Ji Yoon Moon (PhD, completed 2016)

Ji Yoon was born in 1978 in Seoul, Korea. As a curator and writer, she lives and works in both Seoul and in London. She is currently a Ph.D candidate in the Curatorial/Knowledge Programme at Goldsmiths University, working with the notion of jester. The jester is a “professional fool” hired by the court, has access to speak directly to the King. However, the jester is not able to bring about any real change as he is only allowed to speak under a mask. Yet, it is this mask and its “eternal betrayal of representation” that has formulated the triggering question in the project; can the reflection on the ambivalence inherent in the figure of jester be translated as a strategy for cultural producers causing possible disturbances to the conventional operation of agency and the institutional demand of emancipating the “condemned spectator”?

She holds a M.A. in Curating Contemporary Art from the Royal College of Arts and a B.A. in History of Art from Cornell University. She has worked in various areas of art, architecture and performance projects, including exhibitions, public programs, seminars and publications at the Sonje Art Center, Anyang Public Art Project, Venice Architecture Biennale and Nam June Paik Art Center.

Interests: contemporary theatre; performance theory (the conventional dramatic discourses, the speech-act theory, the language-game theory); Jacques Rancière’s theatrical conception of politics.