Sunday June 23, 6:30pm
In Conversation: Peggy Ahwesh and Soyoung Yoon
Peggy Ahwesh, “Border Control”, 2019, 4-channel HD video, 4 minutes 10 seconds, dimensions variable – Image courtesy of the artist and Microscope
Microscope is very pleased to present a conversation on Sunday June 23 at 6:30pm between Peggy Ahwesh and Soyoung Yoon in connection with Ahwesh’s third solo exhibition at the gallery “CLEAVE”. We are also pleased to announce that the exhibition has been extended through Sunday July 1st.
In “CLEAVE” Ahwesh encapsulates through four multi-channel video works many of the serious events and issues facing the U.S. today including the border wall, the refugee and environmental crises, LGBTQ rights, and the nearly two-decade long “war on terrorism”. The exhibition reflects upon the ways in which our understanding and expectations are shaped by the dissemination of information through the media, and how our beliefs and opinions can be simultaneously unifying and polarizing.
More info about the exhibition can be found HERE.
Soyoung Yoon is Assistant Professor and Program Director of the Art History & Visual Studies at the Department of the Arts, Eugene Lang College, The New School. Yoon is also a Visiting Faculty at the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study Program (ISP). She received her PhD from Stanford University, and holds a BA from Seoul National University. Yoon is at work on two book projects around the re-definition of the “document” from the post-war period to the present: Walkie Talkie and TV Buddhas. She has published in Grey Room, Discourse, Women & Performance, Millennium Film Journal, among other journals and books. Yoon’s essay “Do a Number: The Facticity of the Voice, or Reading Stop-and-Frisk Data” was awarded a Creative Capital | Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant in 2016. She is currently a recipient of a Hauser & Wirth Research Fellowship for her work on the artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha.
Peggy Ahwesh is a media artist who got her start in the 1970’s with feminism, punk and amateur Super 8 filmmaking. Her works have recently exhibited at The Kitchen, New York; Foxy Production, New York; Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Los Angeles; Maccarone, New York; Salon 94, New York; Murray Guy, New York; Chateau Shatto, Los Angeles, CA; Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, Berwick-upon-Tweed, UK; Gasworks, London, UK; and Arts Santa Mònica, Barcelona, Spain; among others. Her films and videos have been shown worldwide including at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; New Museum, New York; Film at Lincoln Center, New York; MoMA PS1, Queens, NY; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA; The Tate Modern, London, UK; British Film Institute (BFI), London, UK; Guggenheim Museum, Bilboa, Spain; among many other institutions. Ahwesh has received grants and awards including from the Jerome Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, Creative Capital, NYSCA and the Alpert Award in the Arts. She was born in Pittsburgh, PA and currently lives and works between Brooklyn, NY and the Catskills.