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Professor Kyong Park of UC San Diego will provide a keynote address at the Center for Creative Photography. Prof. Park’s work incorporates text, photography, video, installation and new media into his works, a practice that is rooted in research, participation and activism in public spaces. For Park, art is a process of inquiry, examination and articulation of cultures, and a visual language of communication rather than a commodity of productions. Shown in the the image above is Prof. Park’s “24260: The Fugitive House,” a vacant house that ‘escaped’ Detroit to travel ten cities in Europe [2001-2008]. His current project is “New Silk Roads,” a series of expeditions between Istanbul and Tokyo, focusing on the relational conditions of Asian cities within the geography of globalization, which was presented in a solo exhibition at Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y León in 2009-2010, along with the publication of a monograph on this project with Actar in Barcelona expected in 2011.
Prof. Park’s talk is part of two events on campus. First “Wonders and Witness: Contemporary Photography from Korea” an exhibition of Korean photographic works. Second, “Embracing Counternarratives for Global Learning: Globalizing the Community College Curricula Conference 2024” a conference for community college educators.
INFO: ceas.arizona.edu
This event is free and open to the public.