What it means for us to be together: Solidarity, Difficult Histories, and Planetary Futures in the work of Jin-me Yoon

*Please note that registration is not required for this event

Please join us for a free talk by Dr. Ming Tiampo (Carleton University), entitled “What it means for us to be together: Solidarity, Difficult Histories, and Planetary Futures in the work of Jin-me Yoon,” presented in support of Jin-me Yoon’s exhibition, About Time, on view from October 15, 2022 to March 5, 2023.

A Q&A with Tiampo, Jin-me Yoon, and Sara Angel (Founder, Executive Director, and Publisher of Art Canada Institute) will follow the talk.

A catered reception and book sales of the Vancouver Art Gallery publication on Jin-me Yoon’s work will complete the evening.

This event is presented with support from SFU Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology, SFU David Lam Centre, SFU Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, SFU’s Global Asia Program, SFU School for the Contemporary Arts, Art Canada Institute, and the Vancouver Art Gallery.

About the Speakers

Dr. Ming Tiampo is a Professor of Art History, and co-director of the Centre for Transnational Cultural Analysis at Carleton University. She is interested in transnational and transcultural models and histories that provide new structures for understanding and reconfiguring the global. Tiampo’s major projects include Gutai: Decentering Modernism (University of Chicago Press, 2011), Gutai: Splendid Playground co-curated at the Guggenheim Museum in NY (2013), Jin-me Yoon (Art Canada Institute, Forthcoming 2022). Tiampo is an associate member at ici Berlin, a member of the Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational Advisory Board, a member of Asia Forum, a founding member of TrACE, the Transnational and Transcultural Arts and Culture Exchange network, and co-lead on its Worlding Public Cultures project.

Sara Angel is one of the country’s most dynamic and innovative arts leaders. Angel is the Founder and Executive Director of the Art Canada Institute (www.aci-iac.ca) the country’s foremost initiative in promoting Canadian art and making it accessible to twenty-first century audiences through its publishing program, art education, and art fellowships. Angel received her Ph.D. from the University of Toronto where she wrote her dissertation on Nazi-looted art. An adjunct professor at both York University and Western University, Angel teaches courses on art crime and art restitution. She is a contributor to media outlets including The Globe and Mail, ArtNews, Maclean’s, CBC and TVOntario. She has been a guest lecturer at Harvard University, the University of Toronto, Ryerson University, the Royal Ontario Museum and the Israel Museum. Angel lives in Toronto with her husband and three teenage children.

Jin-me Yoon’s early photographic work challenges dominant discourses and stereotypical assumptions about citizenship, nationhood, culture, gender, and race. Expanding her practice to include video and installation, Yoon’s ongoing work utilizes a transnational lens to witness and consider local histories, environments, identities and bodies in the context of entangled and interdependent global relations. She has exhibited extensively across Canada as well as internationally and is represented in numerous public collections. Teaches visual art core undergraduate studio courses, multidisciplinary graduate studio courses as well as contemporary art theory seminars at the graduate and undergraduate levels.