Hee Jo Kang

About

 Hee Jo Kang(she/her) is a researcher who has an interest in seeing things through a camera lens, film to moving image and broader subculture inspired by those. Her concern starts from how we can bring these into the realm of curatorial that we have traditionally dealt with differs from. Not only artworks themselves, but also she keeps an eye on the surroundings especially ‘immersive experience/space’ like the relationship between institutions, artists and audiences. Existentialism of space and individuals, more like how can institutions present works in line with artists’ intentions and how can audiences more effectively engage with artworks, elaborating further, it extends to intimacy issues about audiences and public. Sometimes modern institutions fail to deal with their white cube space and the concept of a ‘black box’, transcending boundaries of both, neglecting to consider that their actions inflict more harm than good. This is also connected to audiences’ interpretation and even aesthetic experience, furthermore, it impacts the existence of the artists, even seeks to venture beyond pre-determined/fixed images from White western’s perspectives.

 She makes efforts to understand these points through her curatorial and methodology. Bring film and moving images into the realm of contemporary art, from constructing an immersive environment to mapping audience flows, dealing with the way of installing individual artworks, and decentralising, in order to discourse comprehensively. Hee Jo received her BA degree in Art History and Theory from the College of Fine Arts, Hongik University (Seoul, South Korea) in 2023 and received MA degree in Curating Contemporary Art from the Royal College of Art (London, UK) in 2024. Her recent achievements include a final show No Passive Mingling (London, UK), film screening programme Weirder (London, UK), co-writer of subculture publication Recipe (Seoul, South Korea) as a member of South Korean subculture collective Misikhoe and writer of independent music discourse publication series Phonograph Edition on Unlimited Edition (Seoul, South Korea), curated shows Annihilation (London, UK), http://body.download.manual (Seoul, South Korea) and Text of Warm and Cold (Seoul, South Korea).