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A young Yu: Mourning Rituals
Dec 14, 2022 - May 07, 2023
11:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Closed: 12/24 & 12/31 at 3PM. Closed: 12/25. Open: 1-5PM on 1/1/23.
650/723-4177
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A young Yu’s work engages with Korean folklore, ritual, and dance, reinterpreting and regenerating it for contemporary, diasporic contexts. Mourning Rituals is a performance-based video reimagining the Korean ssitkimgut ritual, during which the spirits of the deceased are cleansed and guided into the afterlife.
SF/Arts Curator Insight
Available until May 7th at the Cantor Arts Center, “A young Yu: Morning Rituals” is a video installation documenting and storytelling a ritual of mourning. Creating from Korean folklore and dance, A young Yu offers striking visuals and imaginative embodied performances. I feel the boundaries between natural and inhuman, dead and alive, ooze into blurry and animated energy. This piece taps into an incredible divine energy and is not to be missed.
Luke Williams
Contributing Writer
The Cantor Arts Center plays a leading role in the vibrant, cultural life of the Stanford campus and greater community, welcoming some 200,000 visitors a year. Its collections include more than 38,000 works of art, spanning 5,000 years of history and crossing continents from the Americas to Europe, and from Africa to Asia.
The Cantor Arts Center plays a leading role in the vibrant, cultural life of the Stanford campus and greater community, welcoming some 200,000 visitors a year. Its collections include more than 38,000 works of art, spanning 5,000 years of history and crossing continents from the Americas to Europe, and from Africa to Asia.