Part of the 2024-25 ReMemory: Experiments in Listening, Authorship and Knowledge-Keeping Series

The first event of ReMemory: Experiments in Listening, Authorship and Knowledge-Keeping features OHMA Alum, Ariel Urim Chung, who will speak about her Brodsky-award winning thesis work and larger artistic practice. The Jeffrey H. Brodsky Oral History Award is given to a student whose thesis makes an important contribution to knowledge and most exemplifies the rigor, creativity, and ethical integrity that OHMA teaches its students. Urim Chung’s thesis work, “Eating Asian: Listening to Asiatic Femininity in the Kitchen” contemplates the embodied experiences of diasporic Asian mothers, daughters, and non-binary children and their relationship to food and maternal figures. Chung’s work models ways to utilize the possibilities of a relational practice with sound as a medium that reassesses the power balance of the interlocutors of oral history.

This event will feature a presentation by Urim Chung followed by a Q and A with the audience.

Ariel Urim Chung (she/her) is a scholar and artist working across performance, technology, and food history. She interrogates the visceral connection between consumption, gender, and race in transformations of reproductive labor. How are racialized bodies consumed? How do structures of care turn into those of violence towards racialized and gendered bodies? Her work constantly struggles with and imagines how to redefine academic research. You can find her in theaters, installations, and writings holding various roles such as The Kitchen Project’s director, Visiting Scholar at NYU’s Asian/Pacific/American Institute, Jeffrey H. Brodsky Oral History Award Winner, and MAGIC Grantee at the Columbia University’s Brown Institute for Media Innovation. She is now formally with Rutgers University-Newark’ American Studies program as a PhD student. Currently, Ariel is experimenting, merging her academic directions and artistic mediums to create something foreign to herself.www.arielurimchung.com