Paul HaeAhn + Kajander Kwon + Walter Scott
Artists in residency
- Autorésidence
This residency is part of the 2023-2024 call for proposals, and is carried out remotely, as an autoresidency.
HaeAhn Paul Kwon Kajander & Walter Scott will produce a mixed-media installation; a collaborative exhibition that explores their affinities for makeshift and provisional sculpture, queer ecologies, psychoanalytic reflections on the instability of language, the use of humour as resistance and the complex formation of subjectivity in this heavily mediatized period of late capitalism.
HaeAhn Paul Kwon Kajander & Walter Scott are three visual artists who established a shared studio space in Tkaronto/Toronto from late 2019 until each moving to different cities in 2022. Throughout the heightened period of pandemic, They were making independent works alongside one another, and came to recognize the informal influence that resulted from being in proximity, sharing the vulnerability, trust and exigencies of processing shame and anxiety in the face of accelerated doom.
Of particular interest are the writings of Dr. Kim TallBear (especially in Cryopolitics; “Beyond the Life/Not Life Binary: A Feminist-Indigenous Reading of Cryopreservation, Interspecies Thinking and the New Materialisms.”) and in Jacqueline Rose’s continued work to resuscitate psychoanalysis through a post-feminist, Lacanian lens.
The resulting multi-media exhibition at the AXENEO7 space will be the culmination of a period of collaborative making and research, and the result of a more general, years-long collaboration of spirit.
HaeAhn Paul Kwon Kajander is a Korean/Canadian collaborative duo currently based in Kjipuktuk/Halifax where they teach at NSCAD University. Through the threading together of given and family names, their practice complicates the notion of individual authorship and addresses the constructedness of identity. Current research interests include material exploration with natural lacquer; the modernization of urban sewerage/waste-treatment infrastructure and the connections between imperialism, nationalism, colonialism and private property. The presentation of their work has been supported via numerous exhibition contexts, including Kunstverein Toronto (Toronto), The Real DMZ Project (Paju), Galerie SAW (Ottawa), Franz Kaka (Toronto), Galerie Nicolas Robert (Toronto), Trilobite et le Pneu (Montréal), Jack Barrett Gallery (New York), The Small Arms Inspection Building (Mississauga), Julius Caesar (Chicago), Nerri Baranco (Mexico City). Their work is represented by Franz Kaka. HaeAhn Paul Kwon Kajander gratefully acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.
Walter Scott b. 1985, is an interdisciplinary artist working across comics, drawing, video, performance and sculpture. His comic series, Wendy, chronicles the continuing misadventures of a young artist in a satirical version of the contemporary art world. Wendy has been featured in Canadian Art, Art in America, and published online on the New Yorker. Recent exhibitions include Reframed Into Oblivion, Naughton Gallery (Belfast), and Open Ended, Painted Shut at the MACM, Montreal. His most recent graphic novel, The Wendy Award will be available in July, from Drawn & Quarterly.
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