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Special Feature: Jane Jin Kaisen, Community of Parting


  • SNF Parkway Theatre 5 West North Avenue Baltimore, MD, 21201 United States (map)

CRAAV welcomes Jane Jin Kaisen as artist-in-residence at the Center for Advanced Media Studies (CAMS).

In collaboration with CAMS, CRAAV has organized:

Special Feature: Jane Jin Kaisen

Viewing of selected artworks including: Apertures/Specters/Rifts (2016), Strange Meetings (2017), and The Woman, The Orphan, and The Tiger (2010)

Community of Parting, 2019. Photo Sang-tae Kim. Courtesy: Art Sonje Center



Jane Jin Kaisen (born 1980 in Jeju Island, lives in Copenhagen) is a visual artist, filmmaker, and Professor at the School of Media Arts, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.

Photo by Daniel Zox

Spanning the mediums of video installation, narrative experimental film, photographic installation, performance, and text, Kaisen’s artistic practice is informed by extensive interdisciplinary research and engagement with diverse communities.

She is known for her visually striking, multilayered, performative, poetic, and multi-voiced feminist works through which past and present are brought into relation. Her works negotiate and mediate the means of representation, resistance, and reconciliation, thus forming alternative genealogies and sites of collective emergence.

Engaging topics such as memory, migration, borders, and translation, she activates the field where lived experience and embodied knowledge intersect with larger transnational political histories, among others the Korean War and division, the Jeju April Third Massacre, gender marginalization, and transnational adoption.

Kaisen has exhibited and screened her works in a range of contexts internationally. She represented Korea at the 58th Venice Biennale with the film installation Community of Parting which traces a different approach to borders and aesthetic mediation through the Korean shamanic myth of the Abandoned Princess Bari and has participated in the biennials of Liverpool, Gwangju, Anren, Jeju, among others. She was awarded “Exhibition of the Year 2020” by AICA - International Association of Art Critics, Denmark for the exhibition Community of Parting at Kunsthal Charlottenborg and awarded the Montana ENTERPRIZE at Kunsthallen Brandts in Denmark in 2011. Recent solo exhibitions include Parallax Conjunctures at Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (2021), Community of Parting at Art Sonje Center (2021) and Kunsthal Charlottenborg (2020), and Of Specters or Returns, Gallery damdam (2020).

SCHEDULE OF VIEWINGS AT THE SNF PARKWAY

March 4 - April 10 (Thursdays-Sundays)

APERTURES | SPECTERS | RIFTS, 2016 and STRANGE MEETINGS, 2017, installed artworks in the SNF Parkway building. Open during Parkway operating hours.

April 7 at 7PM

COMMUNITY OF PARTING 2019 will be screened as a single-channel film (Theatre 1). The screening will be followed by an artist Q&A and discussion.

April 8, 9, 10

Experience the installed artworks and the screening of two films as part of the Asia North Arts Festival 2022. Featuring single-channel film screenings of The Woman, The Orphan, and The Tiger, 2010 (Theater 3) and Community of Parting, 2019 (Theater 2).


Theatre 2 - Community of Parting
Friday, April 8: 4 pm, 7 pm
Saturday, April 9: 4 pm, 7 pm
Sunday, April 10: 1 pm, 4 pm

Theatre 3 -The Woman, The Orphan, and The Tiger
Friday, April 8: 4:15 pm, 7:15 pm
Saturday, April 9: 4:15 pm, 7:15 pm
Sunday, April 10: 1:15 pm, 4:15 pm


For seat reservations, please go to: mdfilmfest.com

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