Sooah Kwak


Sooah Kwak is a researcher in anthropology and museum professional. Her current research is on leprosy settlement villages in South Korea.

Sooah is a contract Research Scholar at the American Museum of Natural History. Previously, she worked on project Eternal Testimony, an AI archive of Korean “comfort women” oral histories. Sooah holds an MA in Museum Anthropology from Columbia University and a BA in Science, Technology, and Society (STS) and BAS in Art and Technology from Sogang University.

Sooah is also an multimedia artist-activist. Creative projects have been exhibited internationally.

Contact

sooah.k [at] columbia [dot] edu

This website is best viewed on desktop


Sooah Kwak

is a researcher in anthropology and museum professional. Her current research is on leprosy settlement villages in South Korea.

Contact

sooah.k [at] columbia [dot] edu

Museum


Museum experiments with the potential of virtual spaces to shift how we sense and perceive museum walls and the institutional devide between subject and object. The video starts with footage of a software bug where the viewer is stuck “inside” a wall of a virtual museum. As the sense of being stuck becomes reality, museum walls become deconstructed. However, Museum calls attention to the walls again through footage of zoos, where the camera is focused on the violent containment infrastructures such as glass, iron bars, and fences, not the animals exhibited behind. 

Two-channel video installation, 10’5”
Art & Technology Conference 2021
«Quantum Jump: Leap into the future»
12/01/21 - 12/03/21
© 2024. Sooah Kwak. All Rights Reserved.