An exhibition centered on a videoed 1981 performance by Park Hyunki may be, at its core, “about mediation itself.” For Emily Chun, the work raises complex questions not only about Park’s place in Korean art history but the difficulty of viewing past performance work at a mediated remove. Read at the link in bio. #emilychun #parkhyunki #galleryhyundai @emchun @galleryhyundai Images: [1-3] Park Hyunki, Pass Through the City, 1981. Courtesy of the artist and Gallery Hyundai, New York.

Great year

Review of @samuelcguy ’s incredible show at @auxierkline . Catch it before it closes this Friday!

Wrote about Man Ray for the Brooklyn Rail 🌹

I interviewed the legendary Tehching Hsieh for @artinamerica and their Fall icons issue. It’s hard to think of an artist more radical than Tehching whose year-long performances in the late ‘70s not only collapsed art and life, but in their extremity were able to totally confuse the distinctions between recordable ‘clock’ time and subjective ‘lived’ time which Bergson described as a sort of a qualitative indwelling experience of time. Decades later his work remains strange and incomprehensible in the best way. Link in bio 💘

Exhibition Review: “The Making of a New World: Art of the 1980s” at Hollis Taggart Gallery, Chelsea (on view through August 30). Curated by Emily Chun Here is an excerpt from my review on my Substack, Art & Ponder: Retro-cultural nostalgia has filtered into every corner of our lives - film & television programs, books, fashion trends, and now, art exhibitions. The Making of a New World is by no means a mere look back on what was in vogue during the 1980s. If someone were to approach it from that angle, you would just have a show on Warhol, Basquiat, Haring, Schnabel, Krueger, Longo, et al. There’s nothing wrong with these artists as Neo-Expressionism and the Pictures Generation are among the most important modern / post-modern movements that took the American art world by storm. But the reality is that there was a much broader art scene out there concurrent with these major stylistic strains. Hollis Taggart’s in-house curator Emily Chun opens our eyes to the manifold creative developments occurring in American art of the 1980s that considers cultural diversity and visual / material variance. #hollistaggart #hollistaggartgalleries #hollistaggartgallery #1980s #1980sart #80snostalgia #edruscha #charlesbell #julesolitski #keithharingart #keithharing #frankstella #seanscully #johnchamberlain #abstractexpression #abstractexpressionist #figurativerealism #mixedmediapainting #arthistory #historyofart #arthistorian #artcritic #artcritics #artcriticism #artreview #artwriter #artwriting #chelseaart #chelseagalleries #chelseagallery

Very overdue but I figured I should start using instagram again to share some writings - I first saw Rachel’s work three summers ago at Sargent’s Daughters and was utterly gobsmacked. So when @artinamerica asked me to profile her for their summer 2025 issue I was so excited (we discovered we’re both pk’s!). I still feel as I did three years ago that her work is some of the best, most inventive and freaky yet poignant and melancholic sculpture being made today