so I’m known as a korean-american global
new media artists scholar and educator
and I live and work between Seoul South
Korea New York and Baltimore the minute
own studio is located in k-town studios
building in little Korea of Baltimore
City where I consider my home base
because I teach at the Maryland
Institute College of Art but if I told
you I was North Korean would you believe
me if I talked to you like this sir
anemia Hangul melo Angela serotonin
pecans are a minute are Akuma ramyun
it’s hard to know what’s real in a world
full of fake news so one of the things
that a global Korean can pay attention
to is a division between South and North
Korea that echoes the many worlds that
are religiously economically culturally
and politically divided so if a country
like Korea is split so should the
artisan practice therefore I work as a
South Korean Mina Chun new media artist
and I also work as a North Korean social
realist painter Kim is soon the type of
work that I make as a South Korean new
media artist is known as poly PHA short
for political pop art and it sounds a
lot like lollipop it takes global
political concerns and mix them up with
popular culture and media and make
this is myself collaborating with an
architect partner named Gabriel kroy’s
professor of Morgan State University and
when we first collaborated together in
2006 as a South Korean artists we worked
on creating gigantic diamonds these
diamonds were created by fluorescent
light and wooden structure and people
were able to move through them and see
them from afar the piece however was a
sharp critique on lay capitalism and
cultural whiteness that dominated Asian
countries that modernized and
westernized overnight such as South
brought to Baltimore diamonds like
Baltimore that was featured in light
city 2016 they turned blue by being blue
they referenced the already existing
light installation all around the city
known as the police surveillance blue
lights in the anniversary of Freddie
Gray’s passing this exhibition where the
city opened up like a public museum by
the harbor allowed people to come out at
night thousands of people gathered by
the harbor to look at light art in
varying sizes from four feet to 17 feet
tall these diamonds were created with
LED and aluminum structure and people
love taking photos in them lots of
selfies a couple even got married by
them and a 300-pound man decided to
climb on the seventeen tall diamond
structure but as a North Korean artist
my art persona Kim is soon is a social
realist painter and a naval commander a
farmer a scholar mother of two married
to the state and most importantly a
human being when she paints she paints
messages that are subtle yet bold here
in sons of chose Han which exemplifies
choice han the last United dynasty of
Korea and the twinning effects of a
country that is split the two brothers
represent both North and South Korea Kim
is soon made her first public appearance
in the United States in 2013 she got out
of a New York City yellow cab and
to an Art Fair this is the pulse Art
Fair and there she is
marching giving peace buttons that said
make art not missiles shoot water not
bullets and occasionally when she had a
little bit of time she browsed around
and looked at contemporary art so Meena
Chun that’s me
aka Kim you soon makes art about North
Korea her me I we make art that brings
awareness about the love and exchange
that exists within the two Koreas that a
lot of people actually don’t know about
this is the box of choco pie do you know
choco pie
I love choco pie it is also a very
popular snack it’s like Moon Pie sort of
like American Twinkie right created by a
South Korean manufacturing company
Audion that became an overnight
sensation and smuggled good in North
Korea after North and South Koreans work
jointly at the Kaesong Industrial
Complex South Koreans as a token of
appreciation gifted chocopie
to North Korean workers now worth more
than three bowls of rice each one of
these choco pies is still one of the
most favoured and desired goods in North
Korea individually wrapped with the
Chinese character Chun it means love and
friendship and this is a kind of
exchange and love that has been going on
for years an open communication between
the two countries a step towards
unification and global peace did you
know about this
so as an artist I was able to create an
art installation of 10,000 choco pies
for the audience to eat the piece is
titled eat choco pie together and was
shown at the Ethan Coen gallery in New
York and it allowed American audience to
here’s mr. Cohen enjoying some choco pie
as well as a famous Fluxus artist
Jeffrey Hendricks as well as others
tasting choco pie by tasting choco pie
they are able to concentrate on how
North Koreans also have desire and love
in a way it’s humanizing North Koreans
when the rest of the world
impression our North Koreans to be
backwards an animal like so
Korea has gone through a sweet
revolution that many people around the
world does not know all throughout this
time my art persona North Korean Kim you
soon has been painting and painting
tirelessly this is her children Kim Seon
Kim Jun also my children Gerson and
Sasha multiplying in a field of red in
great uniformity and you could see such
paintings as prints and posters as a
giraffe’s of our time currently
displayed at the contemporary wing of
Baltimore Museum of Art but it is only
in human students dreams that she can
dream abstraction it’s because the state
only mandates a propaganda style that is
strict and social realists way of
painting
and by dreaming abstraction she’s able
to use brazen pink dripping all over her
canvas and also liberate herself
unconsciously from the regime she also
in her dreams dreamt the unification
flag and dipped it in Yves Klein
international blue which is a very
spiritual color do you recognize this
flag this was the flag that was used
during the Pyongyang Winter Olympics
both North and South Koreans marched
together underneath the third flag
Korea’s unification flag not the ROK
flag not the DPRK flag as an extended
version of Kim Yuna soon OMA meaning
mommy in Korea rises above and descends
to pectus on the mystical mountain
between North Korea and China
she is between all three flags she also
in her dreams waves the unification flag
in mass games a mob presents herself as
an alternative solution to unification
and global peace mommies power this is
feminine power and spirit that is
different than what the Dear Leader
fathers of the world have not yet
displayed cooperation cultural diplomacy
and a step towards peace so at the Ethan
Coen gallery the exhibition on ma mass
games motherly love North Korea was
shown and displaying different types of
imagery of North Korea and its heavenly
presentation earthly everyday mass game
a three-level gallery included this
underground world where you would see 10
DVD like players they are called no tell
players and no tell players are smuggled
in through China and used for North
Koreans to watch foreign media in this
exhibition the audience could come in
and watch the videos created by kim
moosung professor kim and they are art
history lessons with the themes of art
and life food money and power
feminism social justice technology and
the environment and these videos
simultaneously were sent into the DPRK
with rice and medicine as well as other
media throughout the exhibition time as
once these helium balloons going over
the DMZ and into North Korea had bags of
choco pies today media and information
penetration into North Korea is making
its way through USBs it’s a global trend
with information like kpop k-wave k
cinema hollywood blockbusters wikipedia
and religious content kim assumes video
art art history lessons have been going
in as well in the hundreds and
disseminated through the underground
channels of north korea now why is this
important
some people predict that there is a
Pyongyang Spring right at the corner
media infiltration is a way to send
information about the world that
everyone else has access to so my work
regime and state aside all North Koreans
have the right to be able to access
information like everyone else in the
world and even learn art history so here
is a clip of Professor Kim with lesson
one on art history what is art and what
hello welcome my name is Professor Kim
and I am here to teach you art history
this is art history lesson one about
what is art and what is life part one is
this art is this art this is art in 1917
an artist named Marcel Duchamp
called this object the art fountain what
was happening in 1917 it was around the
end of World War one and he was asking
what is art many artists around the
world were asking what is art and what
is life in 1917 he showed the fountain
in an organization exhibition by the
Society of independent artists
and people that then were so afraid of
what it was
it was displayed at the very very very
back and not in the main exhibition so
let’s describe what it is
what do you see it is a toilet a toilet
as art yes hot down gungi numbed up
yeonggi males urinal it’s made out of
porcelain how is this art we can see
there are three things about this that
makes it kind of look like art like a
sculpture one it is an object on a
pedestal and two it is in an exhibition
and three it has an artist signature
what is an artist’s signature it is the
name signing of the artists it belongs
to the artists who created the art but
let’s look at the signature by Marcel
Duchamp and fountain
it does not say Michele Duchamp
it says our da mutt and I go on to
explain while Professor Kim goes on to
explain that our mutt has many meanings
what works is the manufacturing company
that created the toilet mutt was a
cartoon character from popular culture
and RM was the acronym for ready-made
which gave birth to conceptual art so
Marcel Duchamp by signing his art with
multiple names was by many ways saying
he is co-signing authorship with life
with things from everyday life so can
you imagine North Koreans watching this
it looks like you were being educated
too it was purposely made as if they
were children educational TV shows and
I’ve heard that it’s been educating
American adults just the same now when I
think about forging the future and the
role of the artist the artist like
myself can help forge a way into the
future provide insight to global peace
in my particular case by bringing North
Korean awareness by doing projects about
cultural diplomacy but there’s another
thing going on that has to do with the
language that is used by artists when it
comes to forging forging has a very
creative
bility like the way to shop forged his
signature or like the way
Mina Chan aka ki-moon soon is
appropriating a North Korean art persona
the difference between appropriation art
and fake news however is that the
artists intention is clear the purpose
is deliberate whereas with fake news the
meaning purpose and agenda is always
ambiguous so let’s make more art with
clear messages and less fake news thank
you [Applause]
new media artists scholar and educator
and I live and work between Seoul South
Korea New York and Baltimore the minute
own studio is located in k-town studios
building in little Korea of Baltimore
City where I consider my home base
because I teach at the Maryland
Institute College of Art but if I told
you I was North Korean would you believe
me if I talked to you like this sir
anemia Hangul melo Angela serotonin
pecans are a minute are Akuma ramyun
it’s hard to know what’s real in a world
full of fake news so one of the things
that a global Korean can pay attention
to is a division between South and North
Korea that echoes the many worlds that
are religiously economically culturally
and politically divided so if a country
like Korea is split so should the
artisan practice therefore I work as a
South Korean Mina Chun new media artist
and I also work as a North Korean social
realist painter Kim is soon the type of
work that I make as a South Korean new
media artist is known as poly PHA short
for political pop art and it sounds a
lot like lollipop it takes global
political concerns and mix them up with
popular culture and media and make
this is myself collaborating with an
architect partner named Gabriel kroy’s
professor of Morgan State University and
when we first collaborated together in
2006 as a South Korean artists we worked
on creating gigantic diamonds these
diamonds were created by fluorescent
light and wooden structure and people
were able to move through them and see
them from afar the piece however was a
sharp critique on lay capitalism and
cultural whiteness that dominated Asian
countries that modernized and
westernized overnight such as South
brought to Baltimore diamonds like
Baltimore that was featured in light
city 2016 they turned blue by being blue
they referenced the already existing
light installation all around the city
known as the police surveillance blue
lights in the anniversary of Freddie
Gray’s passing this exhibition where the
city opened up like a public museum by
the harbor allowed people to come out at
night thousands of people gathered by
the harbor to look at light art in
varying sizes from four feet to 17 feet
tall these diamonds were created with
LED and aluminum structure and people
love taking photos in them lots of
selfies a couple even got married by
them and a 300-pound man decided to
climb on the seventeen tall diamond
structure but as a North Korean artist
my art persona Kim is soon is a social
realist painter and a naval commander a
farmer a scholar mother of two married
to the state and most importantly a
human being when she paints she paints
messages that are subtle yet bold here
in sons of chose Han which exemplifies
choice han the last United dynasty of
Korea and the twinning effects of a
country that is split the two brothers
represent both North and South Korea Kim
is soon made her first public appearance
in the United States in 2013 she got out
of a New York City yellow cab and
to an Art Fair this is the pulse Art
Fair and there she is
marching giving peace buttons that said
make art not missiles shoot water not
bullets and occasionally when she had a
little bit of time she browsed around
and looked at contemporary art so Meena
Chun that’s me
aka Kim you soon makes art about North
Korea her me I we make art that brings
awareness about the love and exchange
that exists within the two Koreas that a
lot of people actually don’t know about
this is the box of choco pie do you know
choco pie
I love choco pie it is also a very
popular snack it’s like Moon Pie sort of
like American Twinkie right created by a
South Korean manufacturing company
Audion that became an overnight
sensation and smuggled good in North
Korea after North and South Koreans work
jointly at the Kaesong Industrial
Complex South Koreans as a token of
appreciation gifted chocopie
to North Korean workers now worth more
than three bowls of rice each one of
these choco pies is still one of the
most favoured and desired goods in North
Korea individually wrapped with the
Chinese character Chun it means love and
friendship and this is a kind of
exchange and love that has been going on
for years an open communication between
the two countries a step towards
unification and global peace did you
know about this
so as an artist I was able to create an
art installation of 10,000 choco pies
for the audience to eat the piece is
titled eat choco pie together and was
shown at the Ethan Coen gallery in New
York and it allowed American audience to
here’s mr. Cohen enjoying some choco pie
as well as a famous Fluxus artist
Jeffrey Hendricks as well as others
tasting choco pie by tasting choco pie
they are able to concentrate on how
North Koreans also have desire and love
in a way it’s humanizing North Koreans
when the rest of the world
impression our North Koreans to be
backwards an animal like so
Korea has gone through a sweet
revolution that many people around the
world does not know all throughout this
time my art persona North Korean Kim you
soon has been painting and painting
tirelessly this is her children Kim Seon
Kim Jun also my children Gerson and
Sasha multiplying in a field of red in
great uniformity and you could see such
paintings as prints and posters as a
giraffe’s of our time currently
displayed at the contemporary wing of
Baltimore Museum of Art but it is only
in human students dreams that she can
dream abstraction it’s because the state
only mandates a propaganda style that is
strict and social realists way of
painting
and by dreaming abstraction she’s able
to use brazen pink dripping all over her
canvas and also liberate herself
unconsciously from the regime she also
in her dreams dreamt the unification
flag and dipped it in Yves Klein
international blue which is a very
spiritual color do you recognize this
flag this was the flag that was used
during the Pyongyang Winter Olympics
both North and South Koreans marched
together underneath the third flag
Korea’s unification flag not the ROK
flag not the DPRK flag as an extended
version of Kim Yuna soon OMA meaning
mommy in Korea rises above and descends
to pectus on the mystical mountain
between North Korea and China
she is between all three flags she also
in her dreams waves the unification flag
in mass games a mob presents herself as
an alternative solution to unification
and global peace mommies power this is
feminine power and spirit that is
different than what the Dear Leader
fathers of the world have not yet
displayed cooperation cultural diplomacy
and a step towards peace so at the Ethan
Coen gallery the exhibition on ma mass
games motherly love North Korea was
shown and displaying different types of
imagery of North Korea and its heavenly
presentation earthly everyday mass game
a three-level gallery included this
underground world where you would see 10
DVD like players they are called no tell
players and no tell players are smuggled
in through China and used for North
Koreans to watch foreign media in this
exhibition the audience could come in
and watch the videos created by kim
moosung professor kim and they are art
history lessons with the themes of art
and life food money and power
feminism social justice technology and
the environment and these videos
simultaneously were sent into the DPRK
with rice and medicine as well as other
media throughout the exhibition time as
once these helium balloons going over
the DMZ and into North Korea had bags of
choco pies today media and information
penetration into North Korea is making
its way through USBs it’s a global trend
with information like kpop k-wave k
cinema hollywood blockbusters wikipedia
and religious content kim assumes video
art art history lessons have been going
in as well in the hundreds and
disseminated through the underground
channels of north korea now why is this
important
some people predict that there is a
Pyongyang Spring right at the corner
media infiltration is a way to send
information about the world that
everyone else has access to so my work
regime and state aside all North Koreans
have the right to be able to access
information like everyone else in the
world and even learn art history so here
is a clip of Professor Kim with lesson
one on art history what is art and what
hello welcome my name is Professor Kim
and I am here to teach you art history
this is art history lesson one about
what is art and what is life part one is
this art is this art this is art in 1917
an artist named Marcel Duchamp
called this object the art fountain what
was happening in 1917 it was around the
end of World War one and he was asking
what is art many artists around the
world were asking what is art and what
is life in 1917 he showed the fountain
in an organization exhibition by the
Society of independent artists
and people that then were so afraid of
what it was
it was displayed at the very very very
back and not in the main exhibition so
let’s describe what it is
what do you see it is a toilet a toilet
as art yes hot down gungi numbed up
yeonggi males urinal it’s made out of
porcelain how is this art we can see
there are three things about this that
makes it kind of look like art like a
sculpture one it is an object on a
pedestal and two it is in an exhibition
and three it has an artist signature
what is an artist’s signature it is the
name signing of the artists it belongs
to the artists who created the art but
let’s look at the signature by Marcel
Duchamp and fountain
it does not say Michele Duchamp
it says our da mutt and I go on to
explain while Professor Kim goes on to
explain that our mutt has many meanings
what works is the manufacturing company
that created the toilet mutt was a
cartoon character from popular culture
and RM was the acronym for ready-made
which gave birth to conceptual art so
Marcel Duchamp by signing his art with
multiple names was by many ways saying
he is co-signing authorship with life
with things from everyday life so can
you imagine North Koreans watching this
it looks like you were being educated
too it was purposely made as if they
were children educational TV shows and
I’ve heard that it’s been educating
American adults just the same now when I
think about forging the future and the
role of the artist the artist like
myself can help forge a way into the
future provide insight to global peace
in my particular case by bringing North
Korean awareness by doing projects about
cultural diplomacy but there’s another
thing going on that has to do with the
language that is used by artists when it
comes to forging forging has a very
creative
bility like the way to shop forged his
signature or like the way
Mina Chan aka ki-moon soon is
appropriating a North Korean art persona
the difference between appropriation art
and fake news however is that the
artists intention is clear the purpose
is deliberate whereas with fake news the
meaning purpose and agenda is always
ambiguous so let’s make more art with
clear messages and less fake news thank
you [Applause]
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