EventsThe New Social Environment#671
Blood and Tears: Portrayals of Gwangju's Democratic Struggle
Featuring Soojung Hyun and Robert C. Morgan
Tuesday, October 18, 2022 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific
These free events are produced by The Brooklyn Rail.
Curator Soojung Hyun joins Rail contributor Robert C. Morgan for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading by Julie Agoos.
Soojung Hyun

Curator Soojung Hyun received her Ph.D. in Art History from Chosun University in Korea in February 2010. Since then, she expanded her interests to embrace the intersections between Eastern and Western cultures, pursuing a dialogue between contemporary and classical traditions emanating from both cultures. She has taught at Manhattanville College, Parsons, and Montclair State University and has lectured at CUNY Graduate Center. Hyun was selected as a curator for the Gwangju Biennale (2006) and was invited as a juror for the Tehran Contemporary Sculpture Biennale (2007). She has also curated multiple shows in New York.
Robert C. Morgan

Writer, artist, critic, art historian, curator, and educator Robert C. Morgan PhD is knowledgeable in the history and aesthetics of both Western and Asian art, Morgan has lectured widely, written hundreds of critical essays (translated into twenty languages), published monographs and books, and curated numerous exhibitions. His writing has been published in Art in America, Arts, Art News, Art Press (Paris), Sculpture Magazine, and Hyperallergic. He is Professor Emeritus in Art History at the Rochester Institute of Technology and author of several books, published in the United States and in Europe and Asia. He writes about art for the Brooklyn Rail and is regarded by some as a hard-edge painter.
The Rail has a tradition of ending our conversations with a poetry reading, and we're fortunate to have Dao Strom reading.
Dao Strom

Artist Dao Strom works with three “voices”—written, sung, visual—to explore hybridity and the intersection of personal and collective histories. She is the author of Instrument (Fonograf Editions, 2020) and its musical companion Traveler’s Ode (Antiquated Future Records, 2020); a bilingual poetry-art book, You Will Always Be Someone From Somewhere Else (AJAR Press); a memoir, We Were Meant To Be a Gentle People, and song cycle, East/West; and two books of fiction, The Gentle Order of Girls and Boys and Grass Roof, Tin Roof. Born in Vietnam, Strom grew up in the Sierra Nevada foothills of California and lives in Portland, Oregon. She is co-founder of two collective art projects, She Who Has No Master(s), and De-Canon.
We’d like to thank The Marion Boulton Kippy Stroud Foundation and Teiger Foundation for making these conversations possible, and for their support of our growing archive 🌈✨