Art Sonje Center, Seoul, is pleased to present the first public talk in Korea by YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES, moderated by the curator and critic Yeon Shim Chung, Ph.D., associate professor of Art Theory and Criticism at Hongik University in Seoul.

YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES

YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES is yhchang.com. Based in Seoul, YHCHI has done their signature animated texts set to their own music in 26 languages and shown many of them at some of the major art institutions in the world, including Tate, London, Centre Pompidou, Paris, Whitney Museum and New Museum, New York. Young-hae Chang (KR) and Marc Voge (US), the two principals of YHCHI, were recent Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Creative Arts Fellows.

Yeon Shim Chung
Yeon Shim Chung received her Ph.D. in art history at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Dr Chung’s research interests encompass both modern and contemporary Western and East Asian art. Before receiving tenure at Hongik, Dr Chung was an assistant professor at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City and a researcher for the exhibition The World of Nam June Paik at the Guggenheim Museum, New York, in 1999. She also curated several landmark exhibitions in New York and in Seoul since 2000, including The Sweet Dew: Since 1980, a special exhibition of the 20th Anniversary of Gwangju Biennial at the Gwangju City Museum. In 2013, Chung compiled the critical anthology of Lee Yil, a major proponent of Dansaekhwa in post-war Korean art (Mijinsa, 2013).