IMMABB and EXP: Photographed by Yunji Ko, Courtesy of Series Magazine.
This series of performances spans multiple venues and the entire Asia Contemporary Art Week, presenting a technical perspective on the construction of culture: is culture formed the way an iPhone is built—through a procedure that can be generalized, replicated and even exported? The difference between the cultural and the technical has been defined by philosopher Gilbert Simondon as simply that between closed and open types of systems of control; this is a handbook to opening the black box of culture.
Ho‘s new performative lecture roams over instructional diagrams composed over the past year on “tiger” parenthood and life planning in an Asian/American context. I’m Making A Boy Band is a reverse-engineered K-Pop phenomenon will perform original singles; live performance and fan interaction will be followed by a conversation about cultural exports. And Song will screen and survey his performance work, which perverts administrative tactics like beauty contests, population censuses, or school tests—always twisting the official line but not overstepping it.
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Christopher K Ho
Saint Joseph As Model: on Patriarchy and Parenthood in Art
Presented as part of Field Meeting Take 3
A Signature Program of Asia Contemporary Art Week
Bora Kim, Karin Kuroda, Samantha Y. Shao and EXP
I’m Making a Boy Band (IMMABB)
CP Projects Space at SVA’s MA Curatorial Practice, 132 W 21st St, 10th Floor, New York
November 6th, 7 – 9 pm
SPACE IS LIMITED: PLEASE RSVP TO INFO@ONSCREENTODAY.COM
Song Ta
So, You’re a Big Deal?
November 8, 6:30 – 8 pm
Chinese American Arts Council, 456 Broadway, 3rd Floor, New York
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Song Ta, How to Draw a Cow, video performance, 2013
Christopher K. Ho’s upcoming solo exhibition Leadership opens at Present Company, New York, in on May 1, 2016. Ho has also had solo exhibitions at Fjord Gallery, PA; Y Gallery, NY; Forever & Today, NY; Winkelman Gallery, NY; and Galeria EDS, Mexico City. He participated in the Incheon Biennial (2009), the Chinese Biennial Beijing (2008), and the Busan Biennial (2008); and has created project rooms for the Des Moines Art Center; Fisher Press; and the Delaware Center for Contemporary Art. He lectures at RISD and Virginia Commonwealth University.
I’m Making a Boy Band (IMMABB) is composed of Bora Kim, Samantha Y. Shao and Karin Kuroda. Bora Kim is an interdisciplinary artist and sociologist from Seoul, Korea. Samantha Y. Shao is a project manager, curator and writer from Taipei, Taiwan. Karin Kuroda is a researcher/artist based in New York. Their collaboration through the formation of EXP focuses on cultural research revolving around the spectacle and performance of gender and cultural appropriation, particularly in the context of global media. “I’m Making a Boy Band” has participated in exhibitions at Fisher Landau Center for Art, The Jewish Museum and Judith Charles Gallery, NY. Their work is accessible at www.immakingaboyband.com
Song Ta (born 1988 Leizhou, China) is a young Chinese contemporary artist known for work that intertwines systems of administration with daily life. By playing with both transparency and opacity at the same time, he tests boundaries between the institutional and commercial definitions of art. He received his BFA from Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in 2010 and currently lives and works in Guangzhou. Song’s work have been shown in many international group exhibitions, such as A Hundred Years of Sham-Songs of Resistance and Scenarios for Chinese Nations, Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong; Creating For The Future: Thinking About The Unthinkable, MOMENTUM, Berlin, Germany; among others. His recent solo exhibition The Loveliest Guy (2014) was shown at Beijing Commune. He is currently in New York as a grantee of the Asian Cultural Council.
