From June 20th to July 14th 2020, we drove across America and photographed performances of mourning rituals at various locations: Grand Teton Park, Yellowstone National Park, Zion National Park, and rural areas in Pennsylvania, Illinois, San Diego, New Mexico, Texas, Louisiana, Georgia, and South Carolina. During the performances, we create temporal shrines at various sites and bury urns into the earth. The urns are filled with materials used to create the shrines and soil from the land.
In this project, titled Moments of Intervention, mourning rituals seemed particularly poignant in lieu of the ongoing global pandemic and police brutality. Our mourning rituals, performed within various parts of the American landscape, are meditations on land, ownership, violence, trauma, diaspora, and race.
We explore what it means to perform reimagined Korean mourning rituals on American land as marginalized artists during this time.
In this project, titled Moments of Intervention, mourning rituals seemed particularly poignant in lieu of the ongoing global pandemic and police brutality. Our mourning rituals, performed within various parts of the American landscape, are meditations on land, ownership, violence, trauma, diaspora, and race.
We explore what it means to perform reimagined Korean mourning rituals on American land as marginalized artists during this time.
