Artist (*1977 Seoul, lives in Berlin and Seoul)

"The migration of women. Displacement in Japan and Korea. In this project I took part in a survey on the lives of discriminated women (forced prostitutes, Huyoukei) based on reconstructed history and memories. It shows the small unremarkable experiences of the protagonists in their resistance against daily routines. It is all about loss and the search for their identities." (Chansook Choi)

The public discourse programme is a key element of the ARTS CLUB BERLIN, committed to investigating recent developments, concepts and forms of practice in discourses of contemporary art. At the invitation of the VBK curators, artists and scientists are asked to organize a discursive programme that is internationally oriented yet at the same time retains a focus on the local context of Berlin. This interdisciplinary encounter hopes to engender an open, non-hierarchical space within which artistic and scientific notions of expertise are given equal attention. Consequently, a discursive programme that aims to map new cultural terrain supports the inquiry into contemporary contexts of artistic practice.