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Jane Jin Kaisen

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Website
  
www.janejinkaisen.com

Name
  
Jane Kaisen

Books
  
Shifter 12: Unassaigned


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Born
  
May 28, 1980 (age 43) (
1980-05-28
)
South Korea

Notable work
  
Loving Belinda The Woman, The Orphan, and The Tiger Reiterations of Dissent

Awards
  
Montana Enterprize 2011

Alma mater
  
Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, University of California, Los Angeles

Jane jin kaisen reiterations of dissent


Jane Jin Kaisen (born May 28, 1980) is a visual artist and filmmaker based in Copenhagen, Denmark.

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She was born in South Korea and adopted to Denmark in 1980. She received her MFA in Media Art from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and also another MFA in Interdisciplinary Studio Art from The University of California Los Angeles. She also participated in The Whitney Independent Study Program. Themes in her work include memory and history. She works within film, installation, writing, and performance.

Together with artist and filmmaker Guston Sondin-Kung, she made the narrative experimental film The Woman, The Orphan, and The Tiger in 2010.

In 2011 Jane Jin Kaisen began the multi-channel video installation Reiterations of Dissent, which has been exhibited widely and in multiple formats, among others at Aarhus Kunstbygning (DK), Kunsthallen Brandts (DK), Sonoma County Museum (USA), and The Jeju April 3 Peace Park (KR).

Jane Jin Kasien is the co-founder of Orientity along with Natsue Haji OH, kimura byol-nathalie lemoine, Adel KsK, Raymond Hahn, Naomi K. Long. The artist group Orientity has exhibited together in Kyoto Art Center (2004), in Hong Kong at Fringe Club (2005), in Montreal at Galerie La Centrale (2007), in Grenoble at la Maison Internationale (2008) and in Lille at Maison Folies (2009). She also co-founded the artist unit itinerant with Guston Sondin-Kung and together they have organized and curated a series of art exhibitions and events.

Jane Jin Kaisen has also curated exhibitions and events. She was a curator of the 10th Open International Performance Art Festival in 2009 in Beijing, China, which included performance artists from many different countries.

She has also been involved the 24-hour Project. The first show was in South East Asia, then a year later in Seoul (24hrs Monkey with Cho Mihee), and finally in Montreal (24h-Montreal with Adel KsK, kimura byol-nathalie lemoine, Jihee Min).

Her work Loving Belinda was in 2015 featured in the Danish newspaper Information.

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Awards

In 2011, she received the award Montana Enterprize at Kunsthallen Brandts.

In 2014, she was the recipient of the Mads Øvlisen PhD scholarship from the Novo Nordisk Foundation.

Selected exhibitions

  • 7th Liverpool Biennial in the UK
  • Videonale13 in Germany
  • 2nd Incheon Women Artists Biennale and 6th Gwangju Biennale in South Korea
  • 2nd Deformes Biennale at Galleia Metropolitana in Chile
  • Gana Art Gallery and Amelie A. Wallace Gallery in New York
  • Vox Populi, Philadelphia
  • 25th Asia Pacific American Film Festival Los Angeles
  • Museum for Contemporary Art Roskilde
  • Nikolaj Contemporary Art Center
  • The National Museum of Photography and Aarhus Art Building in Denmark
  • Malmö Konsthall in Sweden
  • Kyoto Arts Center
  • Kyoto Museum of Art
  • Fukouka Museum of Art
  • Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival in Japan
  • Beijing 798 Art Zone
  • Taiwan International Documentary Film Festival
  • The National Gallery in Indonesia
  • Publications

  • Linda Fagerström; Frederikke Hansen; Karin Hindsbo; Else-Brit Kroneberg; Charlotte Myrbråten (2013). The beginning is always today : contemporary feminist art in Scandinavia (in Norwegian and English). Kristiansand, Norway: SKMU Sørlandets Kunstmuseum. ISBN 9788299433280. 
  • Sreshta Rit Premnath; Kajsa Dahlberg; Jane Jin Kaisen (2008). Shifter 12: Unassaigned. Shifter Magazine. ISBN 9780990470496. 
  • Videonale 13
  • Lene Myong; Jane Jin Kaisen (2015). Loving Belinda (in Danish). Forlaget * [asterisk]. ISBN 978-87-92733-43-6. 
  • Crystal Mun-hye Baik (2015). Unfaithful Returns: Reiterations of Dissent, U.S.–Korean Militarized Debt, and the Architecture of Violent Freedom. Journal of Asian American Studies * [asterisk].  *[1]
  • References

    Jane Jin Kaisen Wikipedia