Jaime Sunwoo on SPAM

October 14, 2018
11:00am

Join us at the cHURCH as artist Jaime Sunwoo serves a SPAM (and veggie!) fried rice brunch and discusses her project, Specially Processed American Me. This is a free event.

Jaime Sunwoo’s Specially Processed American Me is a multidisciplinary performance and workshop series using SPAM, the canned meat, to share memories of her Korean-American upbringing and her family’s accounts of the Korean War. You’ll learn a bit about SPAM history, her writing and design process, and why she uses SPAM as a metaphor for the Asian American experience. Feel free to bring a SPAM dish to share!

To learn more about her project, visit speciallyprocessed.com and follow @speciallyprocessed on Facebook and Instagram.

Jaime Sunwoo is a Korean-American multidisciplinary artist from Brooklyn, New York. She combines video, audio, sculpture, and storytelling to create sensory performances in galleries, theaters, and public spaces. Her works are part playful, part tragic, and often examine food as a way to discuss identity, history, and death. She studied art at Yale University and is a fellow at the Laundromat Project for socially engaged art. Her site-specific projects include The Creature for the DUMBO Arts Festival, and interactive bar installation Earshot. She has collaborated with Whoop Dee Doo, and appeared on PBS’s Art21. Her upcoming public work Ear to Ear will be performed at Art in Odd Places 2018. Her ongoing project Specially Processed American Me was shown at the FailSafe Festival, OYE! Avant Garde Festival at JACK, Asian American Arts Alliance, and Gallery Madison Park.