Drawing Workshop with Yaloo

As part of Yaloo's residency at 836M, we offer this opportunity to connect with Yaloo and experience her creative process.

Inspired by Yaloo's time in San Francisco and her art and literary research, the workshop will center around developing compelling senior characters and exploring the lives of older protagonists. This event uses app technology, so smartphones are required.

Yaloo's newest project, to be unveiled in December, explores the development of and culminates in a multi-media art installation featuring experimental animated shorts about Shin In Ho, an 86-year-old female Korean KPOP idol who is also a notorious pirate of the East Asian Ocean.

Yaloo earned a BFA and MFA in video art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has been selected for fully funded international residencies such as Zer01ne and Asia Culture Center in Korea, the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum in Japan, Western Front and La Bande Video in Canada, the Headlands Art Center, and Bemis Studio Art Center in the USA. She was also awarded a Lyn Blumenthal Memorial Scholarship by Video Data Bank and won a Gold Prize in visual arts from the AHL Foundation in New York. Last year, she was part of a duo show at FACT Liverpool, UK.

Since the recent pandemic, Yaloo spent a significant time in Seoul. This experience helped her initialize Underwater Trilogy - Homo Paulinella the Lab, Pickled City, and Birthday Garden. All three chapters of the trilogy project capture a unique sense of contemporariness proper to the East Asian metropolis, where centuries of time and the dramatic pulses of our planet in the Anthropocene can be accessed in a small alley.

Through her work, she attempts to take a post-colonial, post-Western-centric, and post-human-centric approach to new media art by imparting a DIY production pipeline for immersive storytelling and interdisciplinary collaboration. There is rich creative potential to be appreciated in DIY computer graphics productions and immersive storytelling, especially when independent artists from different cultural, political, and social backgrounds take control of their creative agency. In the mainstream commercial output of digital media, individual artists perform tasks in a hyper-modernized Fordist process, where a thousand people divide their roles into small pieces. Like many independent media artists, Yaloo attempts to explore radically different visual possibilities through experimental problem-solving and to build her own production pipeline. Ultimately, Yaloo hopes to contribute to the diversity of the media languages in our everyday lives. Yaloo is currently a professor at the Experimental Animation Department at the California Institute of Arts.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

836M Gallery, 836 Montgomery Street, San Francisco, United States