Dr. Kyong Park

Biography

Kyong Park is involved in a wide range of works on public culture, focusing on research, documentation, and representations of urban landscapes that delineate economic, political, and cultural borders in contemporary social geography. Working across visual arts, architecture, theory, and curatorial practices, Park integrates text, photography, video, installation, and new media into their work, emphasizing a practice rooted in research and activism in public spaces. Park has founded the StoreFront for Art and Architecture in New York, an internationally respected exhibition space that they directed from 1982 to 1998, and the International Center for Urban Ecology in Detroit, producing workshops and urban initiatives in collaboration with activists and community organizations from 1998 to 2001. Their notable projects include the narrative video 'Detroit Making' and '24260: Fugitive House' which documented a vacant house that traveled across ten cities in Europe. They have worked on various urban investigations across European cities, with notable projects like 'The Slide' and 'BAR/GDR/FRG'. Park has also served as co-curator for the artist initiative Shrinking Cities in Berlin and as the founding director of the Centrala Foundation for Future Cities in Rotterdam. They were involved in the 'Lost Highway Expedition' across ex-Yugoslavia and are currently working on the 'New Silk Roads' project, focusing on Asian cities and globalization. Park has been an artistic director and curator for the Anyang Public Art Project in Korea and has received the Loeb Fellowship from Harvard University in 1996/97.

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