Nam June Paik Art Center will host a book talk to celebrate the publication of the first Joan Jonas monograph released in Korea. Joan Jonas (USA, b. 1936) is the recipient of the 8th Nam June Paik Art Award. Anthropologist Noh Gowoon and art historian Jieun Rhee, authors of Joan Jonas - The More-than-Human World, will join the conversation along with Yi Soojung, editor at Yeolhwadang (the book’s publisher), as panelists. Kim Yoonseo, curator who has organized exhibitions and publications including projects related to the Nam June Paik Prize, will moderate. Together, the speakers will discuss the book’s aims and key themes from multiple perspectives—exhibition-making, research, and publishing—offering an opportunity to consider the “The More-than-Human World” that Joan Jonas’s work evokes.

Participants Kim Yoonseo (Curator) As curator of the 8th Nam June Paik Prize—overseeing the selection process, organizing the award exhibition, and planning the accompanying publication—Kim has examined Joan Jonas’s practice across different formats and contexts. In this talk, Kim will introduce the book’s central questions and editorial direction.

Noh Gowoon (Anthropologist) She received her PhD in anthropology from the University of California, Davis. She is currently teaching and researching in the Department of Anthropology at Chonnam National University. Her work focuses on ecology and environmental issues through the frameworks of multispecies ethnography, posthumanism, and ecofeminist theory. She is co-author of Women Researchers, Crossing Lines and Asian Women Persist, and has translated Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing’s The Mushroom at the End of the World and co-translated Greta Gaard’s Critical Ecofeminism.

Jieun Rhee (Art Historian) She earned her BA in western painting and art theory from Seoul National University and her PhD in art history from Boston University. She is currently Professor in the Department of Art History at Myongji University. She has served as Visiting Scholar in the Division of History, Theory, and Criticism of Architecture and Art (HTC) program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as External Faculty Fellow at Newhouse Center for the Humanities at Wellesley College, and as President of the Association of Western Art History, Korea. Her research focuses on globalism in contemporary art, media art, and art in the Anthropocene. Her publications include Five Senses and Contemporary Art; and, as coauthor, Feminism Art Theory: An Anthology 1968–2014 (Wiley Blackwell) and My Paik Nam June: Memories, Conservation, and the Spread of Discourse. Recent essays include “Human, Machine, and Interface: Nam June Paik’s Works in the 1960s” and “Just Like Them: Encounter with the Non-Human Beings in the works of Tomás Saraceno and Joan Jonas.”

Yi Soojung(Editor/Yeolhwadang) As a publishing editor, she currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of Yeolhwadang. For over 20 years, she has produced books that bridge Korean culture and visual art, and has also developed exhibitions that extend books into exhibition formats. She has planned exhibitions including John Berger’s Sketchbook and Plum and Iris, and has led essay workshops at PaTI (Paju Typography Institute). She received the Korean Publishers Association Best Edited Book Award for Moonlit Night: The Complete Works of Sangheo Lee Tae-jun, Vol. 1.