Welcome to the Bunker Questionnaire, a series in which we ask Bunker Projects residents and exhibiting artists a few questions based on Marcel Proust’s famous Proust Questionnaire, a survey that purported to reveal a person’s true nature. We hope their answers and the accompanying photos allow you to get to know them and their work a little bit more.
Okyoung Noh is an interdisciplinary artist based in Tucson (AZ) and Seoul (South Korea), working across performance, video, and multimedia installation. Her practice explores how the tactile residues of women’s forced migration, loss, and survival travel across time and borders, and seep into other bodies.
Noh has exhibited, screened, and performed internationally at LA MAMA (New York, NY), Wave Pool Gallery (Cincinnati, OH), Ann Arbor Art Center (Ann Arbor, MI), the Athens Institute for Contemporary Art (Athens, GA), Seoul Art Space Geumcheon (Seoul, South Korea), Tribowl (Incheon, South Korea), Hangaram Museum (Seoul, South Korea), and Seoul Artist’s Platform_New & Young (Seoul, South Korea), among others. Noh currently teaches video and sculpture as an Assistant Professor of Practice at the University of Arizona.
Describe yourself in three words
“Here, There, Everywhere”
Who are your favorite artists/the ones who’ve influenced you most?
“Ana Mendieta, Hong Lee Hyunsook”
What is your idea of happiness?
“Acknowledging the privilege and responsibility I have as an artist and a citizen of the Global North, appreciating the institutional & mutual support I can rely on, the cat that found me and came to me, and literally everything, including this given table, on which I work with my laptop and sewing machine.”
Where do you go or what do you do when you need inspiration to recharge?
“I just wait, trying not to be in a rush. Trying my best not to overthink about it or do something “special” to refresh myself. Hoping my ideas and energy come back to me after a grand journey across the universe.”
What draws you to do artist residencies?
“I have visited Pittsburgh and its art spaces a couple of times over the years. I always wanted to come back here and be a part of its creative DIY spirit, which Bunker Projects embodies best.”
Photography by Anna Brewer
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