Name: @CPR | Kyoung eun Kang: Care Package VII
Start: 2024-11-22T19:30:00-05:00
End: 2024-11-22T20:30:00-05:00
Location: CPR - Center for Performance Research

@CPR | Kyoung eun Kang: Care Package VII

A continuously evolving performance series where artist and audience explore a care package from the artist's mother in South Korea.
About this Event

Care Package VII is a new iteration of Kyoung eun Kang’s continuously evolving performance series Care Package, which has been developing over the last 15 years. Together, the audience and the artist will explore a care package from her mother in South Korea. Through poetry, sound, movement, and participation, this performance invites the audience into the uniquely intimate relationship that has evolved between the artist and her mother over their period of long separation. As the piece unfolds, we'll unpack the notions of home, care, time, and distance.

Care Package VII is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC).

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Kyoung eun Kang is an interdisciplinary artist born in South Korea and based in New York. Her practice spans performance, video, photography, and installation. Bringing together her Korean heritage and immigrant experience in America, Kang's work transcends geographical and cultural boundaries to capture parallel lives, rituals, and emotions. Her pieces encourage an exchange of interest, curiosity, and empathy across socio-culturally imposed barriers to relationships, forging human connection in an ever-evolving world.
Kang has presented her work both internationally and throughout the United States, with exhibitions in galleries such as A.I.R. Gallery, Collar Works, NURTUREart, BRIC Project Room, and the ISCP project space in New York. Other exhibitions include the Korean Cultural Center in Washington, D.C., the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery in Australia, and the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Korea. She has performed in venues across America, including the Queens Museum, Socrates Sculpture Park, Arario Gallery, FiveMyles, and Essex Flowers in New York, along with The Momentary in Bentonville, AR.
Kang has received residencies and fellowships at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Smack Mellon, Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency, BRIC Media Arts, NARS Foundation, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, the LES Studio Program, ISCP, and New York Foundation for the Arts, among others.
Kang holds a BFA and MFA in painting from Hong-ik University in Seoul, South Korea, as well as an MFA from Parsons School of Design in New York.