We welcome you to join us for the second Canal Janchii 잔치 gathering! This program invites a trio of artists - Martina Cox, Joiri Minaya and Azita Moradkhani - who incorporate garments and textiles in their practice to present a PechaKucha lecture on how these textiles hold meaning in their work.

Titled Canal Janchi 잔, this program invites artists who use garments in their practice to present a PechaKucha lecture on how these textiles hold meaning in their work. This PechaKucha series takes inspiration from our exhibiting artist Jakkai Siributr’s frequent use of garments to comment on family as well as social and political histories in Thailand. For example, Jakkai gathered uniforms from members of the tourist industry who lost work during COVID in the Outworn series, and brought together his late mothers clothing to reflect on his matrilineal lineage in Broadlands.

To start the lecture series, artist Christina Yuna Ko will guide a somatic and writing exercise to open the Janchi 잔치 and cultivate its intimate yet convivial atmosphere. Driven from research into ritual and its role in the diasporic home, Canal Janchi 잔치 conceptualizes the Korean word for town festivals/feasts to make space to share the threads connecting ourselves and our contexts revealed in the daily life material of garments. Alongside the opening exercises, Christina will adorn the space with hanging textiles reimagining Janchi 잔치 from her archives and memories, while also drawing upon the Buddhist framework of ritual adornment janguhm (장엄) to help us carry conversations that center the experience of garments as embodied and beyond the self.