Communication Design

(GREYSPACE)™

DAVID PARK

Exhibition

See it On Campus: Level 2

Visitor Info

(GREYSPACE)™ IS A MULTICULTURAL BRAND AND SPACE FOR THE DIASPORA: FOR PEOPLE WHOSE IDENTITIES ARE SHAPED BY DISPLACEMENT, MIGRATION, OR GENERATIONAL DISTANCE FROM AN ORIGIN CULTURE. IT BRINGS CULTURAL HYBRIDITY TO LIFE THROUGH ART, DESIGN, AND FASHION, CREATING A VISUAL AND TANGIBLE NEW NARRATIVE IN SHARED EXPERIENCES, BELONGING, AND PRIDE.

(GREYSPACE)™ WILL ALLOW THE DIASPORIC COMMUNITY TO SEE THEMSELVES BEING REPRESENTED. THIS BRAND AND SPACE WILL FOSTER NEW CONNECTIONS AND CREATE A RENEWED SENSE OF PRIDE AND BELONGING WHILE EMBRACING LIVING IN THE IN-BETWEEN. (LIVING IN THE GREY AREA).

(GREYSPACE)™ PUBLICATION DESIGN: No. 1: KYoPO EDITION

THIS FIRST EDITION OF (GREYSPACE)™: LIVING AS A KYOPO – WHAT IT MEANS TO LIVE AS A KOREAN OUTSIDE OF KOREA. REDISCOVERING WHO I AM AND THE JOURNEY OF RECONNECTING WITH MY CULTURE/HERITAGE.

THIS FIRST EDITION WILL FEATURE PUBLICATION, CLOTHING AND OTHER DESIGN MATERIAL SHOWCASING A CUSTOM KOREAN-LATIN ENGLISH TYPEFACE, HYBRID ASIAN/WESTERN DESIGN HELPING OTHER KYOPO’S AND THE DIASPORIC COMMUNITY TO CONNECT AND HAVE A NEW SENSE OF BELONGING.

A NEW BRAND FOR CANADIAN BORN OF OTHER CULTURES TO CONNECT WITH EACH OTHER. ABOUT RECLAIMING HERITAGE, CREATING HYBRID CULTURAL NARRATIVES, & BUILDING A SPACE FOR BELONGING THROUGH ART, DESIGN, AND FASHION…

Dari: BRIDGE – CERAMIC SCULPTURE by DAVID PARK

THIS SCULPTURE BEGAN AS A QUESTION:

WHAT DOES A BODY LOOK LIKE WHEN IT IS MADE OF MORE THAN ONE HOME?

LIKE A LIFE LIVED ACROSS BORDERS OR BETWEEN TWO WORLDS. THIS SCULPTURE REPRESENTS THAT IN-BETWEEN SPACE. A SCULPTURE BUILT FROM FRAGMENTS: KOREAN STONE, CANADIAN WIND, DIASPORIC CIRCUITRY, AND THE IMAGINATIVE FREEDOM TO REINVENT WHAT A BODY OF HERITAGE CAN LOOK LIKE AND BE.

IT TELLS THE STORY OF HOW I LEARNED THAT IDENTITY IS NOT A SINGLE FORM TO BE CHOSEN, BUT A STRUCTURE TO BE BUILT, EVER-EVOLVING, AND CONNECTED THROUGH A BRIDGE THAT IS NOT FULLY OF ONE WORLD OR THE OTHER, BUT RATHER THE LIVING SPACE BETWEEN THEM CONNECTING BOTH WORLDS TOGETHER.