Jin-me Yoon: Revolving a Set of Relations
October 5, 2024, 2pm
380 Sussex Dr
Ottawa ON K1N 9N4
Canada
The Department of Visual Arts at the University of Ottawa, in partnership with the National Gallery of Canada (NGC), is proud to present Jin-me Yoon as the speaker for the tenth Annual Stonecroft Foundation Visiting Artist Lecture. This event will take place on Saturday, October 5, 2024, at 2pm in the auditorium of the National Gallery of Canada. The University of Ottawa acknowledges that it is located on the unceded territories of the Anishinabe Algonquin Nation, the traditional custodians of this land.
Made possible through the generous support of the Stonecroft Foundation for the Arts, this lecture series is dedicated to fostering dialogue around contemporary art. The Annual Stonecroft Foundation Visiting Artist Lecture Series provides students at the University of Ottawa and the broader public with a rare opportunity to engage with leading Canadian artists.
We warmly invite you to join us for this insightful talk by Jin-me Yoon, either in person at the NGC auditorium or via online stream. The lecture will be delivered in English, with simultaneous French interpretation available.
About Jin-me Yoon
Jin-me Yoon is a Korea-born, Vancouver-based artist whose work explores the entangled relations of tourism, militarism, and colonialism. Since the early ’90s, she has used photography, video, and performance to situate her personal experience of migration in relation to unfolding historical, political, and ecological conditions. Through experimental cinematography and the performative gestures of family, friends, and community members, Yoon reconnects repressed pasts with damaged presents, creating the conditions for different futures. Staging her work in charged landscapes, Yoon finds specific points of reference across multiple geopolitical contexts. In so doing, she brings worlds together, affirming the value of difference.
Over the last three decades, Jin-me Yoon’s work has been presented internationally in hundreds of exhibitions, and she has mentored many students over the years while teaching at Simon Fraser University’s School for the Contemporary Arts. In 2018, she was elected as a Fellow into the Royal Society of Canada; and in 2022, she won the prestigious Scotiabank Photography Award (SPA). Recent monographs include; Jin-me Yoon (SPA/Steidl, 2023), About Time (Vancouver Art Gallery/Hirmer, 2022) and Jin-me Yoon: Life & Work (Art Canada Institute, 2022). For the fall of 2024, Yoon’s work will be presented at Imjingak/DMZ (Paju), the Hammer Museum (LA), Secession (Vienna), the Korean Cultural Centre (Vienna) and on the facade of the National Gallery of Canada as a part of the Leading with Women series.
For more information
Talia M Boileau, Department of Visual Arts, University of Ottawa / T 613 562 5868, arvsec [at] uottawa.ca.
About the University of Ottawa
The University of Ottawa is committed to research excellence and encourages an interdisciplinary approach to knowledge creation. The Department offers attentive teaching and mentoring within a close-knit university community, while also encouraging student interaction with a broad network of art institutions and professionals. For more information, visit Department of Visual Arts..
University of Ottawa MFA Visual Arts
In this bilingual two-year program students take an in-depth look at theories informing contemporary art and image culture. Theory courses provide exposure to contemporary artistic and cultural discourse, and the basis for students’ contextualization of their personal studio work within current art practice and theoretical investigation. The Professional Internship course, in which students can work at one of the many art institutions in the region, or with a professional artist, is a distinctive feature of our program. The deadline for application to the program is February 1st. Information about the application process is available here. Interested candidates are invited to contact Professor Martin Golland, Graduate Program Director for more information: mav-mfa [at] uottawa.ca.
About the National Gallery of Canada:
Ankosé—Everything is Connected—Tout est relié . The National Gallery of Canada is dedicated to amplifying voices through art and extending the reach and breadth of its collection, exhibitions program, and public activities to represent all Canadians, while centering Indigenous ways of knowing and being. Ankosé—an Anishinaabemowin word that means Everything is Connected—reflects the Gallery’s mission to create dynamic experiences that open hearts and minds, and allow for new ways of seeing ourselves, one another, and our diverse histories, through the visual arts. The NGC is home to a rich contemporary Indigenous international art collection, as well as important collections of historical and contemporary Canadian and European Art from the 14th to 21st centuries. Founded in 1880, the National Gallery of Canada has played a key role in Canadian culture for more than a century. To find out more about the Gallery’s programming and activities visit gallery.ca, and follow us on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Instagram. #Ankose #EverythingIsConnected #ToutEstRelié.
Please join us on Saturday, October 5, at 2pm at the NGC Auditorium. If you prefer to attend virtually, register for the live stream of the lecture.
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