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San Francisco Arts Commission Presents Leymusoom School
Leymusoom School: 2-day workshop exploring the cycle of life and ritual with Heesoo Kwon and Kazumi Chin
Saturday, February 4 & Saturday, February 11
1:00-4:00 p.m.
Participation in both workshops is requisite. Space is limited. Registration required.
Leymusoom School is a series of community workshops offered by Heesoo Kwon and Kazumi Chin. Kwon is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice is centered around Leymusoom, an autobiographical feminist religion she founded in 2017 as an ever-evolving framework to explore her family histories and communal feminist liberation. Chin is a poet and teacher of Asian American and Native American studies at UC Davis whose work examines the way colonial and capitalist structures govern the possibilities of our identities.
AND stay tuned because Heesoo and Kazumi will be bringing the full version of Leymusoom school for eight weeks this summer!
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Workshop 1: Mourning Worlds: Sense-Making in the Wake
Kwon and Chin will share poems of mourning by Mahmoud Darwish and Joy Harjo as a starting point to discuss how the colonial informs grief, how our grief continues to unfold against the violence of colonialism, and how we might yet navigate the world as artists, as writers, and as colonial subjects. Through discussion, they will share their own experiences with mourning, bear witness to the experiences of others, and connect these experiences to their practice.
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Workshop 2: Ritual for Metamorphosis
Participants will return to build upon the structures created in the first workshop. Kwon and Chin will lead participants through the creation and presentation of their own rituals of birth and death. The hope here is to allow the creation of ritual to be a transformative experience--to imagine through ritual what it might take to sustain our bodies, our histories, and our ancestries together. Central to this practice is the capacity to work together as 식구, as found family, as people who are dependent upon each other and who must work to feed one another.
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This workshop series is presented in partnership with Kearny Street Workshop | @kearnystreetworkshop, and organized in conjunction with the Sowing Worlds exhibition on view at the San Francisco Arts Commission Main Gallery through February 11, 2023. Sowing Worlds brings together five artists based in the Bay Area alongside five artists based in South Korea who are thinking expansively and critically about living with climate change.
Workshop Registration Eventbrite
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/leymusoom-school-a-two-day-workshop-exploring-ritual-and-the-cycle-of-lif e-tickets-499989230247
About the Sowing Worlds Exhibition
Sowing Worlds exhibition is on view until February 11, 2023. SFAC Main Gallery Hours: Wednesday to Saturday (12-5pm)
Sowing Worlds brings together five artists based in the Bay Area alongside five artists based in South Korea who are thinking expansively and critically about living with climate change. The title comes from a chapter in theorist Donna Haraway’s Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene draws from the work of authors Octavia Butler and Ursula LeGuin to think about becoming kin with other species in order to expand our ways of thinking in addressing climate change.