Bang Geul Han
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 Rummaging through everyday encounters, old and new memories, overheard and imagined conversations, I construct forms of narrative in which multiple cultural and social identities are intertwined with notions of multiplicity, fiction and nonfiction. I present intimate moments of banality, frustration and anxiety that seem quite personal yet refracted and translated through the larger cultural expectations and protocols of public space. I often use video performance and interactive technologies to trace and create the visceral, immediate experience as well as to reflect upon our increasingly mediated, disembodied interactions and experiences on virtual, digital platforms. My interactive artworks and videos 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. Despite the growing hegemony of a globalized, corporatized, mass-media aesthetic, the contemporary narrative forms emerging and being constructed from increasingly disembodied and virtual environments seem, at this point at least, to still possess subversive and creative possibilities of communication. My work is an endeavor to redraw and re-imagine forms, aesthetic sensibilities and narrative structures using our ‘new’ yet ubiquitous digital technologies through exploring the blurred lines between conflicting impulses of public and private, anxiety and desire.
