{"id":123533,"date":"2022-10-26T10:59:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T14:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=123533"},"modified":"2022-10-26T11:42:16","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T15:42:16","slug":"struts-artist-in-residence-offers-rituals-of-belonging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/struts-artist-in-residence-offers-rituals-of-belonging\/","title":{"rendered":"Struts artist-in-residence offers ‘rituals of belonging’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Artist and curator Myung-Sun Kim has been spending the last few weeks in residence at Struts Gallery, preparing to host Sackvillians in Bubble, Burn, Gather: Rituals for Belonging<\/em> this Wednesday at the Sackville Community Garden.<\/p>\n

The event will feature sharing in makgeolli, a Korean fermented rice wine, as well as other snacks, and rituals being planned by Kim and collaborator, poet Jody Chan.<\/p>\n

Kim won\u2019t share too many details about what the rituals will be, but there will be a short writing ritual that can be done collectively and also independently, and the snacks on offer will figure into the experience. \u201cEvery component of what we\u2019re going to be having is going to be part of the ritual,\u201d says Kim. \u201cThe important part is that people come with whatever comfort level they feel comfortable in, and we\u2019ll have very cozy ties around the fire over.<\/p>\n

Hear Myung-Sun Kim in conversation on Tantramar Report:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n

While in residence at Struts, Kim has been brewing makgeolli as well as ginger beer thanks to help from the Struts community. \u201cWe actually needed all these vessels and a dehydrator and all sorts of different equipment,\u201d says Kim, all of which was borrowed from different people in the Sackville community, including a ceramic vessel from Struts programming director Simone Schmidt, a family heirloom used by their grandmother to make plum wine.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn a way, I feel like this community actually made this makgeolli together,\u201d says Kim, who\u2019s been moved by the friendliness of her experience in Struts\u2019 Open Studio program.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is one of the warmest, welcoming places I\u2019ve been to in a very long time,\u201d says Kim. \u201cAnd much of that has to do with Struts staff, who really welcomed and introduced me to their community here and invited me over for dinner and things like that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kim has been making makgeolli in part as a way of reconnecting with the history of her Korean background, some of which is not written in the history books.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I started making makgeolli, it gave me access to elders who carry these stories that were never published,\u201d says Kim. \u201cOr, you know, it wasn\u2019t in any of the literature that I found.\u201d The rice wine was actually outlawed through a good part of its 200 year history. Stabilized versions are sometimes available for commercial sale, but the drink as brewed traditionally is something that changes with time, says Kim. \u201cIt\u2019s a spirit that stays living, and every day it transforms and becomes more effervescent.\u201d<\/p>\n

For Kim, brewing the living spirit is \u201ca way to carry my ancestors with me in the places I go, but also be able to share it with other people.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kim says she\u2019s excited at the prospect of meeting and connecting with new people at Bubble, Burn, Gather<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s very generous of people to give their time. Coming out of the pandemic, where we\u2019ve been isolated long enough, this could be a really generative and healing ritual to do collectively, together, in a way that\u2019s safe,\u201d says Kim.<\/p>\n

\u201cHopefully, this will be something that can bring people together, regardless of whether it\u2019s strangers or people coming from different paths of life,\u201d says the artist.<\/p>\n

Bubble, Burn, Gather: Rituals for Belonging<\/em> is happening Wednesday, Oct. 26, 5 p.m.-7:30 p.m., at the Sackville Community Garden. The event is free and open to all ages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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