Essays
I am the type of person who needs names and distinction in characteristics to comprehend whatever is happening in my world. I often blame it on growing up as a middle child in an immigrant family: the constant and urgent need to discern and explain what is mine and not. I am Minjee. I am Korean. I am a woman. Where are you from? What is your pronoun? What do I call you?
READWhat Do I Call You?
Minjee Hwang Kim on labelling and categorization of people, the power of assimilation, and the denial of structural oppression stretching into the model minority myth for Asians in the West.
Dear Chris,
Consent is a narrow motorway and I’m walking on, half naked on the kerb, clutching my shoes, my books and her words like a schoolgirl at dawn, hoping I’ll be home.
READAbout My Mother: A Series of Open Letters to Chris Kraus — Part I
Carlota Mir on feminism as a contested space of power.
What started with a few questions regarding the nature of the open call soon grew into a heated debate and triggered an opportunity for the exposure of several arguments and points of view in the form of a much-needed conversation.
READI Can’t Believe What You Say, Because I See What You Do
Farbod Fakharzadeh on the lack of diversity in Frame Contemporary Art Finland’s recruitment and engagement policies.
Maybe I wanted to believe that deep inside, all humans are artists.
READA Midsummer Encounter
Tuomo Tuovinen on rare encounters with audiences from outside the professional art sphere.
Art universities didn’t teach you that art was a game with certain rules, they rather taught you how to worship the ones who’d figured it all out by themselves. But how about those of us who didn’t want to play by the rules, what was our alternative?
READDear museum of Bad Art (MoBA)
What’s more genuine than putting all your efforts into what you truly believe in, and failing?
Vacationing requires taking the risk of being bored. No planning. No aspirations. No goals. No distractions. In a world filled with products and services marketing distraction as ‘happiness’, and in a work environment where multitasking is the norm and nothing is ever enough, vacation should be the opposite.
READAchievement ≠ Happiness
Hanna Järvinen makes a case on why to divorce happiness from achievement, how to take a deliberate vacation and schedule time for being bored.
