Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Gund Commons,11400 Euclid Avenue
Woori Sori (Our Voice) is a Chicago-based, all-women’s Korean percussion group that uses four of the traditional Korean percussion instruments involved in the folk music tradition of pungmul to create space for people to share a powerful connection through dance, singing, and drumming. This performance is in response to group member and artist Aram Han Sifuentes’s solo exhibition at moCa, Who Was This Built to Protect? The exhibition centers around a set of six large-scale red silk curtains with white text that spans the museum’s Gund Commons. The curtains are modeled after Red Cards created by the Immigrant Legal Resource Center with language that outlines the rights and protections held by all people under the U.S. Constitution, regardless of immigration status. Situated in front of these curtains, Woori Sori’s performance inspires conversations about the intellectual, physical, and emotional labor it takes to become a U.S. citizen, as well as the ways in which immigrant communities preserve their cultural identities and traditions even after renouncing citizenship to their home countries. Following the performance, Woori Sori will discuss their work and how it connects to creative histories of protest.
This event is co-sponsored by the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland and is part of the 2022 Cleveland Humanities Festival: Discourse.
Registration is requested. Register HERE.