Book Talk: The Center Lies on the Outside: Rirkrit Tiravanija and the Art of Noji 爐址 (Croma Editions, 2025). The book brings together stories formed around Next Door to the Museum, a rural farmhouse turned artist residency in Jeju, South Korea, reflecting on land-based living inspired by site-specific work by Rirkrit Tiravanija, commissioned for the 3rd Jeju Biennale.
Yujin Lee (Korean, Co-author / Translator) and other speakers to be announced soon.
Biography:
Yujin Lee (b. 1986 in Daegu, Korea) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Jeju Island. She earned a BFA from Cornell University and an MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University. After living in Berlin (2010-2013) and New York (2013-2017), she purchased and renovated a farmhouse in Jeju Island, where she lives and runs an alternative artist residency, Next Door to the Museum. Lee is currently pursuing a PhD in Cultural Mediation at Yonsei University in Seoul.
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