Afternoon Projects is pleased to announce Woojae Kim’s solo exhibition ‘I hear a silent dissonance’. Opening Jan 24th 6-8 pm.
In conjunction with the exhibition, a live performance by Woojae and Adrian Avendano will take place at Belkin Art Gallery @belkinartgallery on Feb 7th.
Woojae Kim is a Korean artist and writer living on the unceded territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, Musqueam, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples (Vancouver, Canada). His works explore rituals of interdependency and listening to inaudible frequencies of relationships with non-humans and the land.
His work has recently been exhibited in Vancouver (Artspeak, Dreams Comma Delta), Toronto (The Plumb) and New York (Psychic Readings*). His texts were published in the Canadian Art and the Capilano Review. Kim received an MFA from Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College.
I am excited to share a series of music events that I am organizing with Khan Lee and Francesca Bennett.
**Summer Camp Reunion**
August 8th (Friday at 7 PM) @ Afternoon Project
- Ben Bennett
- Julian Hou
- Andrew YongHoon Lee
- Rahul Nair
**Resonance Through the Haze**
August 9th (Saturday at 6 PM) @ Helena Gutteridge Plaza (Vancouver City Hall)
- Gamelan Kembang Telang
- Vanessa Richards & Martin Reisle
- Woojae Kim with Khan Lee, Ben Bennett, and Rahul Nair
+ Readings by Karina Irvine and Michael Turner
I will be posting more detailed information about each event and the participating artists in the coming weeks.
Stay tuned 🎶
This is the last week to view my solo exhibition, Esperanza Window Trap. If you haven't had a chance to stop by, I invite you to visit before it closes.
Psychic Readings*
629 E 6th St, New York, NY 10009
Wednesday–Saturday
12:00–6:00 PM (and by appointment)
"The exhibition is inspired by the Esperanza Window Trap, a device used to attract parasite-carrying blackflies using a Carbon Dioxide source, human sweat, and netting. Kim first began researching chemical markers in 2019 and, by referencing the original Esperanza Window Trap, has forged his own elaborate dispersal system of human semiochemicals, suspended in hand-blown glass orbs. Researchers have located the chemical portrait of the human presence in five molecules: 1-octen-3-ol (interestingly, mushroom alcohol), 1-octanol, acetophenone, hexanal, and ammonium bicarbonate. In the installation, plastic containers of yeast, water, and sugar ferment and feed carbon dioxide—acting as the human breath—through hoses into the glass chambers, compounding the molecules with each passage and dispersing them into the air. The resulting fragrance rewards acute attention, with its full grassiness and base note of earthy mushroom. It is unplaceable but distinct: a rarified portrait of the human presence as perceived by our nonhuman kin."
Excerpt from the exhibition text by Sofia Thiệu D’Amico.
Congratulations to Francesca Bennett on winning the 2023 C New Critics Award. Francesca reviewed my exhibition at Dreams Comma Delta, "With a heart that sings the stars, I will love all things dying". Grateful for your thoughtful reflections. @apricots.apricots
Link in Bio
The conversation between Sean Alward, Alexandra Bischoff, Bopha Chhay, Laiwan, Marina Roy, and me @ Artspeak came out recently. (link in bio)
I was grateful for being in a conversation with such amazing people.
Esperanza Window Trap (2020)
https://canadianart.ca/essays/woojae-kim-the-territory-of-the-unsmelled/
I researched olfactory relationships during the pandemic when breathing was risky and when people became acutely aware of invisible things in the air.
I have been revisiting the unfinished thoughts from this project.
