Dawoon Park
Dawoon Park (1991*) is a Korean media artist and researcher currently based in Berlin. Her research interest focuses on exploring artistic formations that amalgamate the gap between matter - actuality - and meaning - fictionality - through experimental and reflective work on the material properties of media within a heterogeneous assemblage. As a testimony to the emancipatory potential of art to initiate the decolonization and deinstitutionalization of our consciousness of things, her practices aim at the manifestation of aesthetic experiences that embody subjective knowledge as well as provoke so-called pre-reflective knowledge. In this regard, she is currently conducting her doctoral project entitled "Wibbly-Wobbly Symbol, Touchy-Feely Space: Reenactment of Ineffable Events through the Queer Use of Iconic Form-Meaning of Korean Mimetic Words" as part of the binational artistic PhD program at the University of the Arts Bremen (HfK) in Germany.
She holds a Master of Arts (MA) in New Media of Visual Communication from the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK) in Germany and a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Communication Design from Dankook University in South Korea. Her work has been exhibited at various art events, including Vorspiel Transmediale/CTM Festival and 48 Stunden Neukölln. She has received project funding from Arts Council Korea (ARKO) and a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).
For the full portfolio, contact her via dawoonipark@gmail.com.
RESUME
Academic Qualification
2021-2022. Master of Arts (MA). New Media. Visual Communication. Berlin University of the Arts (UdK). DE.
2019-2021. MA Adaptation Study (MA Anpassungsstudium). New Media. Visual Communication. Berlin University of the Arts (UdK). DE.
2010-2014. Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA). Communication Design. Dankook University. KR.
Solo Show
2023. Summersnowglobalism. designtransfer. Berlin. DE – extended after “Present IM/POSSIBILITIES”
2015. Uninvited Girl. Drawing Blind. Seoul. KR
Group Show
2023. Interplay. Art Space Lab: groundless. 48 Hours Neukölln. Kulturnetzwerk Neukölln e.V.. SomoS Arts. Berlin. DE
2023. Present IM/POSSIBILITIES. Vorspiel Transmediale/CTM Festival. designtransfer. Berlin, DE
2022. OTHER-Control vs. SELF-Determination. designtransfer. Weizenbaum-Institut. Berlin. DE
2022. Temporal Spaces and Uncertain Memories. Kunstraum Potsdamer Straße. Berlin. DE
2022. Art Space Lab: groundless. 48 Hours Neukölln. Kulturnetzwerk Neukölln e.V.. SUB TEI Berlin. DE
2022. Time to Time. LAGE EGAL. Berlin. DE
2021. Solarsound. S4NTP October Performance Streaming. Medienhaus. Berlin. DE
2021. Solarsound. Another Matter. ACUD MACHT NEU. Berlin. DE
2021. Solarsound. Transferans. 48 Hours Neukölln. Berlin. DE
2021. INTERCONNECTED. Vorspiel Transmediale/CTM Festival. Berlin. DE
2020. Expanding Spaces. front yard C/O Berlin. DE
2020. COVID-19 Diaries. designtransfer. Berlin. DE
2020. INTERCONNECTED. designtransfer. Berlin. DE
2019. FALLING UPWARDS. Lagoon Parliament. 2OG ALTE MÜNZE. Berlin. DE
2016. Here I am. Seum Art Space. Seoul. KR
2015. Remember, Create, and Honor. Gallery Ddung. Seoul. KR
2015. Remember, Create, and Honor. Space Gabi. Newyork. US
2014. You've got a message. AramNuri Arts Center. Goyang. KR
Performance and Lecture
2023. Summersnowglobalism. Lecture Performance. Present IM/POSSIBILITIES. Graduate Lecture Series. Vorspiel Transmediale/CTM Festival. glass showcase designtransfer. Berlin, DE
2022. Summersnowglobalism. Keynote Presentation. 2022 Art & Tech. Art Council of Korea (ARKO). KOTE. KR
2022. Summersnowglobalism. Lecture Performance. 2022 Rundgang. Berlin University of the Arts. Medienhaus. DE
2021. Moonage Daydream. Friday Meetups. New Media Class. Berlin University of the Arts. Medienhaus. DE
Cooperation
2022. groundless. Artistic Collective based in Berlin – co-organized by Erik Reinhardt, Fang Tsai, Jens Tiemann, Orlando Helfer, Özcan Ertek, Vinzenz Aubry
2021. Tutor. New Media Class. Berlin University of the Arts. DE
Grant, Scholarship, and Award
2023. Art Space Lab Grants: groundless. 48 Hours Neukölln. Kulturnetzwerk Neukölln e.V.. DE
2022. Korea Culture and Arts Fund. Arts Council Korea(ARKO). KR
2022. Study Completion Grants for International Students(STIBET I). German Academic Exchange Service(DAAD). DE
2022. Art Space Lab Grants: groundless. 48 Hours Neukölln. Kulturnetzwerk Neukölln e.V.. DE
2022. New Media Selection Winner: Scenery Between-Windows 3. Ivy Film Festival. US
2020. Creation Stepping Stone Grants. Korean Artists Welfare Foundation. KR
Other Artistic Experience
2015-2018. Self-employed motion designer – See selected projects at 허클베리피 (Huckleberry P) - 달마시안 (Dalmatian), Nafla (나플라) - 좋은 아침이야 (good morning)
PORTFOLIO
rearranged version hosted at SomoS in Berlin from June 23-25. 2023 as part of the 2023 48 Hours Neukölln festival, with the theme "Play(ground)."
initially presented at UdK Berlin on September 30. 2022, as part of the 2022 MA examination.
lecture performed at designtransfer in Berlin on January 31. 2023 as part of Vorspiel 2023 during the transmediale and CTM festivals with the exhibition of New Media class - UdK Berlin “PRESENT IM/POSSIBILITIES”
