Native as Metaphor: Biogeography and Belonging

2023.10.07 – 2023.10.07
The 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale THIS TOO, IS A MAP Conversation Native as Metaphor: Biogeography and Belonging. Artist: Chan Sook Choi. Collaborator: Dr. Matthew Chew. Moderator: Sofía Dourron, SMB12 Associate Curator. Seoul Museum of Art. 2023. 10. 07. Photo: GLIMWORKERS
The 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale THIS TOO, IS A MAP Conversation Native as Metaphor: Biogeography and Belonging. Artist: Chan Sook Choi. Collaborator: Dr. Matthew Chew. Moderator: Sofía Dourron, SMB12 Associate Curator. Seoul Museum of Art. 2023. 10. 07. Photo: GLIMWORKERS
The 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale THIS TOO, IS A MAP Conversation Native as Metaphor: Biogeography and Belonging. Artist: Chan Sook Choi. Collaborator: Dr. Matthew Chew. Moderator: Sofía Dourron, SMB12 Associate Curator. Seoul Museum of Art. 2023. 10. 07. Photo: GLIMWORKERS
The 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale THIS TOO, IS A MAP Conversation Native as Metaphor: Biogeography and Belonging. Artist: Chan Sook Choi. Collaborator: Dr. Matthew Chew. Moderator: Sofía Dourron, SMB12 Associate Curator. Seoul Museum of Art. 2023. 10. 07. Photo: GLIMWORKERS
The 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale THIS TOO, IS A MAP Conversation Native as Metaphor: Biogeography and Belonging. Artist: Chan Sook Choi. Collaborator: Dr. Matthew Chew. Moderator: Sofía Dourron, SMB12 Associate Curator. Seoul Museum of Art. 2023. 10. 07. Photo: GLIMWORKERS
The 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale THIS TOO, IS A MAP Conversation Native as Metaphor: Biogeography and Belonging. Artist: Chan Sook Choi. Collaborator: Dr. Matthew Chew. Moderator: Sofía Dourron, SMB12 Associate Curator. Seoul Museum of Art. 2023. 10. 07. Photo: GLIMWORKERS
The 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale THIS TOO, IS A MAP Conversation Native as Metaphor: Biogeography and Belonging. Artist: Chan Sook Choi. Collaborator: Dr. Matthew Chew. Moderator: Sofía Dourron, SMB12 Associate Curator. Seoul Museum of Art. 2023. 10. 07. Photo: GLIMWORKERS
The 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale THIS TOO, IS A MAP Conversation Native as Metaphor: Biogeography and Belonging. Artist: Chan Sook Choi. Collaborator: Dr. Matthew Chew. Moderator: Sofía Dourron, SMB12 Associate Curator. Seoul Museum of Art. 2023. 10. 07. Photo: GLIMWORKERS

During this talk, artist Chan Sook Choi and Dr. Matthew Chew discuss the artist’s latest work, THE TUMBLE, commissioned by SMB12 and on view at Seoul Museum of Art. Choi introduces the research process that led her to the Arizona desert, the United States, and invites Dr. Matthew Chew, an ecologist and historian, to Korea to talk about various topics surrounding the work, in which the artist explores the biological singularity of the tumbleweed, a species that is formed by the wind and travels away from where it originally grew up. Dr. Chew, elaborates on the concepts of native and exotic species, along with historical and scientific examples that sit outside of usual science and botany frameworks. Choi and Chew discuss and share perspectives around the metaphors used in the fields of art and science to talk about the displacement of earthly bodies, and the complications that constitute them.

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