Jane Jin Kaisen and Guston Sondin-Kung

  • Working with narrative experimental film, multi-channel video installation, performative video art, photography, and text, Jane Jin Kaisen engages themes of memory, trauma, migration and translation at the intersection of personal and collective histories. Her own diasporic story, sent from Jeju island, South Korea to Denmark as an adoptee brought her to think critically about women’s diaspora as a dark shadow of East Asia’s history of modernization. Kaisen's practice is propelled by a sense of necessity and an aspiration for carving out spaces for critical reflection and dialogue. She creates distinct modes of storytelling through layered narratives and experimental usage of voice, image, sound, and archive material. Her artworks resonate as both critical translations and poetic testimonies, gesturing towards emerging communities and embodied memories that linger ghostly at the margins of the seeable and sayable. While each work is driven by its own aesthetic and discursive commitments, together they form a multi-faceted and in-depth inquiry into transnational and gendered histories related to legacies of colonialism, modernity, war, and borders. Guston Sondin-Kung is an American visual artist that lives in Denmark. His artistic practice is situated primarily in the field of narrative experimental cinema and is oftentimes project-based, with a lengthy research component. Recurring themes in his artwork include notions of embodied performance and multi-directional memory.

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Working with narrative experimental film, multi-channel video installation, performative video art, photography, and text, Jane Jin Kaisen engages themes of memory, trauma, migration and translation at the intersection of personal and collective histories. Her own diasporic story, sent from Jeju island, South Korea to Denmark as an adoptee brought her to think critically about women’s diaspora as a dark shadow of East Asia’s history of modernization. Kaisen’s practice is propelled by a sense of necessity and an aspiration for carving out spaces for critical reflection and dialogue. She creates distinct modes of storytelling through layered narratives and experimental usage of voice, image, sound, and archive material. Her artworks resonate as both critical translations and poetic testimonies, gesturing towards emerging communities and embodied memories that linger ghostly at the margins of the seeable and sayable. While each work is driven by its own aesthetic and discursive commitments, together they form a multi-faceted and in-depth inquiry into transnational and gendered histories related to legacies of colonialism, modernity, war, and borders.

Guston Sondin-Kung is an American visual artist that lives in Denmark. His artistic practice is situated primarily in the field of narrative experimental cinema and is oftentimes project-based, with a lengthy research component. Recurring themes in his artwork include notions of embodied performance and multi-directional memory.