For the 18th episode of AW CLASSROOM, curator Kiara Cristina Ventura interviews artist TJ Shin about how they use their practices in science and art to speak on colonialism, the body, queerness, and identity.

TJ Shin is a Canadian-Korean artist living and working in Los Angeles, California. Shin explores the porousness of bodily boundaries and the ceaseless movement of living processes, like fermentation, echoing the history of colonialism. They are interested in the history of conquest and the literal digestion of materials – smells, microbes, and food – as a system of relations that emerges from a complicated history of entanglement.

Follow their work at: @fff00slut on IG

TJ Shin links:

https://www.corneliamag.com/article-set/microbes-bodies-biomes-borders-a-pandemic-ferment

https://www.recessart.org/anaiwataki/

https://aaa.org.hk/en/ideas/ideas/yellow-skin-white-gold

*Cover image of TJ Shin by Mary Kang @Mary.kang *

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*This episode is wonderfully sponsored by Flower Shop Collective. *

Flower Shop Collective is an art and fabrication studio that cultivates the ideas of emerging artists working towards more equitable futures. Their goal is to help artists of all skill levels execute their ideas, learn new techniques and have a safe space to do so, with a prioritization on immigrant artists, artists of color, and women-identifying artists. También les ofrecen todos estos servicios en Español. For more information please head to flowershopcollective.com or @flowershopcollective on Instagram.

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