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About Bang Geul (한방글이는...)
Bio
Bang Geul Han was born and raised in Seoul, Korea. Han earned an MFA from the New York State College of Ceramics, Alfred University in Alfred, NY and BFA from the Seoul National University in Seoul, Korea. Based in US since 2003, she participated in the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture,the MacDowell Colony and the 2010 Triangle Artist's Workshop. She is currently an artist in residence for the LMCC Workspace program. She is Assistant Professor for the Digital Arts and Sciences Program at Clarkson University. She lives and works between Potsdam and New York, NY.
Artist's statement
Since moving to the US in 2003 from Seoul, Korea, my work has slowly shifted its concerns from personal storytelling to the mechanisms and agencies within storytelling and its relationship with language, culture and its manifestations. This is partly due to my own experience of living in a foreign country but also due to the coinciding explosion of new media and communication platforms such as blogs, social media and reality television shows. I explore how we, and especially myself, engage with this new forms and how the contemporary narratives are constructed from these disembodied environments where conflicting impulses of public and private, anxiety and desire are blurred. I present intimate moments that seem quite personal yet refracted and translated through the larger cultural expectations and protocols of public space. I often use video performance to trace the raw, immediate experience as well as to reflect upon our increasingly posed, mediated, and disembodied relationship with our own image and body. My videos and interactive installations function both as a performance, mapping out subjective spaces permeated with anxieties and desires, and as an interface, shimmering between public declaration and internal dialogue.