About this Event
Feminist Duration Reading Group: Tonight, there’s no place for me to put down my poem
Co-hosted with the Feminist Duration Reading Group, join Taey Iohe and Grace Eunhye Park in exploring enduring issues of migration as well as experiences of displacement and exile. We will collectively read from Maja Lee Langvad’s “She is angry”, Kim Hyesoon’s “Phantom Pain Wings”, and “Rise” by Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner and Aka Niviâna – further framed by Jane Jin Kaisen’s works which, through the engagement with discourse, power, and subjectivity, delineate a contested modernity. Taey Iohe and Grace Eunhye Park session will explore the enduring issues of migration as well as experiences of displacement and exile. We will collectively read from Maja Lee Langvad’s “She is angry”, Kim Hyesoon’s “Phantom Pain Wings”, and “Rise” by Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner and Aka Niviâna – further framed by Jane Jin Kaisen’s works which, through the engagement with discourse, power, and subjectivity, delineate a contested modernity.
Psychological and poetic, the texts provide powerful female enunciations on urgent social concerns including transnational adoption and climate justice, as well as giving insights on how humour, imagination, connection can offer ways of hope and being. Through these three texts, we will reflect on the different social multiplicity of gender and migratory encounters which demand an increasingly complex understanding of the diasporic condition in the concurrent ecological, social, and political crises of our time.
List of texts:
- Extracts from “She is angry: A testimony of transnational adoption” (“Hun er vred: Et vidnesbyrd om transnational adoption”) by Maja Lee Langvad
- Selected poems from “Phantom Pain Wings” by Kim Hyesoon (2019)
- “Rise” by Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner and Aka Niviâna (2018)
There is no expectation to read the texts in advance as we will read out loud, one person and one paragraph at a time, together. Copies of the reading will be handed out during the session.
The title of this event is taken from Kim Hyesoon's poem “Phantom Pain Wings”.
About Feminist Duration Reading Group
Formed in 2015, the Feminist Duration Reading Group (FDRG) focuses on under-known and under-appreciated feminist texts and movements from outside the Anglo-American canon. The group’s free monthly programme, open to all, has encompassed film screenings, performances, workshops, translations, walks, meals, podcasts, writing and listening, as well as collective reading.
About Taey Iohe
Taey Iohe is an artist whose work spans across diverse media, including moving images, sound, social practice and assemblage through an Asian crip/queer lens. Their approach fuses research-based work with personal narratives that challenge socio-botanical entanglements within environmental hormones and climate justice. Taey holds a PhD in the programme of Gender, Identity and Culture, funded by Writing on Borders, at University College Dublin. A member of Feminist Duration Reading Group and co-founder of the Decolonising Botany Working Group, Research Associate at the Centre for Contemporary Art in Derry~Londonderry. They currently teach Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art. (@taey.iohe)
About Grace Eunhye Park
Grace Eunhye Park is a curator and art producer based in London and Seoul. She is interested in narratives stemming from people with diverse backgrounds. Since 2015, she has actively engaged in various exhibitions and collaborations with artists. Recently, she curated Fly and Flock at Chisenhale Studio (2023, London). She was a coordinator of the Korea Artist Prize 2021 at MMCA, production manager for the Korea Pavilion featuring artist Jane Jin Kaisen at the Venice Biennale in 2019, and program and production coordinator of SeMA Biennale Media City Seoul in 2016.
About esea contemporary
esea contemporary is the UK’s only non-profit art centre specialising in presenting and platforming artists and art practices that identify with and are informed by East and Southeast Asian (ESEA) cultural backgrounds.
esea contemporary is situated in an award-winning building in the heart of Manchester, home to one of the largest East Asian populations in the UK. Since its inauguration as a community-oriented visual arts festival in 1986, esea contemporary – previously named Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art (CFCCA) – has continuously evolved to establish itself as a dynamic and engaging space for cross-cultural exchanges in the British art scene, as well as in a global context.
esea contemporary aims to increase the visibility of contemporary art practices from the East and Southeast Asian communities and their diasporas. It is a site for forward-thinking art programmes that beyond exhibitions also include commissions, research, residencies, publishing, and a wide range of vibrant public events. esea contemporary values creativity, compassion, interconnectedness, and collectivity in implementing its mission.
Learn more at: www.eseacontemporary.org/
Photo credit: Joe Smith
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
esea contemporary, 13 Thomas Street, Manchester, United Kingdom
GBP 0.00