Shannon Kim

Episódios

• The Intricate History of Victorian Jewelry 19.02.2026 18min

  The origins behind your lockets, hair albums, and gold chain watches!
• How Do You Own Movement? Alysa Liu to Martha Graham 27.02.2026 38min

  Headphone warning :,( there’s a strange clicking sound in my audio from my “mic” that reappears throughout that I didn’t notice until I started editing so I apologize… please bear with me. I take this as a sign that I need to actually get a mic. This video is me trying to grapple with the incredibly complex concept of how to define ownership of movement, of dance and very heavily inspired by recent events of Alysa Liu winning gold at the 2026 Milan Olympics, Martha Graham and the legalities of choreography, Kazuko Miyamoto, West African dancers, and Herbert Read (again lol), and FKA twigsREFERENCES: F.R. David Spring 2024 - Erratum - https://i-n-g-a.com/collections/all/products/f-r-david-spring-2024-erratum Artist, Authorship & Legacy: A Reader - https://www.artbook.com/9781909932456.html The Martha Graham Technique (c) 1975 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuCbs25LGh0 1938-39 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Et-M7qid2eA Rite of Spring - https://musicformartha.com/videos-list/ Embattled Garden - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtvBRzF8aDU Martha Graham performing “Tanagra” (1926) - https://www.instagram.com/reel/C8fcsVDP1g0/ Yuriko performing “Primitive Mysteries” troupes-performance-sensitive-and.html Paranoid Finance - Muniesa - https://dokumen.pub/paranoid-finance.html Gloria Mcleon choreography - https://vimeo.com/954239122 2022 Chuma-Miyamoto (1979 remake) - https://youtu.be/y1mEp1mbZB0?si=NF6IUJUJ9lDMwN_W&t=1553 Dramaturgy in Motion: Dance Performance - https://www.scribd.com/document/961416878/Dramaturgy-in-Motion-At-Work-on-Dance-and-Movement-Performance-1st-Edition-Katherine-Profeta To Hell with Culture - Herbert Read - https://archive.org/details/tohellwithcultur00read_0
• Why people think “culture is dead” 19.02.2026 49min

  Longest video yet! I have had two months of much needed self reflection + books to read… I discuss Claire Bishop’s theory on attention, automatism, AI, mid century modern Facebook Marketplace slop, address the hyperfication of media trends causing a reduction in itself, Franco Berardi, Italian Futurism, Herbert Read….. actually I’m going to stop listing things because basically I kind of talk about a lot. But long answer short, NO. it is not dead. Happy Valentine’s day btw _________________ BIBLIO: To Hell with Culture - Herbert Read (https://archive.org/details/tohellwithcultur00read_0) Disordered Attention - Claire Bishops (https://monoskop.org/images/a/a5/Bishop_Claire_Disordered_Attention_How_We_Look_at_Art_and_Performance_Today_2024.pdf) Abandoned Houses - Sam Durant (https://www.samdurant.net/work/abandoned-houses/) → Sam Durant (https://www.samdurant.net/) Grass Roots of Art - Herbert Read (https://archive.org/details/grassrootsofartf00read) Chaos and the Automation - Franco Bifo Berardi (https://www.e-flux.com/books/619254/chaos-and-the-automaton) Symbolic Exchange and Death - Jean Baudrillard (https://dn790009.ca.archive.org/0/items/Baudrillard/Baudrillard.1976.Symbolic-Exchange-and-Death.pdf) The Smartness Mandate - Orit Halpern and Robert Mitchell (https://wvw.zlibrary.to/dl/the-smartness-mandate-0) Cheddar: NYC Oyster Dumping (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kinmq0UPizg) MoMA 2010 "Oyster-recture" (https://www.scapestudio.com/projects/oyster-tecture/)
• Art in the AI Bubble: Guns, Fences, and the Farm Crisis 19.02.2026 30min

  Hello everyone! Thank you for being patient. This video is on how I understood the theoretical framework of Chris Burden’s reactionary performance art and Christo and Jeanne Claude’s land installations to parallel today’s current crises of financial speculation’s consequences and the American farming debt crisis. ________________ REFERENCES: https://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/1130/132 https://www.ucpress.edu/books/models-of-integrity/hardcover https://christojeanneclaude.net/artworks/running-fence/ https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/S/bo125281793.html https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-anarchy-in-a-manner-of-speaking https://www.dukeupress.edu/artist-audience-accomplice https://www.youtube.com/@FarmToTaber https://youtube.com/shorts/TklKMfT31Ds?si=7PQv9MOKWTnaoLQu https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xon9A5_4tQw https://youtu.be/cl02K72QFS0?si=2yf1jDN-KmN9CWn3 https://youtu.be/r5xxTIPKY8s?si=KFXZX5ro3jdUG_H2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7YxjG1tcAU https://www.cato.org/commentary/americas-latest-farmer-crisis-government-grown
• Beer, software, and Internet Art 19.02.2026 36min

  I apologize if this video was a little more jumbled and less cohesive than my previous ones. I think I tried my best to be coherent when trying to tackle connecting such broad and large and relevant topics under one thematic logic within a singular video. This one is a little more literary heavy than art related as well ————————— SUPERFLEX’s projects: https://www.superflex.net/files/SUPERFLEX_TOOLS.pdf https://www.zdnet.com/article/open-source-and-craft-brewing/ https://rdnlsmith.com/ https://www.e-flux.com/journal/77/77374/digital-provenance-and-the-artwork-as-derivative https://ojs.weizenbaum-institut.de/index.php/wjds/article/view/3_1_2 https://thebaffler.com/latest/capitalisms-new-clothes-morozov https://thebaffler.com/salvos/taming-tech-criticism https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvzgb898 https://archive.org/details/internetartonlin0000stal https://citylights.com/art/in-the-flow/ https://alandunn67.co.uk/phdcorridor1.pdf https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Code.html?id=4HeNEAAAQBAJ
• The Reality of the Art Girlfriend Finance Boyfriend Trope: Gentrification & Its Correlation to Art 19.02.2026 36min

  Hello ^_^ Finally will be adding a bibliography to my videos… thank you for being patient with me! I also have a Goodreads if you look me up @ Shannon Kim ———————————- David Harvey, Spaces of neoliberalization: towards a theory of uneven geographical development: https://arxiujosepserradell.cat/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Spaces-of-neoliberalization_-towards-a-theory-of-uneven-geographical-development-David-Harvey.pdf Gentrification, displacement and the arts: Untangling the relationship between arts industries and place change - https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0042098016680169 Moskowitz, Artsy - https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-role-artists-play-gentrification Chiara Valli - Artistic careers in the cyclicality of art scenes and gentrification: symbolic capital accumulation through space in Bushwick, NYC - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02723638.2021.1902122#abstract “REALTY: Beyond the Traditional Blueprints of Art & Gentrification" edited by Tirdad Zolghadr Against Charity - https://www.counterpunch.org/product/against-charity/ Ben Davis - Art in the After Culture Haus de Statistik - https://hausderstatistik.org/en/
• Art in the Consumer Debt Crisis: Klarna, Abercrombie & Fitch, Christine Sun Kim 19.02.2026 32min

  Thank you for being patient ^_^ This video I read alotttt of books in preparation for and tried to fit all into a singular video. I admit it was a bit difficult to truly relevantly connect the threads between the barter economy, Nicolas Bourriaud, MoMA, Christine Sun Kim, Klarna, Grailed, David Graeber and the rise and fall of Abercrombie & Fitch, but I think I have managed to do it. Hooray
• Sewing, Startup Capitalism, & South Korea 19.02.2026 28min

  In this video I discuss the significance of Kimsooja’s bottari sculptural sewing pieces, feminist perspectives on startup capitalism in Bengeluru, and Ham Kyungah’s threaded chandelier works in relation to South Korea’s questioned position as a sovereign state. I read a lot of cool books for this video so I hope it inspires you to browse them as well :)
• The Politics of Performance Art & TikTok Street Interviews 19.02.2026 27min

  Today I discuss Claire Bishop’s book, “Artificial Hells, Participatory Art & the Poltiics of Spectatorship” where she discusses how reactionary art is authentic for its spontaneity and inseparable nature of current context. What does it mean to be both a spectator and a performer in the digital age of content with rising trends of Twitch live streams and TikTok street interviews?
• Situationist Movement: the myth of the creative director 19.02.2026 23min

  I'm sorry about the weird editing in the beginning :( Youtube copyrighted me for me Chet Baker song intro and trimmed it very sloppiiy out causing a weird weird cut in the beginning... I swear my editing skills are better I'm sorry!!! In this video I discuss McKenzie Wark’s book “Leaving the Twentieth Century” regarding Situationist International, a radical neo-Marxist/neo-Dada/neo-surrealist philosophical “art” movement that radicalized popular anarchist and conceptual art today. I connect it in relation with my strong sentiment against creative directors, usage of Pinterest, and commodity identity politics.
• Why I Hate Found Object Art 19.02.2026 18min

  In this video I heavily reference and discuss Eunsong Kim’s “The Politics of Collecting”, a book on critical art history and how legal notions of property become foundational to avant-garde and modern understandings of innovation in conceptual art and experimental poetry. This video title is reactionary on purpose! I don’t actually hate it I’m just offering a critique that Eunsong brings up that is quite relevant to today’s media culture/aesthetics.
• Bolivia’s Female Graffiti Artists: Radical Latin American Female Skate Culture and Street Art 19.02.2026 20min

  Hello friends and art history enthusiasts! Out of all the video essays I’ve made so far, this one by far has been the most in depth, interactive, and time-consuming to make, but one I’m very proud of and will cherish. I spent a week working at the annual Smithsonian Folklife Festival and met such incredible artists, musicians, and academics who taught me so much in such a short span of time. One participant, Imilla Skate, an all-woman skate crew from Cochabamba Bolivia, really inspired me to make this video centered on the radical weight that graffiti art holds as an art medium in the capitalist sphere. I hope this video teaches you something and I hope that you, too, are inspired by this amazing group of women. Follow them on Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/imillaskate/?hl=en Smithsonian Folklife’s Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/smithsonianfolklife Translator: Carlos Izmieta https://www.instagram.com/izzycarlos/ { Thank you to Sojin Kim for this wonderful opportunity ! :) }
• Dansaekhwa: A Hidden Korean Contemporary Art 19.02.2026 17min

  Hello ! :) In this video I’ll be discussing Dansaekhwa, a 70’s contemporary art method practice that was birthed from the turmoil of the Korean civil war and socioeconomic unrest. It embodies the Korean culture of endurance, sacrifice, and generational sorrow that is unique to the Korean diaspora and cannot be referenced in relation to any other. I heavily reference Joan Kee’s book: “Contemporary Korean Art: Tansaekhwa and the Urgency of Method” if you’re interested in reading!
• Marisol Escobar: The Forgotten Feminine Icon of the Pop Art Scene 19.02.2026 27min

  Hello!!! I feel like a bigger thing I’m trying to emphasize is using this platform as more than a digital archive and also as a space to uplift previous marginalized and previously unheard artists that I think deserve more recognition. Marisol Escobar was more than a beautiful face in Warhol’s films, she was an outstanding leading figure in the New York 60’s pop art scene and it’s astonishing that she isn’t as known as her male counterpart companions such as Lichtenstein and Warhol. I hope you enjoy :))))
• Faith Ringgold: A Lesson in Radical Quiltmaking 19.02.2026 19min

  Faith Ringgold is more than just an artist – she's a storyteller, a trailblazer, and a cultural icon. Through her vibrant quilts, she's woven together stories of struggle, resilience, and hope, all while breaking barriers in the art world. I had fun making this one and tried to include a lot of personal tidbits :)
• Miné Okubo: Japanese American Art as Historical Records 19.02.2026 18min

  In this video I discuss Miné Okubo, Japanese American artist and former internment camp prisoner. Her impact on how we remember the tragic years of Japanese American internment is forever commemorated through her daily portrayals of life and I hope this video can also serve as a commemoration for the greater recognition she deserves.
• Bojagi: The Historical Korean Art of Gift-Giving 19.02.2026 17min

  Gift-giving has always been my love language, so making a video essay on my ethnic culture’s textile art form historically associated with bestowing gifts was absolutely necessary for me to make. Enjoy :))))
• Ruth Asawa: A Visionary Interpreter of Lines 19.02.2026 13min

  Hi!! Today I talk about Ruth Asawa, a visionary in the world of post-war contemporary sculptural design who was strong,y influenced by the allure of interpreting silhouettes and her childhood as a former Japanese American internment camp prisoner.
• 1920’s Fashion: Why We Need To Talk About It 19.02.2026 9min

  In this video I discuss the beauty and new perspective of feminine elegance that was born in the 20’s, and how the iconic flapper dress and bob duo embodies it. This was one is a lot shorter and a little different from formatting of past videos but I wanted to start cutting down my videos a little for viewing (and editing) purposes.
• Wu Shanzhuan: A Revolution in Interpretation of Chinese Calligraphy 19.02.2026 18min

  Today I talk about Wu Shanzhuan, one of the most prominent figures of the 1980s Conceptual art movement in China and a pioneer of incorporating textual pop references into his art. His art is Conceptual in nature, often dealing with issues surrounding language. He is known for his experimental works with language and the use of big character posters inspired by propaganda used by the People’s Republic of China in the 60’s. In this era when Chinese conceptual art generally faced a rethink, his works attest a vibrancy of concept and the power of thoughts. Enjoy!