groundings ep 8: Artist Julia Chon on recognizing and archiving han (한) helped expand her communities
Description
Through a conversation that flows through personal trauma, the amplification of Asian American perspectives, and intergenerational affirmation of identity, this episode explores Julia Chon, we get to know the person behind @kimchi.juice and @koreanarchives.
In this wide-spanning conversation with Ki-Sang and Harriet, Julia shares how her relationships with her family, strangers, and artist communities have shaped her career, her understanding of herself, and her understanding of what it means to be Korean.
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You can find Julia’s original artwork on Instagram @kimchi.juice and her archival work @koreanarchives.
Specific artworks mentioned in the episode include:
- ‘Halmeoni’, Julia’s first portrait of a Korean woman
- Julia’s Phillips100 Logo Reimagined
- ‘Crane Dancers’ mural for the Korean Cultural Center in Washington D.C.
Organizations, artists, and community members from the episode include:
- The Korean American Artist Collective (@kaacollective), their 한 (Han) exhibition and their 정 (Jeong) project
- Korean American Story (@koreanamericanstory) and their Legacy Project
- Kelly Towles (@kellytowles), the curator of DC Walls, an annual festival that occurs in October, and Peter Chang (@peterfranklinchang), the co-founder of the former No Kings Collective, the mentors that got Julia hooked on mural painting
- Maria Qamar (@hatecopy), Pakistani-Canadian Artist
- Sandra Sohee Chi Kim, an IDEA fellow at Stony Brook University and the founder of Asian American Justice + Innovation Lab (@aajil_org)
- Ann Kim (@annbkool), owner of Pizzeria Lola (@pizzerialola) in Minneapolis, MN
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groundings, a storytelling project from choa magazine, takes a deep dive into the inner lives of women in the Korean diaspora.
Hosted by Ki-Sang Yi
Music by Haedeun Kim
Follow us on Instagram @choamagazine or visit our website choamagazine.com
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