Conversation with Park Chankook and ConverSalon
CineCycle (129 Spadina Ave.)
May 8th, 2018.  7pm

For this occasion, Park Chan-Kook (Seoul, Korea) will be in conversation with Rebecca Garret and Alexandra Gelis from ConverSalon (Toronto, Canada). This conversation will be centred around the complexity and ramifications of the artists’ roleduring the process of working with diverse communities. We are hoping that we can share our own experiences, differences and similarities of the idea of community. Park Chankook is a community artist and paradise planner living in South Korea.

He has engaged with a number of collaborative projects that explore artistic intervention in urban environment such as Dongdaemun Rooftop Paradise (2013- ), Non Art But Art (2011-12), Urban Guerilla Art Project (2013), Collaborative Squat Project in Han’gang Nodeul Island (2013), Public Art Project in Kwangju (2014) and Milmeori Art School (2002-11).