CONTACT
soojinchang09@gmail.com
BIOGRAPHY
Soojin Chang (b. 1991, unceded territory of the Ramaytush Ohlone) is a Korean non-binary performance artist, filmmaker, and researcher who lives in Glasgow and works internationally. Using their body as technology to transmute in/visibility, Chang's ritual experiments convene intimacies with beings that inhabit ontological precategorisation. Their practice is largely led through self-filming and trance performances that queers temporal consciousness and enters communion with multispecies spectres.
PRESS
Corridor 8. “Jerwood/FVU Awards: Soojin Chang & Michael.”
CLOT. “SOOJIN CHANG, expanding on animacy through non-hierarchical encounters with technology.”
Ocula. “Soojin Chang’s Animal-Alien-Woman Makes Contact at Jerwood Space.”
Love Magazine. “Performance artist Soojin Chang subverts rituals to talk about ecological justice.”
GirlsClub Asia. “Q&A”
Contemporary Art Stavanger. "The Renegade: Soojin Chang at L/R Residency."
Interview Magazine. "Exclusive Video Premiere: 'Burning Bride," Shilpa Ray."
EXHIBITIONS
2022 “Sacrifice to the Seaworm”, Leeds Art Gallery. Jerwood/FVU Awards 2022 in partnership with Leeds Gallery, UK
2022 “BXBY”, The Centre for Audio Visual Experimentation (CAVE), Leeds. Jerwood/FVU Awards 2022 in partnership with Leeds Gallery, UK
2022 “JADE BABY BAMBOO SPINE” at the Bluecoat as part of the exhibition breathe, spirit and life 呼吸、靈魂與生命 curated by Katherine Ka Yi Liu. Liverpool, UK
2022 “BXBY”, Jerwood Space, London. Jerwood/FVU Awards 2022 in partnership with Leeds Gallery, UK
2022 “Heavenly Shower of Banknotes”, the ICA London for FUTURERITUAL, in collaboration with Georgie Rei-n Lo and convened by Joseph Morgan Schofield, UK
2022 “DOG EGGS”, commissioned for Creators_R at Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, SK
2021 “A heifer would be needed for the sacrifice”, Tramway, Glasgow for Take Me Somewhere 2021, UK
2020 “Death Ritual,” The Lock Up, New South Wales, curated by Grace Partridge, AU
2019 “Mawlid, Mother, Persimmons”, Addis Video Art Festival, Addis Ababa, ET
2019 “A Transference”, in collaboration with Georgie Rei-n Lo, Cafe Oto, London for CHINABOT, UK
2019 “Al-ḥarb al-ʼahliyyah as-sūriyyah,” Tse Tse Fly Middle East, London, UK
2019 “State of Possession,” the ICA London, supporting These New Puritans, UK
2019 “State of Possession,” //BUZZCUT// Double Thrills, CCA, Glasgow, UK
2018 “Hair Eggs,” MoMA PS1, USA
2019 “Thorns,” Grace Exhibition Space, New York, USA
2018 “Thorns,” Women in Film, Ace Hotel, Los Angeles, USA
2018 XXIII Olympic Winter Games, vocals in the U.S. Broadcast.
2017 “Love, Lust, and Interpretations,” KGB, New York, USA
2017 “Three Heads and Nine Tails,” Art Basel Miami, USA
2017 “Semelparous Nights,” The Anarchist Arts Festival at Judson Church, New York, USA
2017 “Home,” The Linda Montano Art/Life Institute, New York, USA
2015 “Psychic TV, Haribo, Shilpa Ray, Wetware,” Pioneer Works, New York, USA
2015 “Mare Nubium,” Microscope Gallery, New York, USA
TALKS & CONFERENCES
2022 Contemporary Art Talk at Goldsmiths, University of London
2022 Visiting Artist Talk at University of Leeds, School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies
2021 “Hybrid Bodies II : Embodied Subjectivities” in Reading Zoos in the Age of the Anthropocene WORKSHOP IV : Exhibition – Curation – Decolonization, Interdisciplinary Workshop Series, Utrecht University
2021 “Counter Canon Challenge: A student led and student centered approach to decolonising the reading list”, Goldsmiths Staff Conference , University of London.
2021 “Rest and Unrest in Your Creative Practice” as part of In Session, Transmission Gallery
2021 “Artist to Artist Conversation: Rejecting the Species Binary”, Present Futures Festival
2019 Artist Talk at //BUZZCUT// //Double Thrills//, CCA Glasgow
2019 Artist Talk at Sa Sa Art Projects, Phnom Penh