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kdpark@ucsd.edu
Biography:
Kyong Park was born in Korea and moved to the United States at the age of twelve. He received a BS in Architecture from the University of Michigan in 1978 and participated in a post-graduate independent program at the Institute of Architecture and Urban Studies in 1979. He was the founding director of Centrala Foundation for Future Cities in Rotterdam [2005], a co-curator of “Europe Lost and Found,” a project on future geography of Europe, and a founding member of “Lost Highway,” a mass expedition through nine cities in the Western Balkans. He is the editor of Urban Ecology: Detroit and Beyond [2005], a co-curator for “Shrinking Cities” in Berlin [2002-2004], the founding director of International Center for Urban Ecology in Detroit [1999-2001], a curator of Kwangju Biennale in South Korea [1997], a Loeb Fellow at Harvard University [1996], and the founder/director of StoreFront for Art and Architecture in New York [1982-98].
As an architect, artist, urban theorist and activist Kyong Park's research and artistic practice focuses on the city. He is particularly interested in the conditions which give rise to shrinking cities (Detroit, for instance) and expanding cities (as in Asia) and to the formation and reconfiguration of border cities (such as San Diego/Tijuana). His current work is focused on Asian cities. "The New Silk Roads" is a research project based on a planned expedition from Istanbul to Tokyo. This expedition is a way of gathering images and information in order to understand the relation between the physical movements of products/labor/resources and the immaterial movements of information/capital/services over the real and virtual landscapes of Asia. Its purpose is to better understand the cultural, political and economic interplay between East and West. Kyong Park has been appointed as an artist in Public Culture within the Visual Arts Department and he will be working to develop a program in Public Culture. He will teach across a range of courses, both practical and historical/theoretical, contributing to the undergraduate studio art area with project-driven classes on the city, and to the art history area with a course on the Asian city. At the graduate level he will teach a course entitled "Curating Public Culture."
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