BA German Language and Literature, Seoul National University, Completed with Honours, 4 year Scholarship
BA Theatre and Dance, University of Hawai’i at Manoa, Exchange, (GPA: 4.0/4.0)
BA Dance and Choreography, Falmouth University (Former Dartington College), Erasmus Exchange Scholarship recipient
MA Choreography and Performance, University of Music and Performing Arts Frankfurt and Institute of Applied Theatre Studies
Giessen

1. Work Presented
2013
• [Sorry that I always forget to press delete]; Dance; Mousonturm (Frankfurt), Uferstudios (Berlin) & Perla Mode (Zurich)
• This is for Cobie everybody; Performance; Collaboration with Charlotta Ruth & Kathanrina Kleinschmidt; Mentor: Christine de Smedt; Muffathalle (Munich)
• [moo: ]; Installation Performance; former KfW Bankengruppe office building
• Ein Stück für dich (A Piece for you); Performance; Choreographer: Thomas Lehmen; Worldwide
• On This New Day: Let’s Go To Iran; Performance; Collaboration with Zoya Sardashti; Gwanghwamun Square (Seoul)
• Insanity; Opera; Collaboration with Kiezoper and Anna Katharina Weissenfels, Stattbad Wedding (Berlin)
2012 Ufer/Outside; Dance Performance; Tanznacht 2012; Uferstudios(Berlin)

2. Residency and Presentation
• Residency at Deutsches Nationaltheater und Staatskapelle Weimar(German Nationaltheater Weimar), May 2013 for ‘[Sorry that I always forget to press delete]’
• Residency at Performing Arts Forum(PAF), St. Ermes, March and April 2013 for ‘[Sorry that I always forget to press delete]’
• Selected Artist for the Pitching Presentation of the project ‘[Sorry that I always forget to press delete]’ at Uferstudios during the festival ‘Tanz im August 2013′ in Berlin

My main focus of my work is on identity, the construction of it and the violence behind or upon it. This interest comes from my personal background. I was born in Germany to Korean parents and have mainly lived in Germany, but also in Korea, the U.S. and the U.K. Living in Western countries as an Asian woman has showed me how stereotypes and prejudices of a certain race, e.g. Yellow Face or Asian Prostitute, reproduce not only a hierarchy between ethnicities, but also result in violent encounters such as rape. I addressed in my work ‘[Sorry that I always forget to press delete]’ this problematic, while reconstructing a memory of mine through scientific and subjective tools such as crime scene investigation and body memory.
I am also interested in visible and invisible things, reality and fiction. This was shown in [moo:] which was a guided museum tour mixed with both fiction and reality. It dealt with disappearing landmarks or public spaces, because of corporations constructing more office buildings.
My work in general takes an interest in socio-political issues. However, it shows them not in a direct and uncomfortable way, but rather is presented with humor and through that achieves subversion in it. Currently, I am interested in the nomadic life and the working conditions of emerging artists and how it affects themselves.