Special Feature: Jane Jin Kaisen, “Community of Parting”

March 4 - April 10, 2022

The Critical Responses to Anti-Asian Violence (CRAAV) Initiative has partnered with the Center for Advanced Media Studies to bring internationally-renowned artist Jane Jin Kaisen as artist-in-residence to Baltimore and feature her multi-media artwork at the SNF Parkway Theatre.

Jane Jin Kaisen (born 1980 in Jeju Island, lives in Copenhagen) is a visual artist, filmmaker, and Professor at the School of Media Arts, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. She is known for her visually striking, multilayered, performative, poetic, and multi-voiced feminist works through which past and present are brought into relation. Her artistic practice spans mediums of video installation, narrative experimental film, photographic installation, performance, and text. Her work shows how lived experience and embodied knowledge intersect with larger transnational political histories, among others the Korean War and division, the Jeju April Third Massacre, gender marginalization, and transnational adoption.

SCHEDULE OF VIEWINGS AT THE SNF PARKWAY

March 4 - April 10 (Thursdays-Sundays)

APERTURES | SPECTERS | RIFTS, 2016 and STRANGE MEETINGS, 2017, installed artworks in the SNF Parkway building. Open during Parkway operating hours.

April 7 at 7PM

COMMUNITY OF PARTING 2019 will be screened as a single-channel film. The screening will be followed by an artist Q&A and discussion.

April 8, 9, 10

Experience the installed artworks and the screening of two films as part of the Asia North Arts Festival 2022. Featuring single-channel film screenings of The Woman, The Orphan, and The Tiger, 2010 (Theater 3) and Community of Parting, 2019 (Theater 2).

Theatre 2 - Community of Parting

Friday, April 8: 4 pm, 7 pm

Saturday, April 9: 4 pm, 7 pm

Sunday, April 10: 1 pm, 4 pm

Theatre 3 - The Woman, The Orphan, and The Tiger

Friday, April 8: 4:15 pm, 7:15 pm

Saturday, April 9: 4:15 pm, 7:15 pm

Sunday, April 10: 1:15 pm, 4:15 pm

Screenings are free. For seat reservations, please go to: mdfilmfest.com

For more information, see www.craav.org

Jane Jin Kaisen has exhibited and screened her works in a range of contexts internationally. She represented Korea at the 58th Venice Biennale with the film installation Community of Parting which traces a different approach to borders and aesthetic mediation through the Korean shamanic myth of the Abandoned Princess Bari and has participated in the biennials of Liverpool, Gwangju, Anren, Jeju, among others. She was awarded “Exhibition of the Year 2020” by AICA - International Association of Art Critics, Denmark for the exhibition Community of Parting at Kunsthal Charlottenborg and awarded the Montana ENTERPRIZE at Kunsthallen Brandts in Denmark in 2011. Recent solo exhibitions include Parallax Conjunctures at Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (2021), Community of Parting at Art Sonje Center (2021) and Kunsthal Charlottenborg (2020), and Of Specters or Returns, Gallery damdam (2020).

Critical Responses to Anti-Asian Violence (CRAAV) is a scholarly and community-oriented initiative to build anti-racist coalitions across Johns Hopkins University and Baltimore. It takes anti-Asian violence as a site at which to develop intersectional frameworks to engage the heterogenous challenges facing AAPI communities and interrogate the effects of white supremacy on academic knowledge produced about minoritized communities. CRAAV, an interdisciplinary initiative at JHU founded by Erin Chung (Political Science), Clara Han (Anthropology) and H. Yumi Kim (History), launched in Fall 2021 with the generous support of SNF Agora Institute's Faculty Grants Program.

Questions? Contact [email protected].