NYU Visiting Artist Youngeun Sohn Gives Performances “Crumples” and “Talk in the Dark”—Oct. 15 and 16

Artist Youngeun Sohn will bring a pair of performances—“Crumples” (Tuesday, October 15) and “Talk in the Dark” (Wednesday, October 16)—to New York as part of her October 14-18 artist visit with NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study.

“Crumples” tells the story of human movement through the transformation and degradation of a 100-yard roll of paper made from pulp, seaweed, and starched fabric. In “Talk in the Dark”, a performative lecture, Sohn will navigate a dark theater, flashlight in hand, to share her research on image making, transparency, and invisible labor. Her lecture will focus on lapses in our vision and how our senses fill these gaps. Both events are free and open to the public.

“Youngeun Sohn’s engagement with the seemingly mundane aspects of the world through intervention and performance, call for us to rethink and reexamine our relationship to the world as well as to our bodies,” says Ernest A. Bryant III, clinical assist professor at NYU Gallatin.

These events are supported by Criticism + Value, NYU Gallatin, Silver Art Projects, and Arts Council of Korea.

Youngeun Sohn is a visual artist working between South Korea and the Netherlands. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, from Korea University, Seoul (2012), and an MFA in Graphic Design from Yale School of Art (2018). She attended a residency program at the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture (2019) and Jan van Eyck Académie in the Netherlands (2020). She has given performances at institutions such as the Robert Lehman Library, Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Gallery W139 Amsterdam, Bureau Europa Museum in Maastricht, and Culture Station Seoul 284. In addition, her public intervention venues include Pad Thai Restaurant, New Haven Green Flag Pole, the Blue Bridge in Amsterdam, Chunui Techno Park, and many others.

Crumples
October 15, 2024
7:00–8:00 p.m.
RSVP (must bring government-issued ID for entrance)
This event is limited to 30 attendees. RSVPs will close on Monday, October 14, at 4:00 p.m.

Talk in The Dark
October 16, 2024
6:00–7:30 p.m.
RSVP

For more information, please contact info@criticismandvalue.

Gallatin School of Individualized Study
The school was founded in 1972 as the University Without Walls. In 1976, the school was renamed the Gallatin Division for Albert Gallatin (secretary of the treasury under Thomas Jefferson and the founder of New York University). In 1995, the school took its current name, the Gallatin School of Individualized Study. Gallatin is a liberal arts school within New York University. Students at Gallatin design an interdisciplinary concentration based on their specific interests and career goals. The cornerstone of the Gallatin School is its individualized approach to education. Gallatin puts the individual student first. With the support and guidance of faculty advisers, students design unique courses of study, exploring multiple disciplines or various perspectives on specific areas of study not available in traditional departments.

Silver Art Projects is a non-profit organization that provides artists with free, year-long studio spaces and career development opportunities that accelerate and enhance their artistic practice at 4 World Trade Center. Founded in 2019 in response to change models of structural systems that perpetuate a culture of inequity, Silver Art Projects supports artists with critically needed studio space in NYC to nurtured and build thriving practices while also contributing to the creative ecosystem of Lower Manhattan. In addition to studio space, Silver Art Projects provides professional development opportunities and connections with museum curators, art leaders, galleries, collectors, thought and business leaders, peer to peer and artist mentors, and others to change artist’s lives and enhance careers.

Criticism and Value is an online forum and discussion series co-founded and hosted by ‘The Last Physician of Images’— a morphing avatar-persona that acts as host and interlocuter with guests artists and audience members through the creative reanimation of the visage of the deceased. The series features experimental essays about art and criticism, and live public conversations with living and deceased national and international artists. The other co-founder, Ernest A. Bryant III, is a transdisciplinary artist and critic who interests range from value, aesthetics, conflict, new media, nature, printmaking, and drawing. Bryant earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, a Masters of Fine Arts from the New York School of Visual Arts, and a Masters of Fine Arts from Yale University School of Art.