Kyoung eun Kang

Kyoung eun Kang

  • Performances
    • Islands
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    • Breathing in public
    • Happy Birthday
    • Blanket
    • weathervane
    • Gache
    • 희로애락
  • TRACES: 28 days in Elizabeth Murray's studio
    • Video performance
    • Exhibition view
    • Photos series
    • Watercolor drawings
  • 1402 Seok-Dong
  • Every Morning, Every Evening
  • Care Package
    • Care Package IV
    • Care Package VI
    • Care Package I performance
    • Care Package V
    • Care package III_Eomma (Mother) performance
    • Care Package II performance
    • Care package installation
  • Video
    • Omaha Diary I
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    • Ghost Uncle
    • Lighthouses
  • Family poems
  • Photography
    • A stone from Korea (ongoing series)
    • A family bonsai
    • The Hidden Dimension (A&K)
    • A skin ball (exfoliated skin collected from my mother and me while scrubbing our backs)
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Solo exhibition at Collar Works, Troy, NY
2020
"TRACES: 28 Days in Elizabeth Murray’s Studio" is a multimedia installation focused on a durational performance in response to Elizabeth Murray’s studio. The exhibition includes a video shown in three segments, photographs, watercolor drawings, and displayed objects that belonged to Elizabeth Murray.

Using my body as a medium to revive the Murray studio, I gradually developed a series of actions and movements repeated over the course of a given day.

I set up my camera in a fixed position in the middle of the studio and recorded my daily practice for 28 days. I observed and examined the space, animated her objects through interaction, and created a series of dance movements and watercolor drawings that mirrored the marks on the walls. In addition, during the performance I read fragments of underlined text from Murray’s personal art book collection and intimate, unknown handwritten poetry I found in Murray’s home library.

This exhibition presents a 5 hour-long video that captures the full scope of my daily performance, a series of photographs depicting discrete choreographic gestures from the durational, time-based work, watercolor drawings replicating marks in Murray’s studio, as well several of Murray’s studio objects—such as a ladder, palettes, door and painting tools—which I used as props in my movements.

TRACES: 28 days in Elizabeth Murray’s Studio is a new body of work conceived during my 2019 Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency by Collar Works. - Kyoung eun Kang

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