Trying not to be a con, and still texting
I speak in English and read and write in Korean
I like sportswear but I am no sportsman
I do not blow-dry my hair...
I miss conversing in English, but I do not miss being caught off guard.
Currently based in soul
Kyungrim Lim Jang (장경림, *1992, Seoul, South Korea)
Living as a foreigner in communities of different scales—ranging from families to societies—shaped her interest in the construction of the home and how the embedded direction of a desire to belong is manifested across contemporary media. She explores how unspoken agreements are maintained and broken through performative speech and silence. She often observes what is happening at the crossroads of borders, identifications, and the narratives that carry these distinctions. What is amplified, deleted, and distorted during the recording/translation process of a narrative and the motives of the programming are also of her keen interest. She is a co-initiator of an artist collective Slug and Saliva, together with Hannah Sakai.
The collective works with written and spoken expressions to materialize the gap between sound and meaning. She lectured at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Write me at: liimjang [at] gmail [dot] com
Education
2020 – 2022 Academy of Fine Arts Vienna Ph.D. candidate in Philosophy
under the mentorship of Univ. Prof. Dr. Marina Grzinic, Austria
2019 – 2020 University of Arts in Belgrade MA in Cultural Policy and Management
An exchange year, Serbia
2019 Joshibi University of Art and Design,
An exchange semester in MA Art Produce, Japan.
2016 – 2020 University of Applied Arts Vienna '20 MA Transarts,
graduated with distinction, Austria.
2011 – 2015 Rhode Island School of Design '15 BFA Illustration, USA
Selected Group Exhibitions and Performances
2024 "Mouther Tongue" in 'Living Library of Becomings" at VBKoe, Vienna, Austria
2022 "oranges already contained" in Exhibition "Tratado Material" gallery 12-14, Vienna, Austria
2022 "Crystal Clear" in Exhibition “Unfixing” gallery 12-14, Vienna, Austria
2022 Performance “Spellbound" #18, #19, in Festival "Smashing wor(l)ds," Belvedere 21er Haus, Vienna, Austria
2022 Performance "Wannabedr.Jang" on Instagram and in Vienna, Austria
2022 Performance "수상소감" (As all speech are), Anatomisaal, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Vienna, Austria
2022 Performance “Trash-Body,” at TOXIC TEMPLE MESS, Lange Nacht der Forschung, Angewandte Innovation Lab (AIL) Vienna, Austria
2022 “Delivery experiment 1", in Exhibition "A shop is A Shop is A Shop" Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
2021 Performance "Go away! Go to your friends" in “Thicket of ideas, thicket of times”, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Vienna, Austria
2021 in “The project and its time” in Wiener Festwochen, Brut Nordwest, Vienna, Austria
2021 "Crystal Clear" publication donation in Exhibition MUME: “Ling’s Golden Imperial Shop”, Naschmarkt, Vienna, Austria
2021 “Home when you are,” Malmoe gallery page, Vienna, Austria
2021 Fotobiennale Graz, Austria
2021 in Exhibition “Inframisc” Heiligenkreuzerhof, Vienna, Austria
2021 "Crystal Clear", BRUX Freies Theater Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
2021 in Exhibition “Hair salon” at the Afro-Asiatische Institute, Graz, Austria
2020 Transarts Austellung der Abschlusssarbeiten, Web, Web
2019 Exhibition "Refreshing memory" vernissage performance, Prosvjeta, Preradovićeva 21, Zagreb, Croatia
2019 Fotogalerie Wien Propeller group exhibition, WUK, Vienna, Austria
2019 in Exhibition "For/against", University of Applied Arts Vienna, Vienna, Austria
2018 "Camo Cut" in Exhibition "And|or—but, yeah*" Kunstraum Lakeside, Klagenfurt, Austria
2018 "Camo Cut" in Exhibition "And|or—but, yeah*" University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria
2018 Performance “Would you marry me?” in festival "Oskar nimmt Platz" Oscar Kokoschka Platz, Vienna, Austria
2018 " OG Appropriation Vetemann" in Exhibition Wandzeitung, Vienna, Austria
2016 "Treetreffen" in Exhibition “If you don’t pay attention to me, I don’t pay attention to you”, Agora, Berlin, Germany
2016 in "Fumetto internationals comix–festival Luzern competition exhibition", Switzerland
2015 in Exhibition "향유" , L’espace Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2014 Installation “Synesthetic room”, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, USA
2014 Performance "Asian Tourist" an outcome of the course “Tableau and performativity”, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, USA
Residencies and Fundings
2022 Cathrin Pichler Preis, funded by the city of Vienna and awarded by the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
2021 Impulstanz DanceWEB scholarship, co-funded by Arts Council Korea
2020 BRUX Freies Theater Innsbruck VORBRENNER program, funded by Land Tirol, Innsbruck, Austria
2020 CCN-Stipendium der Kulturvermittlung Steiermark, Graz, Austria
2016 AFFECT Residency, Agora collective, Berlin, Germany
2016 Glasslåven Arts Centre Residency, Gran, Norway
2015 Addlip+ studio Artist Residency, Seoul, South Korea
Curatorial
2022 Group Exhibition “Porous Projections”
co-curatorial with Huda Takriti, Afro-Asiatische Institute, Graz, Austria
2020 A.I.R Program “Arkabarka Artist Residency”
hosted 8 international artists for 1 month, Belgrade, Serbia
2018 Group Exhibition “For/against” University of Applied Arts Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Teaching Experience
2022 “Analysis of exhibitions, projects and institutions”
co-teaching with Dr. Andreas Spiegl, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
2020 “Tomorrow Girls Troop Lecture”, on behalf of Tomorrow Girls Troop
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, in the class of Dr. Felicitas Thun-Hohenstein
2019 “Traveling Visual Culture and Global Solidarity”
Tokyo University, in the class of Professor Yoshiko Shimada
Academic Publication
2022 “Not working is working: Performativity of Active Deferral in Necropolitics and Compartmentalization of Time” in Re-Activating Critical Thinking in the Midst of Necropolitical Realities: For Radical Change, Cambridge Scholars publishing.