Online Book Talk 〈Bringing Worlds Together〉

The Arko Art Center will host an online book talk titled Bringing Worlds Together as a pre-program for the Residency Invitational Exhibition No Place Like Home.

The program invites Kari Conte, co-editor of the recently published anthology Bringing Worlds Together: A Rethinking Residencies Reader, and contributor Viviana Checchia to share their experiences and insights on artist residency. The anthology features 11 essays and 3 dialogues, reflecting on the role of residencies within the art ecosystem, while emphasizing the values of "ethics" and "care" that are central to this discussion.

• Date : 2024. 11. 10.(Sun) 20:00-
• Location : Zoom meeting(Send link via email)
• Registration : Online registration

*This pre-program provides part of the texts, Bringing Worlds Together, Introduction(by Kari Conte and Susan Hapgood), Rethinking Residencies(by Kari Conte and Nicholas Weist), and Residencies Epistemologies(by Viviana Checchia) to program registrant.

▣ Participant Introductions

Kari Conte

Kari Conte is a curator and writer based in New York and Türkiye, specializing in global contemporary art, focusing on ecological and feminist perspectives. She is a co-founder of Rethinking Residencies and currently serves as a consulting curator for City as Living Laboratory(CALL) and as Senior Advisor at the International Studio & Curatorial Program(ISCP) in New York. In addition, she is Residency Curator for Kai Art Center(Tallinn, Estonia).

Viviana Checchia

Viviana Checchia is a curator, programmer, and researcher active internationally. She is currently Director of Void Art Centre in Derry, and Co-Director of ‘Vessel’, an international curatorial platform based in Puglia, South of Italy. Previous to these roles she was Residency Curator at Delfina Foundation, London, and Public Engagement Curator at the Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow. She has produced and contributed to a range of international projects, including the 4th Athens Biennale(Athens, Greece, 2013).

Yujin Lee

Yujin Lee is an artist and a curator who runs ‘Next Door to the Museum’, alternative artist residency. She has resided in a traditional farmhouse in Jeju island since 2018, where she balances household management, farming, translation, caregiving, and the other creative work. Through a life outside the conventional art world, she aims to foster symbiotic relationships and explore autonomous connections as part of an alternative way of living.