Academic Writing
“Shaman, Cyborg, Utopia: Reconstructing Lee Bul’s Shamanic Cosmology.”
GA Journal, vol. 7, 2026. (Japanese, forthcoming)
“The Naked Other and the Dead: Death as an Expression of Vulnerability in Toshi Maruki’s Nude Representations.”
The Annual Review of Cultural Studies, no. 13, 2025, pp. 177–195. (Japanese)
Recent Criticism & Essays
“Dear Unni”
Curatorial essay for Night Bodies, solo exhibition by Mihyun Kim,
November 14–February 21, 2026.
“The Art of Bal 發: Fermentative Practice and the Redistribution of Power”
Critic for Rice Brewing Sisters Club, 『Totatoga Critic』 vol.1, 2025.
“The Blue Trash Can Theory”
In The Center Lies on the Outside: Rirkrit Tiravanija and the Art of Noji,
edited by Ahreum Woo, Croma Editions, 2025.
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⬇︎NOW⬇︎
– PhD student at Tokyo University of the Arts
– Developing a research-based curatorial project
– Selected writing forthcoming
– Engaged in KR–JP translation and interpretation
for institutional exhibitions and museum collaborations
Featured Work
Ghost Curatorial Platform:
the ghost project
Oct 2024 ~ Publicly accessible at all times
Launched in 2024, dedicated to exploring the invisible, the silenced, and the spectral conditions of contemporary life.
related WRITING
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This essay serves as a postscript to the founding of the ghost project, reflecting on the failures, unrecorded moments, and invisible presences that shaped its 2024 activities. Based on the conceptual and practical foundations of the 2024 projects 100 monogatari and 100 kiyakou, it explores care, collective authorship, power dynamics, and the possibilities of anarchism within artistic production. Above all, it attempts to give voice to the “ghostly processes” that lie behind every creative outcome, raising questions about the forgotten, the voiceless, and the ungrieved whom the project sought to embrace. Related project : https://theghostproject.com/about/ Contents The essay has been published on the website…
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