sunmi yong 용선미
of everything that is performance
bio
curatorial
dance series -
if i can’t dance, i don’t want to be a part of your revolution, 2022
though we dance, 2021
lingerlingering, 2020
write or move on/around the perimeter of a rectangle, 2018
et al. -
greenroom, 2019 - present
eumpa eumpa, 2023
delivery garden & magazine 02, 2016
production
performa, 2023
ob/scene festival, 2022
translation
(forth coming) fantasia of the archives, 2024
dictionary of tangled languages, 2023
performance performance, 2021
publication
art we mind, 2020
berliner, 2017
contribution
the third hour, 2023
newspaper, 2023
pcs 2021, 2021
other institutional experiences and residences
(forth coming) helsinki international artist program, 2024
seoul museum of art, 2017
ayoung kim studio & national museum of modern and contemporary art korea, 2016
If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want to be a Part of Your Revolution
Curator
Form: Exhibition
Date: July 5 - August 6, 2022
Venue: d/p, Seoul, S.Korea
Artists: Lyon Eun KWON, Ram Han, Hur Yeonhwa, Alex Tatarsky, and Anh Vo
Text: Sunmi Yong, Soyoung Chung, Flora L. Brandl
Graphic design: Macadamia Oh!
Organized by saeseoul society, sohwansa
Supported by Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, Nakwonmusic, Korea Mecenat Association, Arts Council Korea
Stemming from the words of Emma Goldman who led the women’s movement during the early 20th in the US, If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be a part of your revolution focuses on the very movement that these words had created. Once being on a T-shirt sold at a street of NYC, then being a name for the arts institution in Amsterdam, and finally being a title of the exhibition in Seoul. Buttressed by this formless and borderless performance created by the combination of words, this exhibition aims, by inviting artists in various fields such as illustrator, choreographer, dancer, poet, sculptor, designer and metaverse map maker, to grasp and practice the revolutionary values that lied in the ways of queer-ly world making.
Critique by Junyoung Lee in Choom:in