SELECTED ESSAYS

“With a Heart Singing Stars, I Will Love All Dying Things: On the Work of Jane Jin Kaisen”, Chus Martínez, commissioned by MMCA and SBS Foundation for Korea Artist Prize 2024

“Liquid Hauntology of Ieodo: Effervescent Eco/Echography”, Kim Soyoung, 2024, commissioned by MMCA and SBS Foundation for Korea Artist Prize 2024

“Voice and the words of others: Jane Jin Kaisen´s Community of Parting”, Clara Han, 2022

“To Gather, To Part, To Return: An Aesthetics of Abandonment”, by Crystal Munhye Baik, in Community of Parting, published by Art Sonje Center 2021

“Diasporic Condition: Jane Jin Kaisen’s Strange Meetings And Its Tracing of Ambiguous Colonial Vestiges” by Soyi Kim, 2021

“Bari, the Wilderness, and the Liminal: On Jane Jin Kaisen’s Community of Parting” by Hyunjin Kim in Community of Parting, 2020

”Social Death and Being out of Time” by Anselm Franke in History Has Failed Us, but No Matter, The Korean Pavilion 58th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Mousse Publishing, 2019 / Community of Parting, 2020

“In Search of a Weighing Lightness” by Pujita Guha and Abhijan Toto for the Forest Curriculum in Community of Parting, 2020

“To Be Is to Be Part of an Ecosystem; Thoughts on the Natural Environment and Matriarchy in Jane Jin Kaisen’s Community of Parting” by Heidi Ballet in Community of Parting, 2020

“A Parting Ways While Being With. Critical Investigations and Acts of Assembling in Jane Jin Kaisen’s Practice” by Anne Kølbæk Iversen in Community of Parting, 2020

“Re-membering Absence: Memory, Trauma and Spectral Imagination in Jane Jin Kaisen’s Artworks” by Yongwoo Lee in Community of Parting, 2020

Jane Jin Kaisen’s Strange Meetings. The Epidermal Memory of the STD Control over Korean Camp Town Sex Workers by Soyi Kim in Community of Parting, 2020

”Border as Space, Diaspora as Community: Folded Body and Polyphonic Voice of the Bari-Film” by HyeYoung Cho in History Has Failed Us, but No Matter, The Korean Pavilion 58th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Mousse Publishing, 2019

”Unfaithful Returns: Reiterations of Dissent, U.S.-Korean Militarized Debt, and the Architecture of Violent Freedom” by Crystal Mun-hye Baik, Journal of Asian American Studies, Volume 18, No. 1, February 2015

”Artistic Research as Critique in Jane Jin Kaisen’s Loving Belinda” by Marianne Ping Huang in Loving Belinda, 2015

”Framing the Migrant Body” by Louise Wolthers in Loving Belinda, Forlaget *[asterisk], 2015

”Voices and Narratives Opening up a Site of Contestation” by Yasuko Ikeuchi in Dissident Translations, Aarhus Kunstbygnings Forlag, 2011