Mills College Art Museum
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Image:
Yoon Heesu, Offering (installation view),
2008, Mixed Media, Courtesy of the artist.
The Offering Table: Women Activist Artists from Korea
Ginger Wolfe-Suarez: AS LONG AS I LIVE YOU WILL LIVE
OPENING RECEPTION: September 6, 4-6pm
Join us at 3pm for a discussion of women’s art and history with curator L. Inson Choy and artist Ginger Wolfe-Suarez.
The Offering Table: Women Activist Artists from Korea
Curated by L. Inson Choy
Often working together in the Seoul-based art collective Ipgim (exhaled air), Ha Insun, Je Miran, Jung Jungyeob, Kim Myungjin, Kwak Eunsook, Rhu Junhwa, and Yoon Heesu explore the history of women’s labor, gender roles and representations, and religion in mixed media installations, folk painting, drawing, and video. The works are informed by an awareness of the emerging feminist art movement in Korea, which challenges patriarchal Confucian values. The artists share a strong desire for socio-political change that stems from their personal experiences and issues that still plague women in the workplace and home today. Collectively, their art resonates with a common history of women struggling to find a voice.
Ginger Wolfe-Suarez: AS LONG AS I LIVE YOU WILL LIVE
Curated by Jessica Hough
Ginger Wolfe-Suarez: AS LONG AS I LIVE YOU WILL LIVE brings together the solo work of Wolfe-Suarez alongside collaborations with her mother, Jeanne Moen Wolfe. According to Wolfe-Suarez, this body of work is “a stab at better understanding both my own personal history as a woman and the history of women in this country which has been historically missing.” Wolfe-Suarez recreates banners from the suffragist and equality movements, which have been burned, destroyed, or lost. She has visited the microfilm collections of libraries, as well as museums, and private collectors and historians’ homes to find information that is often difficult to unearth on women’s activism in the late 1800s and early 1990s.
PUBLIC PROGRAMS:
September 13, Museum Theater, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, 9-5pm
Reception to follow at the Mills College Art Museum, 5:30pm
Places at the Table: Asian Women Artists and Gender Dynamics Symposium
Participants include L. Inson Choy, Patricia Graham, Joan Kee, Hung Liu, Margo Machida, Yong Soon Min, Zhang O, and Mayumi Oda, among others. Co-sponsored by Mills College, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Institute for East Asian Studies, Center for Korean Studies, Center for Chinese Studies, Center for Japanese Studies, Townsend Center for Humanities, and the Korea Foundation.
For more information and online registration (before September 8): http://ieas.berkeley.edu
October 8, Danforth Lecture Hall, Art Building, 7:30pm
Lecture by Ginger Wolfe-Suarez, DON’T STOP WRITING
Wolfe-Suarez is an artist whose pluralistic practice is rooted in conceptual art-making, writing, and political organizing. Her practice is informed by feminist ideas, histories, and theories, and her work often suggests alternative ways of understanding history. In DON’T STOP WRITING, Wolfe-Suarez will discuss the relationships between her practice and text, along with the history of nonviolence and writing.
Museum Hours:
Tuesday-Sunday 11-4pm
Wednesday 11-7:30pm
Monday closed
Admission is free
For more information go to: http://www.mills.edu/museum/
