Public Talk
Narratives to Contextualize Feelings: Conversations with author & artist Sheung-King/JeeMin Kim
2pm, 03 December 2025
Room 208, North House, 1 Devonshire Place, Toronto, ON, M5S 3K7
The first half of this talk will feature the author discussing the novel’s ability to capture the social and political effects of place. The second half of the talk will focus on performance. Presented in Seoul, Hong Kong and now Toronto, JeeMin Kim and Sheung-King’s interdisciplinary art project Displaced Nostalgia uses multiple media: performance, writing, and installation, to create time spaces where audiences can begin to articulate feelings of displacement.
Throughout this talk, the author will invite the audience to respond to writing prompts, an integral part of how his characters communicate with one another in his novels, as well as how JeeMin and Sheung-King engage with audiences during their performances. The event will conclude with a conversation between the audience and the creators of Displaced Nostalgia, JeeMin Kim and Sheung-King, who will be performing at Inter/Access on December 6th, 2025, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Click here to register.