Jane Jin Kaisen, Community of Parting, 2019 (video still).
Press release, January 2021
Archive Books presents:
"Community of Parting"
Book release and Online Conversation
with Jane Jin Kaisen and Heidi Ballet
Moderated by Anne Kølbæk Iversen
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On the occasion of the release of the book "Community of Parting"— a conspicuous compendium on the artistic practice of Jane Jin Kaisen – Archive is thrilled to host an online conversation conceived to unfold different trajectories emerging from the book. This conversation will bring together Jane Jin Kaisen, curator Heidi Ballet, who contributed to the book, as well as curator Anne Kølbæk Iversen, co-editor of the publication. The book release follows a program of online screenings of a selection of Kaisen’s films that started in December 2020. Leading up to the book release, a selection of films by Jane Jin Kaisen will remain available in Archive’s online screening room until January 23rd. "Community of Parting" is an extension and continuation of Jane Jin Kaisen's artistic practice. Kaisen brings past and present, the eternal and the temporal into play through layered, performative and multi-voiced, feminist works that explore topics such as memory, war, migration, and borders in a field where individual experiences and collective stories intersect. Her works negotiate and mediate the means of representation, resistance, and reconciliation, thus forming alternative genealogies and sites of collective emergence.
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About the speakers:
Jane Jin Kaisen works with video installation, photography, performance, film, and text. Her practice is informed by extensive interdisciplinary research and engagement with diverse communities. She represented Korea at the 58th Venice Biennale and has shown her works at venues such as Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Arko Art Center, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Palais de Tokyo, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, Times Art Center Berlin, Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul Museum of Art, Kunsthal Aarhus, the Liverpool Biennial, and the Jeju Biennale.
Anne Kølbæk Iversen, PhD, is a researcher, curator, and writer based in Copenhagen. She obtained her PhD in 2019 from Aesthetics and Culture at Aarhus University as part of the research project The Contemporary Condition. 2019–2020 she was affiliated with ARKEN Museum of Modern Art conducting the research project From a Grain of Dust to the Cosmos, studying works from ARKEN’s collection informed by discussions around the Anthropocene and notions of cosmos. Publications include “Visualising the Invisible, Imagining til (Im)possible,” in “ARKEN Bulletin,” vol. 8 (2020); “A Parting Ways While Being With” in Jane Jin Kaisen. “Community of Parting” (2020); “Bodies and Rhythms,” with Sevie Tsampalla, in “The Contemporary Research Intensive” (2018).
Heidi Ballet is a curator based in Berlin with a research interest in the geopolitics of oceans and the psychology of climate chaos. She is currently preparing the 2021 Beaufort Triennial, a public art triennial along the Belgian coast. Exhibitions that she recently curated include the 2019 Tallinn Photomonth Biennial, the 2017 Lofoten Biennial (LIAF) and the exhibition series “Our Ocean, Your Horizon” at Jeu de Paume Paris and CAPC Bordeaux (2016). Between 2012 and 2015, Ballet worked as a research curator on “After Year Zero,” an exhibition project shown at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (2013) and the Warsaw Museum of Modern Art (2015).