Grace Euna Kim (KR/USA) is a transdisciplinary artist/choreographer, critical researcher, and pedagogue based in Berlin. Her practice investigates ideology, political embodiment, and affect, with a focus on the blind spots of invisible violence within community and political conflict.
How do individual and collective bodies desire and negotiate meaning, and what are the politics therein? Using careful ethical approaches, she explores the encounter's transformative potential through site-specific immersive performances and interventions in public space, visual arts spaces, performing arts stages, and experimental education- and research-oriented formats. Since 2019 she has developed her long-term choreopolitical research on symbolic violence “Acid Bodies”, which informs the various outputs of her work. Drawing on Post-Lacanian psychoanalytic and critical theory, she develops 360° body-emergent affective approaches – acid choreography – which mobilize aesthetics as a political mediation between the viewer and social reality, and illuminate psycho-political drives and dimensions of being and movement. Through this lens, the audience is invited to rethink community and resistance, and explore the subversive potential of wonder—embracing the unexpected, the subversive, and the sublime.
Euna holds an MA in Philosophy, Art and Critical Thought (Media and Communication) at the European Graduate School in Switzerland. She has taught theoretical praxis courses and workshops at institutions including Weißensee Kunsthochschule (MA Raumstrategien/Spatial Strategies), PYR FYR School of Performance Moscow, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, and Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, and was a lecturer/mentor at House of Europe, Goethe-Institut Ukraine. She has presented her performances, research, and visual artworks in contexts including Seoul Museum; Incheon Art Platform; Schauspiel Leipzig; Frankfurt Lab; Haus der Statistik (Berlin); ZK/U–Center for Art and Urbanistics (Berlin); SOMA Art Space (Berlin); Cité de l’image–Clervaux (Luxembourg); Galerie Madé (Paris); Museum of Nonconformist Art (St. Petersburg); Solyanka VPA (Moscow); Blueproject Foundation (Barcelona); WhiteBox (New York); ASCA University of Amsterdam; and Foam Magazine/Foam Fotografiemuseum (Amsterdam). She is a recipient of the AHL Foundation Visual Art Award and Foam Talent distinction, and has received research and production grants from Fonds Darstellende Künste, Gwärtler Stiftung, Nationales Performance Netz (NPN), Incheon Foundation for Arts & Culture, and Berliner Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa.
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