Kyuri Jeon + Maggie Wong
Date of Convorsation
10.28.2024
Audio (link)
Themes
- Time travel
- Use of archives
- Personal storytelling to look at socio-political issues
- Layers of history and internationalism
- Moms
- Being born and growing up
- Universal experience of struggle
- Active re-editing
- Bearing witness
- Inheriting politics
Bios
Kyuri Jeon is a South Korean artist and filmmaker based in New York. Jeon works with video, essay, drawing, and installation to explore time, vision, and its implications for the future. Through the lens of intersectionality, she questions ongoing transnational discussions about identity, feminism, decolonization, and cultural translation. Jeon’s work has been featured internationally at MassArt Art Museum, Boston; Mimosa House, London; Konsthall C, Stockholm; Artists’ Moving Image Festival, Glasgow; Festival Film Dokumenter, Yogyakarta; Women Make Waves, Taipei; and DMZ International Documentary Film Festival, Seoul. She is a recipient of a Contemporary Visual Art Award at AHL-T&W Foundation and an award winner at the Asian Shorts Competition at Seoul International Women’s Film Festival. Jeon holds BFA from Korea National University of Arts and MFA from the University of Pennsylvania and Seoul National University.
Maggie Wong is a visual artist and educator who uses research and multidisciplinary art practice to explore political inheritance, memory, and play. Their work builds meaning like a stack of toy blocks, assembling and falling into a relational history rather than fixed narratives in media that include printmaking, sculpture, and installation. This approach acknowledges the impossibility of articulating an entire cultural or political inheritance, embracing Angela Davis's idea that "legacies of past struggles are not static." She holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Her work has been shown at the Chinese-American Museum of Chicago, Mana Contemporary Chicago, Comfort Station, Annas Projects, take care (LA), Temple Contemporary, YBCA, and 99cent Plus, and has been written about in ArtForum and Sixty Inches from Center. Her writing has been published by Yale University Press, Viral Ecologies, The Seen, and the Journal of Art Practice.