Chanyoung Park, M.A.
Chanyoung Park is a research assistant at the Institute of Art History and the coordinator of the specialized master’s program Art History in a Global Context. Her PhD dissertation examines the ways in which contemporary diasporic art practitioners re-mediate and subvert experiences of miscommunication, misjudgment and inarticulation into a space of dialogue, intimacy, and creative expression; it also seeks to stretch the disciplinary boundaries of art history by reading these art practices at the intersection of diaspora aesthetics, disability studies, and accent studies. She is currently working on the art practices of Christine Sun Kim, artist duo PIMO (Pixy Liao and Takahiro Morooka), and JJJJJerome Ellis.
She completed her master’s degree in Art History in a Global Context at the University of Zurich and received her bachelor’s degree in Art and Archaeology at Princeton University.
Publications (Peer-Reviewed)
"Dysfluency as Method: Generous and Generative Asynchrony and Access Thievery,” in: Hijacked Futures, eds. Laura Bohnenblust, Thomas Moser, and Barbara Reisinger, Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, 2027, forthcoming.
“Yellow Feelings: Emotional Racialized Encounters and Ornamental Subjectivity,” in: kritische berichte Vol. 53, No. 4 (2025): Antirassistische Kunstgeschichte, eds. CARAH (Daniel Berndt, Nadine Jirka, Charlotte Matter, Rosa Sancarlo) and Henry Kaap, pp. 19–28. https://doi.org/10.11588/kb.2025.4.113083.
Presentations
“Mobilizing Concepts, Arriving at a Positionality,” Workshop Concepts of the Conceptual: Artistic Practices and Frames of Historiography, University of Fribourg, June 3, 2025.
“Sites of Artistic Encounter,” XXI. Swiss Colloquium for Young Art Historians, University of Neuchâtel, April 10, 2025.
Teaching
- MA Seminar "Words: Critical Concepts for Art History in a Global Context," University of Zurich, Spring 2025 (9 ECTS)
- MA Excursion "Paris and the Global: Between Conquest, Collecting and Commerce," University of Zurich, Spring 2025 (9 ECTS) - Co-taught with Prof. Dr. Tristan Weddigen and Dr. Marica Antonucci
