A map is a story too; a story we can only tell, if we tell it together

A map is a story too; a story we can only tell if we tell it together is a multi-speaker, global online event that charts an imaginary topology interwoven from the lived experiences and artistic practices of its artist contributors of Korean heritage and Asian diaspora working across Global Asias, Europe, and the US. Drawing upon the disrupted coordinates and reflecting on the colonial narratives behind cross-cultural adoption into European contexts, and refugeehood due to genocide, the first session includes presentations from artists Anida Yoeu Ali, Sara Sejin Chang (Sara van der Heide), and Yong Sun Gullach that explore the liminal and productive spaces in “the impossibility of return” through practices that engage with human/non-human subjectivity and relations against a refracted and expansive mystical/other worldly cosmology. In the second session, with artists Beatrice Glow, Mooni Perry, and Youngsook Choi, the program considers the historical interweaving of botany as a resource in colonialist and capitalist enterprises across the Asia-Pacific, to redraw indigenous and interspecies relations as part of contemplating the ongoing challenges of ecological grief and regeneration.