Sun Park
About
Sun Park is a visual artist and writer based in San Francisco. Sensory overload, disassociation, collective effervescence, stimming: Park responds to bodily sensations that signal the connection between internal and external environments, the porous boundaries where identity is formed and altered. Park’s work is informed by their experiences with the white Protestant church, Korean shamanism, and Bay Area landscapes, which they syncretize into an embodied spirituality. Their practice is hybrid, ranging from multisensory installation to video, ceramics, drawing, sculpture and interactive ritual. When the surface of a body meets the surface of an environment, they seep through borders, and flow into each other.
Park holds an MFA from SFSU, was a fellow at Kearny Street Workshop’s Interdisciplinary Writer’s Fellowship, is a current Mentorship and Exhibition Fellow with SFAC Main Gallery, and has presented work at /room/ (slash gallery), 41 Ross, Aggregate Space, Southern Exposure, Root Division, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and Alternate Space LOOP, among others. Lately, Park has been performing stand up.
Maintenance Actions
About a year ago I was facing a lot of change in my life. I felt an ever increasing dread because of the losses from these changes. So I decided to memorize poetry. It was a treasure that I could store in my mind, the most protected space I have. As long as I could remember it, I could keep it. In these videos you see my reciting “San Francisco Bay Dawn Ode” by Sharon Olds and “I Guess I Thought By Now I’d Be Done With Shame” by Franny Choi