ICA kyoto TALK 056

Before the Moment: Roots of a Curatorial Practice

Speaker： Eungie Joo (Curator / San Francisco, US)
Moderator： Takuya Tsutsumi (Program Director, ICA Kyoto)
Interpreter： Miho Tsujii

From San Francisco we welcome Eungie Joo, who will speak about her early years as a curator, and the particular interests and approaches she has cultivated during her career. The talk will have no set theme; expect instead a free and frank, wide-ranging discussion covering everything from what made Joo want to be a curator, to projects from her student and immediate post-graduation years, differences between independent activities and curatorial praxis within institutional frameworks, and her experiences with the numerous art festivals she has been involved with. The second half of the talk will take an open interview format incorporating questions from the audience.

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Event Details

Date： May 15 (Thu.), 2025, 19:00-20:30
Venue： Aoi Park, North side of the Kamogawa River Delta (Shimogamo-Miyakawacho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto)
Capacity： Approx. 30 persons / first-come, first-served (no advance registration required)
Admission： Free
Organaized by： ICA Kyoto, Kyoto University of Arts Graduate School
Cooperation： Higashiyama Artists Placement Service (HAPS)
Support： Kyoto City

Note: In case of rain, the event will be postponed to Friday, May 16.Information regarding whether the event will be held as planned or postponed will be announced by 2:00 p.m. on the day via ICA Kyoto’s Facebook and Instagram accounts.
Please note that if it rains on the postponed date (May 16) as well, the event will be held at the alternative venue: U21 Classroom, 2nd Floor, Uryukan, Kyoto University of the Arts.

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Eungie Joo

Eungie Joo was inaugural Curator and Head of Contemporary Art at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Curator of Sharjah Biennial 12: The past, the present, the possible; Director and Curator of Education and Public Programs at the New Museum; Commissioner of the Korean Pavilion at the 53rd Venice Biennale, Condensation: Haegue Yang; inaugural Director and Curator of the Gallery at REDCAT; and co-founder of the participatory space Six Months: Crenshaw. Her curatorial practice relies on sustained relationships with artists through the production of new work, activating discursive and performative platforms, and exhibition making. Joo earned her PhD in Ethnic Studies from the University of California at Berkeley.

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About ICA Kyoto TALK

ICA Kyoto was set up in 2020 as an adjunct to the Kyoto University of the Arts Graduate School, and since then has offered an ongoing program of talks with guest artists, curators, researchers, and gallerists working in Japan and elsewhere. ICA Kyoto TALK is part of this program, and has now merged with the previous Global Art Talk initiative in a platform designed to connect Kyoto with diverse art scenes worldwide, and encourage dialogue. The aim of ICA Kyoto TALK is to open up new perspectives by moving between local, on-the-ground activities and global trends to deliver authentic experiences of our multilayered world.

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Contact

info@icakyoto.art

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