Tue 3/2
Tue 3/9 @ 7PM
moCa Cleveland has launched a new project called ‘Getting to Know You,” a residency in which an artist spends the year working on multiple projects.
The artist inaugurating the project is Chicago-based Korean-American Aram Han Sifeuntes, who’s described as a “social practice fiber artist” and performance artist. You can tell she went to art school (School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Maryland Institute College of Art, UC Berkeley) because she’s incredibly good at writing art jargon, such as “My art practice situates itself at the intersection of fiber, social practice, performance, and pedagogy.”
“I confront social and racial injustices against the disenfranchised and riff off of official institutions and bureaucratic processes to re-imagine new, inclusive, and humanized systems of civic engagement and belonging,” she says in her artist statement on her website. “I do this by creating participatory and active environments where safety, play, and skill-sharing are emphasized.”
But her creative impulses began more simply, when she learned to sew as a child, working with her immigrant seamstress mother. That eventually bloomed into the work she does now, both as a visual artist and activist.
She’ll introduce herself to the local community with a “social media takeover” on Tuesday March 2, when she’ll commandeer moCa’s Instagram to “see the world (likely Chicago, where she is based) through her eyes,” according to moCa. Pay too much attention to the Ohio legislature and you’ll want to be in Chicago too!
That will be followed on Tuesday March 9 @ 7pm by a talk about her “Let Us Vote: project, featuring her Official Unofficial Voting Station, which spotlights ways in which some people are left out of the voting process. She’ll talk about how art can draw attention to those who are excluded from participating in civic processes. You can register for that free event here.