View video documentation of the March 26, 2022 Shared Dialogue, Shared Space: Virtual Artist Talk.
For this event, Korea Art Forum was in partnership with Franklin Furnace on Saturday, March 26, 2022 from 7PM – 8PM to kick off the 2022 Shared Dialogue, Shared Space spring program. Shared Dialogue, Shared Space (SDSS) is a series of one-day interactive art initiatives presented for free in NYC Parks connecting immigrant communities and underserved ethnic enclaves to visual arts and culture through language access and participatory art activities. We met artists participating in the spring 2022 SDSS program, previewed their works, and learned about the varied processes behind creating public art works.
March 26, 2022
7 - 8 PM EST
Since 2020, Shared Dialogue, Shared Space has broadened channels of communication between the contemporary art world and immigrant communities in New York City. Focused on the expansion of public access to art, the project fosters audience discourse, exploring a wide range of subject matters and the multidimensional role of art in the processes of cultural production and social change. SDSS activities are offered to populations with limited English proficiency (LEP) free of charge with translation services in English, Chinese, Korean, and Spanish at local parks embedded in the community.
For this event, we were joined by artists Alicia Grullón, Ana Paula Cordeiro, Arantxa Araujo, Cody Herrmann, David Yonghwan Lee, Eunhae Park, Gina Goico, Jeanne F. Jalandoni, Lily & Honglei, LuLu LoLo, Priscilla Marrero, Rosamond S. King, and Stephanie Alvarado; and by curators Jennifer McGregor, Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo and Heng-Gil Han.
About the Artists
Alicia Grullón
Alicia Grullón received a BFA from New York University and an MFA from the State University of New York at New Paltz. Grullón has exhibited and presented work at The 8th Floor, Columbia University, Franklin Furnace Archives, the Bronx Museum of the Arts, BRIC House, School of Visual Arts, El Museo del Barrio, Creative Time 2015 Summit, Royal College of Art, Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning, Performa 11, US Association of Art Educators, Whitney Biennial with Occupy Museums, Artists Space, Old Stone House and Art in Odd Places. She has received grants from the Puffin Foundation, Bronx Council on the Arts, the Department of Cultural Affairs of the City of New York, and Franklin Furnace Archives. Grullón’s legislative social practice project PERCENT FOR GREEN, a functioning green bill created as art with Bronx residents contributed to her acting as one of the co-lead organizers in the Bronx for the People’s Climate March. Her work has been reviewed in Hyperallergic, Creative Time Reports, Art Fag City, New York Times, Boulin Art Blog, ArtNews and the Brooklyn Press. She is a contributing author for the publication from Palgrave Macmillian “Rhetoric, Social Value and the Arts: But How Does it Work?” and co-author to the City Limits Op “The Intrinsic Value of Neighborhoods Undergoing Gentrification” with Executive Director of Mothers on the Move Wanda Salaman.
Ana Paula Cordeiro
Originally from Brazil and currently a fellow at the Hispanic Society of Americas, Ana Paula Cordeiro is based in New York and is a key holder for The Center for Book Arts communal shop. Her recent curatorial projects include the multi-media installation Introspective Collective. In 2020 she was awarded a grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and an Honorable Mention at the International Human Rights Arts Festival Creators of Justice Award for her essay “Citizen.” She co-authored Bookforms, and she has an extensive exhibition history. Her artist books are collected by major national and international institutions.
Arantxa Araujo
Cody Herrmann
Cody Herrmann is NYC based artist and community organizer. Guided by her interest in public space, participatory design methods, and urban resilience Cody’s work explores urban planning processes while applying an iterative, human centered approach to ecological problem solving. Since 2014, her work has focused on her hometown of Flushing, Queens, creating projects critiquing policy related to land use and environmental planning in areas surrounding Flushing Bay and Flushing Creek. Cody has been a recipient of the Culture Push Climate Justice Fellowship, Human Impacts Institute Impact Artist Fellowship, More Art Engaging Artists Fellowship, Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning Artist in Residency Fellowship, and Works on Water Residency. codyannherrmann.com
David Yonghwan Lee
David Yonghwan Lee is an American artist born to his Korean parents whose body of work currently focuses on a figurative painting that represents personal experiences of relocation for a living. Lee earned a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Art from the University of the Arts in London in 2018, and currently is pursuing his artistic career in New York City. He was invited to exhibitions, including Clyde & Co Art Award, organized by Clyde & Co, a law firm in London, for supporting emerging artists and their artistic career legal decision; Urbanites presented at Generator, a contemporary art space in Sofia to celebrate the rise of new creative generations in Bulgaria; and We are Shinjayeonist! held at Moonlight Art Warehouse in Damyang, South Korea, to celebrate the 26th anniversary of Shinjayeon movements (a Korean art movement based on awareness of nature within a self). Recently, he presented How’s Your Day, a solo exhibition at St. James Park, as the recipient of the City Artist Corps Grant, and participated in the Memorial Exhibition in Honor of the Late Michael Yun, a group exhibition presented at New Jersey City Hall to commemorate those who lost their lives by Covid-19.
Eunhae Park
Eunhae Mary Park is a visual development artist and illustrator with a BFA in Animation and Storyboarding from Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD). She has participated as a concept artist and an animator in multiple collaborative films. Eunhae was born in Kyoto, Japan, and was raised by Korean immigrants in the Kansai region of Japan with prominently American education. Influenced by her background, being both connected and disconnected in multiculturalism remains a key theme in her works.
Gina Goico
Gina Goico is a multidisciplinary artist, educator, and necia. Through their work Goico navigates their identity and the spaces where they exist in the Dominican Republic and the United States. They have created a diverse body of work that ranges from embroidery to installations, ink drawings and performance. Goico also facilitates spaces for temporary communities and dialogues around healing. Goico holds an AAS in Fine Arts and Illustration from Altos de Chavon and a BFA from Parsons. They also hold a MA in Arts Politics from NYU and is a PhD candidate in Performing and Media Arts at Cornell.
Jeanne F. Jalandoni
Jeanne F. Jalandoni is a painter and textile artist based in Uptown Manhattan. Her work illustrates her personal Filipino American mythological narrative, and explores multicultural identity through researching personal and historic documentation of Filipinos. Jeanne has exhibited in various group and solo shows, both nationally and internationally. She was a Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Creative Engagement Grant recipient (2019), as well as a Real Art Awards recipient (2019). Jeanne received her BFA in Studio Art from New York University (2015). She was an artist-in-residence at 36 Chase Artist and Art Historians Residency (2018) and the Textile Arts Center (2021).
Lily & Honglei
Lily & Honglei is an Asian American artist collaborative whose practice engages painting, animation and emerging technology. Their work often reflects on cultural identity, immigrant lives and Eastern cultural heritages. Lily & Honglei’s art practice has received recognitions from Creative Capital Award, NYFA Artist Fellowship, People’s Choice Award at Museum of Art & Design in New York, Jerome Foundation, NYSCA Individual Artist Grant, Queens Art Fund, City Artist Corps Grant, to name a few. Their work has been exhibited at art museums around the globe, discussed by many art historians and published in Journal of Visual Culture, British Journal, among others.
LuLu LoLo
LuLu LoLo has been a visual/performance artist and a playwright/actor for over twenty-five years. LuLu’s recent performance funded by a City Artist Corps Grant, “Dante, Opera, and Shining Shoes: Rituals of My Italian Immigrant Grandpa’s Life” incorporated memoir, dance, opera, and poetry. LuLu has performed in six Art in Odd Places (AiOP) festivals in NYC in the guise of different personas calling attention to urgent topical issues. Her public actions in “Where Are the Women?” (2015) highlighted the lack of public monuments to women in NYC and was featured in the New York Times. LuLu was the Curator of (AiOP) 2019: INVISIBLE, featuring eighty-two artists celebrating the indomitable spirit of artists who are sixty years of age or older. LuLu was a 2013 Blade of Grass Fellow in social engagement, and a Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Writer in Residence (2008).
Priscilla Marrero
Priscilla Marrero is an experimental performing + teaching artista from sunny Seminole, Taino and Tequesta land, also known as Miami, Florida. She is a passionate storyteller and loves to discover new ways to collaborate with transdisciplinary artistas such as her ongoing collaborations with Ferran Martín, Liliam Dooley, Matthew Evan Taylor, Luis A. Lara Malvacías + Jeremy Nelson, as well as Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo. She has performed and presented her work through live performance, hybrid, or film mediums in Van Cortlandt Park (NY), BAAD! (NY), Musée Dapper (FR), The Empty Circle(NY), Miami Light Project (FL), Inkub8 (FL), The Interior Beauty Salon (online), Movement Research at Judson Memorial Church (NY) y más. Marrero has a BA in Performance and Choreography from Florida International University and is currently pursuing an MFA for Experimental Choreography from the University of California Riverside (22’) with her research practice on La Pelvis. Marrero is also a member of Heidi Miami Marshall Studio’s The Acting Collective.
Rosamond S. King
Performance artist, poet, and scholar Rosamond S. King’s performances have been curated into venues around the world, including the New York Metropolitan Museum, the VIVA! Festival of Performance Art, Gibney, Dixon Place, Bocas LitFest, and the African Performance Art Biennial. She has presented site-specific, processional performances at Encuentro Biennial (Montreal, Canada) and Yari Yari Ntoaso (Accra, Ghana), and site-specific, environmentally-informed art in Rajasthan, India and most recently at Little Island’s inaugural FREE NYC Festival. King is the author of poetry collections All the Rage and the Lambda Award-winning Rock | Salt | Stone. The goal of all of her work is to make people feel, wonder, and think, not necessarily in that order. She is a professor at Brooklyn College, part of the City University of New York. rosamondsking.black
Stephanie Alvarado
Stephanie Alvarado is an antidisciplinary artist, poet, and visual artist who brings together photography, performance, archiving, palo santo drawings, political education, and research as components of their practice. Stephanie was born and raised in the Bronx, NY, by way of Guayaquil, Ecuador. They have 17 years of experience as a cultural organizer working at the intersections of reproductive justice and queer liberation movements. Their work is rooted in spiritual healing, community building, participatory photo archiving, social justice, and local memory. They host intergenerational photo archiving teach-ins on public park land and community gardens to reclaim public space as cultural reparations for Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities.
About the Curators
Jennifer McGregor
Jennifer McGregor is a New York based curator and arts planner who develops strategies to engage non-traditional public spaces, diverse audiences, and innovative artists. Through McGregor Consulting she collaborates with a range of clients and collaborators to plan, curate, and implement projects and public art plans. From 1999 to 2020, she conceived place-based visual and performing arts programming at Wave Hill, a world-renowned public garden and cultural center in the Bronx. There she worked with over 1,000 artists to activate connections to the environment through adventurous exhibitions and performances that explore nature, culture and site. She established her expertise in the public realm as the first director of New York City’s Percent for Art Program from 1983-1990. She speaks and writes about art related to ecology, gardens, and public engagement. She received her BA in art from Brown University.
Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo
Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo treads an elusive path that manifests itself performatively through creative experiences that he unfolds within the quotidian. He has exhibited or performed at Madrid Abierto/ARCO, The IX Havana Biennial, PERFORMA 05/07, IDENSITAT, Prague Quadrennial, Pontevedra Biennial, Call/Walks, Queens Museum, MoMA, Printed Matter, P.S. 122, Hemispheric Institute of Performance Art and Politics, Princeton University, Anthology Film Archives, El Museo del Barrio, Center for Book Arts, Longwood Art Gallery/BCA, The Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, Franklin Furnace, and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Nicolás has received mentorship in art in everyday life from Linda Mary Montano, a historic figure in the performance art field. Residencies attended include P.S. 1/MoMA, Yaddo and MacDowell. Nicolás holds an MFA from Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, where he studied with Coco Fusco; and an MA from Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York. Born in Santiago de los Treinta Caballeros, Dominican Republic, in 2011 he was baptized as a Bronxite; a citizen of the Bronx. Since 2006, he has pursued trainings with key people in the healing, somatic movement, and writing fields. Nicolás is the founding director of The Interior Beauty Salon, an organism living at the intersection of creativity and healing.
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Heng-Gil Han
Heng-Gil Han, the project’s director, has extensive experience facilitating temporary public art projects and commissioning artists to create new work, including participatory art events. A former Visual Arts Director for Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning in Queens, NY, Han conceived of Jamaica Flux: Workspaces & Windows in 2002, presenting art in everyday spaces, including sidewalks, public plazas, and storefronts. He implemented the project in 2004, 2007, 2010, and 2016. Through Jamaica Flux, Han supported Olu Oguibe, Michael Rakowitz, Hank Willis Thomas, and other critical artists to create site-specific public artworks, initiating public discourse on the power of art for social changes. Building upon his experience, Han developed the proposed project to advance an eco-human-centric framework of art as social products of public engagement to further KAF’s mission of bridging diverse communities through arts programming that is inclusive, open, and equitable to all persons regardless of belief, gender, and race.
