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June Pak is a visual artist who works closely with time-based and digital media. While her work utilizes the technological means, her subject matter deals with the human-ness in the multiple/fragmented existence of the Self. Her single-channel video double has shown widely at festivals and screenings in Canada, the United States, the UK, The Netherlands and Germany. Her video installations have exhibited around Canada and Italy: Untitled (Milan, IT, 2005), Aesthetics of Resistance (Como, IT, 2005), Khyber Centre for the Arts (Halifax, CA, 2004), Truck Gallery (Calgary, CA, 2004), Gallery 44 (Toronto, CA, 2002), Media City 8 (Windsor, CA, 2002). In 2004, she received K.M. Hunter Artist Award in Visual Arts, which acknowledges the emerging talents in the arts. She teaches Time-Based Media and Interdisciplinary Studio courses at the University of Western Ontario in London and Ontario College of Art & Design in Toronto.
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My work deals with an investigation of the Self, situated within the realm of the transit: between the reality of the technology and the existential banality, the paradox in culture/ nurture and, the understanding of the here and there. The subject is constantly questioned in its relation to where, when, what and with whom. However, at this present moment, reality is often mixed with the virtual of the media. Through technology, space and time have been redefined and living has been expanded to multiple realities where the extended body resides in a form of mimesis.
Being in the in-between situation myself – as a Korean Canadian, both as a producer and a consumer, being desired and desiring, etc. – is translated and reinterpreted through the use of images in such a way that duplicates and/ or splits images into multiple monitors and/ or screens in my installations and single channel videos. The images are generated from the same body, moment and activity, yet are separated by before and after, top and bottom, then and now, subject and object, and now and later. The intention in my work is the result of the co-existence of different time and space within oneself.
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