Jan Mun
OSGF
Interdisciplinary Residency, Five-Week, Session II
Jan Mun is a media artist that creates social sculptures working with digital and living media. The landscape has become her framework to unfold stories about others and herself by using a combination of artistic and scientific processes that manifest in the form of interactive installations, photography, performance, and bio-art. Jan creates interfaces to elicit participation as a reflection and critique of our political and social systems. Working with communities such as Newtown Creek Alliance, BeeVillageNYC, NYC Mycological Society, and the Soil & Microbiology labs at Brooklyn College Jan innovates ideas to be realized through research, chance, and collaboration.
Long-term projects include: -ProfileUS: Invasive Species – A series of social sculptures and interactive installations that examine the biopolitics of the East Asian female migration in the United States. This project looks at the interconnections made by humans and other species that have migrated to the US and are adapting to their new or established environments through the lens of art, technology, and biopolitics.
-The Fairy Rings: Mycoremediation and Greenpoint Bioremediation Project (gBP) – As the Artist in Residence of Newtown Creek Alliance, work explores the use of biological agents to remediate toxins in creative cleanup and collaboration with local partners and communities surrounding Newtown Creek.