residency: April–July 2022
Donghwan Kam (South Korea)
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Donghwan Kam
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(b. 1985) examines togetherness through visual and experiential media which often reside in relation to time. For the past two years he has been working on projects whose main focus is on maintenance and caretaking practices. In 2019 he built a communal kitchen at the Rijksakademie, Amsterdam, under the site-specific conditions of artist in residency he cooked and shared food with fellow artists and personally took care of the space taking up the role of the host and janitor. Through this work he discovered the methodology of Inhabiting, Maintenance, and Caretaking as an artistic practice.
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- The usual structure of the artist-in-residence program is that artists arrive, stay, relate, and leave. In this process, the traces of the artists or their relationships are often left in the space of residency in their own way and are eventually delivered to the newly arrived artists. But these transfers usually occur as pre-existing conditions and pass unnoticed and unrecognized.
- Doghwhan Kam will bring to Warsaw a fig tree which he grew from a branch received from US artist Iam Page and which he was cultivating for a year in Amsterdam. Amy Pekal, a former Dutch resident artist of U–jazdowski, initiated during her residency in 2021 a compost project – together with fellow residents she constructed an outdoor compost box and introduced residents and institution staff to composting practices.
- During his residency at U–jazdowski, Dongwhan will create an ‘ecological relationship’ by linking Ian’s fig tree with Amy’s compost. A series of work (or mission) to maintain this relationship will be performed through the residency period as a form of caretaking.
- Curator
- Marianna Dobkowska
Photos: Yuliia Frolova
Partner of the residency: Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
