sunmi yong 용선미
of everything that is performance

bio

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curatorial  
      silent battle, 2025
      material accumulation(s) / practice time, 2025
      eumpa eumpa, 2023
      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
      delivery garden & magazine 02, 2016      

translation
      fantasia of the archives, 2024
      dictionary of tangled languages, 2024
      performance performance, 2021      

production  
      greenroom, 2019 - present

publication
      art we mind, 2020
      berliner, 2017

contribution
      the third hour, 2023
      newspaper, 2023
      pcs 2021, 2021  

residencies and institutional experiences  
       helsinki international artist program, 2024
      performa, 2023
      ob/scene festival, 2022
      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