign in Chinese characters. Below the dictionary there is an open book that shows a Time magazine photo of a White man in a Japanese style tiled bath with young Asian spa workers massaging and bathing him.

Compilation of Ying Chiun Lee's research materials including a Taiwanese dictionary, Polaroids, and 1967 'TIME' magazine. Courtesy of the artist

Instagram LIVE of 'Artists at Work: Ying Chiun Lee with Junghyun Kim', 2022

Current and Upcoming Events & Exhibitions

Somewhere Inside: ISCP and the Studio

Through January 20

Exhibition

Sujin Lim: The Land, Dark and Muddy

Through February 7

Exhibition

ISCP Talk
June 28, 2022, 6–7pm

Artists at Work: Pavlo Grazhdanskij with Volk Lika and Anton Varga

For Artists at Work, ISCP’s current resident from Ukraine, Pavlo Grazhdanskij, will speak with Volk Lika and Anton Varga.

In their conversation, they will discuss working with archival and found materials, countering online disinformation, gathering evidence as an art practice, artistic agency during war, and which artistic medium makes sense (if any) in times of crisis.

Pavlo Grazhdanskij researches strategies of representation from the perspective of Ukrainian culture. He addresses problematics of documentary and found material; artistic approaches and manual labor in data processing and collection; dead-ends and turns of logics of sustainable states; biopolitics; reproduction techniques of existence, including themes of cycles, traditions, rituals, fate, authoritarianism, insuperability, and survival strategies; and abstraction, collaborationism, and intentionality. Grazhdanskij has exhibited at Detenpyla gallery, Lviv; Sörnäinen public bomb shelter, Helsinki; and Rosa’s House of Culture, Saint Petersburg among other venues.

Volk Lika is an artist, and organizer based in New York. In 2020 she organized The Always Fresh art space in the foreclosed pizzeria on the Lower East Side of New York and in 2019 founded Cultural Capital Introspection international program (USA-UA), supported by the American Embassy in Kyiv. She is a recipient of the fellowship of Queens Museum Studio Program, Flushing, NY, and and American Academy in Rome finalist. Her work has been shown at the Museum of Art and Design, NY; Queens Museum of Art, NY; PERFORMA, NY; Luminary, St. Louis; the Ross Art Museum in Ohio; and Knockdown Center Gallery, Brooklyn.

Anton Varga is a visual artist and curator born in Uzhhorod, Ukraine, who received his M.F.A. from Kharkiv Academy of Design and Arts, and, since 2015, has been based in New York, NY. As co-founder and member of Open Group, he was a participant of the pavilion of Ukraine at the 56th Venice Biennale (2015) and curator of the pavilion of Ukraine at the 58th Venice Biennale (2019).

This program is supported, in part, by AES+F; New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council; New York City Council District 34; New York State Council on the Arts and the New York State Legislature; The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation; and William Talbott Hillman Foundation.

6–7pm

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Pavlo Grazhdanskij

Pavlo Grazhdanskij, Shelters, 2018, installation

Current and Upcoming Events & Exhibitions

Somewhere Inside: ISCP and the Studio

Through January 20

Exhibition

Sujin Lim: The Land, Dark and Muddy

Through February 7

Exhibition

ISCP Talk
June 21, 2022, 6–7:30pm

Darian Longmire and Demetrius Oliver in Conversation with Alison Kuo

For this in-person event, two United States-based artists will present and discuss their recent work Demetrius Oliver and Darian Longmire, who were 2022 ISCP Vision Fund residents, will be joined by Arts Residency Manager Alison Kuo for this Artists at Work talk. A Q&A with the audience will follow.

Darian Longmire remixes and recolors images adopted from National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) records. He makes paintings, drawings, prints and mixed media, and employs physics and space travel to generate abstraction and political commentary in his art.

Demetrius Oliver is an interdisciplinary artist and educator. Oliver uses a range of commonplace objects and media to create subtle dialogues between matter and site. These site-specific exchanges are realized through improvisatory, installation-based gestures that call attention to the physical and dynamic properties of prosaic materials. Incorporating photography, sculpture, and video, Oliver elevates even the most ordinary objects to explore diverse phenomena in music, science, and thought.

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This program is supported, in part, by Hartfield Foundation; National Endowment for the Arts; New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council; New York City Council District 34; New York State Council on the Arts and the New York State Legislature; William Talbott Hillman Foundation; Wilhelm Family Foundation; and Woodbury Foundation.

6–7:30pm

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