KUM SONI

クムソニ | KUM SONI

Affiliation and department：
Job title： Associate Professor
Homepage URL (1)： http://www.sonikum.com

Research field (1)： Aesthetic practices

Research keywords (7)： Curatorial Practice , Postcolonial Theory , Socially Engaged Art , Film and New Media , 政治哲学 , Contemporary Art , Art Practice

Research theme for competitive and other funds (7)：

2022 - 2026 「戦後」を再考する現代美術と東アジアをめぐる実践的研究
2022 - 2023 A collaborative project, Exhibition in New York State, US
2019 - 2020 Morning Dew - A joint project between the artist and ex-“returnees” who defected from North Korea to Japan
2016 - 2017 The possibility of approaching the soul in performance art (London, UK) <Pola Art Foundation Overseas Study Program for Young Artists>
2014 - 2014 The Ritual and the death in Contemporary Arts, Gertrude Contemporary

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MISC (2)：

Spiritual Activism and Art: “Art Pilgrimage”. 2011
Doctoral Thesis: "Animal Paths: Where Animals and Plants Flourish in the Chasm of Division". 2011

Books (6)：

우리 마음의 국경 (私たちの心の国境)
도서출판 지금 (図書出版チグム) 韓国言論学会平和コミュニケーション研究会(韓国語) 2024
この国(近代日本)の芸術--〈日本美術史〉を脱帝国主義化する(インタビュー)
月曜社 2023 ISBN:4865031758
Morning dew : a collaborative project between the artist and “ex-returnees" who defected from North Korea to Japan
ARTDIVER 2023 ISBN:4908122199
「Still Hear the Wound II (DVD収録映像作品)」Still hear the wound : toward an Asia, politics, and art to come, 李静和編著
East Asia Program, Cornell University 2015 ISBN:9781939161611
"Flower of the Potato" From the book “Representation of Woman in Asia; Colonialism, War, Woman, Representation” Edited by Megumi Kitahara
Seikyusha Publisher, Tokyo, Japan 2013

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Lectures and oral presentations (18)：

Subterranean Histories: Screen / Art / Performance, University of Minnesota
(2024)
"Between History and Recollection: Asia-Pacific War Memory in Contemporary Japanese Art"
(CAA (College Art Association of America) 112th Annual Conference, 2024 2024)
HANES VISITING ARTIST LECTURE SERIES: SONI KUM
(Artist talk and screening of “Morning Dew” 6:00-7:30 pm, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (アメリカ) 2023)
Archive Effects in East Asia: Thinking across Theory and Practice with Artists and Researchers
(AAS-in-Asia (The Association for Asian Studies) 2023)
SPECIAL SCREENING AND ARTIST TALK: SONI KUM’S MORNING DEW
(Department of East Asian Studies, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, NYU Asian Film and Media Initiative in the Department of Cinema Studies, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU 2023)

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Works (63)：

MORNING DEW: THE STIGMA OF BEING "BRAINWASHED"
Nobuaki Takekawa, Hiroki Yamamoto + Kazuya Takagawa 2023 - 2023
Morning Dew (AAS-IN-ASIA Special Exhibitions 1&2)
Directors Kim Dong-ryung, Park Kyoung-tae, Soni Kum, Organized by Han, Sang KIM, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Sociology, Ajou University, Shota Ogawa Ph.D, Graduate, School of Letters, Nagoya University 2023 -
Colorblind (“KANTEN 観展: The Limits of History”)
2023 - 2023
DMZ-POV Special Exhibition of Soni KUM: Embodied Art of a Zainichi Korean, Questioning the Borders Beyond Japan
2022 - 2022
On Art Project “Morning Dew”: Memories, Dreams, Voices of the North Korean “Ex-Returnees” in Japan
Hiroki Yamamoto, Kazuya Takagawa, Shota Ogawa and Ma Ran 2022 -

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Education (2)：

2006 - 2011 Tokyo University of the Arts Graduate School, Division of Fine Arts Inter Media Art
2002 - 2005 California Institute of the Arts Film and Video Film and Video

Work history (9)：

2003/08 - 現在 Artist
2021/04 - 2024/03 Meiji University School of Global Japanese Studies Senior Assistant Professor
2016/04 - 2017/03 Kingston University Department of Art and Architecture Part-time researcher for university or other academic organization
2012/03 - 2015/08 Yonsei University Undergraduate joint majors
2012/03 - 2015/06 Kyunghee University Humanitus College

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Awards (1)：

Association Membership(s) (2)：

CAA (College Art Association of America) , アジア・政治・アート研究会

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