2021 Review
2021 was a year of solemn reckonings, difficult decisions, regrets and yet, love and hope. As we near the new year, I’m writing with a sense of humbleness and gratitude, longing for friends far and near. Here, I’m compiling a list of projects I lead or participate in, in order to recognize and thank the people who were involved.
Major projects
Interweaving Poetic Code, Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile, Hong Kong, S.A.R, 5.1~8.5, 2021
Artistic direction by Taeyoon Choi with Curator: Takahashi Mizuki, Artists: Aarati Akkapeddi, Andreas Angelidakis, Laura Devendorf, Christine Sun Kim, KOBAKANT, Amor Munoz, Rebirth Garments.
Interweaving Poetic Code (시-코드-실), Art Sonje Center, Seoul, South Korea, 10.14~12.12, 2021
Artistic collaboration by Taeyoon Choi and Allison Parrish, Cezar Mocan, Christine Sun Kim, Companion–Platform, Cori Kresge, Ebenezer School & Home for the Visually Impaired, Everest Pipkin, Filip Wolak, Jerron Herman, Jessica Lynne, Ji Hye Chung, Jonathan Dahan, Mark Allen, Minhwi Lee, Nick Montfort, Sub9, Ye Seom Ahn, Yehwan Song and more.
Distributed Web of Care: garden.local, Paju, South Korea
Artist: Taeyoon Choi, Curatorial Advisor: Sung-eun Kang, Creative Producer: Jaemin Shin, Lead Technologist: Cezar Mocan, Hardware engineer: Donghoon Yi, Software engineer So Sun Park, Graphic Designer: Beomjun Kim, Onsite Assistant: Hyunseo Kim, Archive Assistant: Minhae Bak, Screen Print: SAA / Sanha Lee, Sunghun Jung, Text and Ekphrasis: Chaejung Shin, Translation and Editing: Maya West, Sound: Y2K92, Video: Sooyun Ga, Photo: Cheolki Hong.
Books
Magical World of Numbers: Inverse Function, Taeyoon Choi Studio, 2021
Interweaving Poetic Code, Art Sonje Center, 2021
(Both books designed by Yena Yoo. Information about the books coming soon)
Group exhibitions
Magical World of Numbers: Inverse Function of Light and Darkness, Catastrophe and Recovery(재난과 치유), Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea, 5.22~8.1, 2021, Catalogue
Project Coordinator: Sunho Park, Graphic Design: Yena Yoo, Screen Print: SAA / Sanha Lee, Sunghun Jung, Code: Bohyun Jung, Translation: Suhyun Choi
CCTV.LIVE, CAMP After Media Promises, Nam June Paik Art Center, Yongin, South Korea, 11.25.2021~2.27.2022
Artistic collaboration with CAMP(Shaina Anand, Ashok Sukumaran) and Seoul Express(Youjin Jeon, Minki Hong)
Caring Society(돌봄사회), Gyeongnam Art Museum, Changwon-si, South Korea, 10.29.2021~2.6.2022
Unlimited Edition Seoul Art Book Fair, Platform-L, Seoul, South Korea, 11.11~11.14, 2021
Talks and workshops
Tomorrow’s Archives: Distributed Web of Care, Southland Institute, Los Angeles, USA, 1.16.2020
Distributed Web of Care, CTM Festival, Berlin, Germany, 1.18.2021
La Nuit des Idées(사유의 밤), l’Institut Français de Corée du Sud, KOTE, Seoul, South Korea, 1.28.2020
Panel: Cho Han Haejoang, Gong Jiyoung, Christopher Gaudin
Magical World of Numbers: Creative Coding Workshop, Iium Center, Seoul, South Korea
Co-teachers: Stuckyi Studio, Bohyun Jung, Suhyun Choi
Access Breach: Radical Visibility with Rebirth Garments(Sky Cubacub), CHAT, Eaton HK, 7.2.2021
Summer School of Unlearning, beuys on/off, Goethe Institut Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Participating Artists: Malika Umarova, Marat Raymkulov, Nargiza Ryskulova, Talgat Dzhumashev, Dariya Temirkhan, Dana Iskakova, Maya Sagym, Medina Bazargali, Hina Omukai, Saya Kunikiyo, Nozomu Matsuura, Kewserjan Irihama, Sojin Kwak, Yunji Song, Chaejung Shin
Associates: Taeyoon Choi, Jung-Yeon Ma, Gulnara Kasmalieva, Muratbek Djumaliev, Aigerim Kapar, Jaemin Shin
Poetic Emergences, Discussion Forum for Interweaving Poetic Code, Keynote conversation with Alexander R. Galloway and Amy K.S. Chan. CHAT, Hong Kong, S.A.R. 4.16.2021
Careful Networks, Phoenix in partnership with BOM, Furtherfield, The Photographers’ Gallery, QUAD and Vivid Projects, the U.K.
Care & Accountability, Transformer Summit, FACT Liverpool, Transmediale (Berlin) and Waag (Amsterdam) 9.23.2021
Panel with Salvatore Iaconesi and Oriana Persico, Aris Papadopoulos
Taeyoon Choi: Lichenous Networks, Yale School of Art Paul Rand Lecture Series, 11.30. 2021
Print publications
Community Code: A thing, something, everything and nothing, The Community and the Algorithm: A Digital Interactive Poetics, Vernon Press, Wellington, Delaware, USA & Málaga, Spain
Equity on the Distributed Web, DEEM Journal, Issue Three, Envisioning Equity, Los Angeles, USA
Learning from Lichens, ArtAsiaPacific, Issue 126, Hong Kong, S.A.R.
Essay for Korean translation of How to do nothing by Jenny Odell, PILLOW, Seoul, South Korea
Digital publications
Distributed Web of Care: A Primer for Distributed Webs, CTM Festival, Berlin, Germany, July 2021
On Unlearning Conceptions Around Disability, Broadcast, Pioneerworks, Brooklyn, New York, 8.20. 2021
A Guide for Co-creating Access & Inclusion, Creative Independent, Brooklyn, New York, 8.20. 2021
Oddkins, Processing Community Catalog, Processing Foundation
최태윤 & 정보현, 다르게 배우는 사람을 위한 예술적 표현의 확장, 온라인 이음
Press
Tech as Art: Supporting Artists Who Use Technology as a Creative Medium, National Endowment for the Arts, Washington D.C., USA, 6.30.2021
Nick Yu, Interweaving Poetic Code Links Textiles with Coding, Ocula, July 21, 2021, Auckland, New Zealand
e-flux, Interweaving Poetic Code
유층근, 코드가 섬유라는 물질로 재탄생한다면, Be(attitude)
And some people I worked with, or have helped me out as friends and mentors.
Thanks.
If you have any questions, contact studio@taeyoonchoi.com
