CONSUMPTION
CONSUMPTION: A project on Pearl Street conceived by Rick Lowe is led by artists Aletheia Hyun-Jin Shin, Emily Chow Bluck, and Jeff Harley through their collaboration with men in recovery from homelessness and addiction (the Overcomers) of Sunday Breakfast Rescue Mission. CONSUMPTION’s work is housed in a storefront space along the 1200 block of Pearl Street, inside of Asian Arts Initiative’s multi-tenant arts facility in Philadelphia’s Chinatown North neighborhood. The work completed through the project activates the space and communities surrounding the Pearl Street alley using the storefront as a central hub for social and economic exchange.
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Creative Kye Initiative
Drawing from the concept of “ kye”, which was a communal finance sharing methodology in Korea culture, Korean immigrant communities in North America often initiate private Korean-American micro-banking systems within which they can pool money to start their small businesses. Inspired from this practice, the Creative Kye Initiative is a social capital exchange hub made up of a collective of Korean and Asian and Asian Pacific Islander artists, designers, activist, community organizers, lawyers, historians and business owners of based in Baltimore, Maryland. The collaborators of this initiative proactively work together to preserve the historical, cultural, economical presence of the Korean community and also to build consciousness in solidarity within the economic fabric of the local community. The Creative Kye Initiative project aims to create a kye of creative and social capital that critically intersects art, economic justice and racial solidarity in Baltimore city.
RESEARCH ARCHIVE
ONNGI PROJECT
The Onngi Project is a series of traditional Korean vessels created in collaboration with a Korean senior community in Baltimore. As Onngi is a significant vessel form Koreans used for over 5000 years to store everyday foods. The Onngi in this project serves as a metaphor for the history and wisdom in the untold story of Korean community in Baltimore. Through the Onngi Project, Korean Seniors from the Greenmount Senior Center came together to create artworks that will educate and raise awareness of the longstanding, yet untold presences of the Korean community in Baltimore. Together we explore our past and present journey living as Koreans in America. Wrestling in the dual consciousness of being both a Korean and becoming part of the palate of the United States, we set on a journey, exploring our stories that will ground and connect us to the world that we live in.
