Live from the Studio with TanTan Hong

Join current artist-in-residence TanTan Hong live via Zoom to learn more about what she has been up to throughout her time at Griffin Art Projects!

“I see the studio residency at Griffin Art Projects as an opportunity to continue to explore and  navigate through Tan Tans’ Garden — a research-based practice deeply rooted in the creation and  dissection of a parafictional world. Tan Tans’ Garden is a metaphorical parallel universe birthed by  the effects that American imperialism had on the Korean Peninsula, the Korean culture, and the  Korean diaspora. In this series of works, I discuss the creation of this world along with the studies  of its landscape and it’s historical ecology from the perspective of a young millennial artist as well as  a kin to generations of colonial trauma.”  - TanTan Hong

TanTan is a multimedia installation artist, bookmaker, and educator from South Korea. Her practice has been based in Seoul, Hong Kong, LA, and now, in Vancouver. Her practice and research concern microorganisms, memories, and world building; her worlds connect the in-between spaces of fictional and historical landscapes birthed by American imperialism. TanTan holds a BFA from CalArts and an MFA from ECUAD.