Student Brett Childs selected to exhibit work for 'Make' in South Korea

Brett Childs (BFA ‘20) and Photo faculty Ken Marchionno will represent ArtCenter College of Design in an exhibition hosted by Chung-Ang University. The exhibition titled Make will take place in October in Seoul, South Korea.

Make is an exhibition displaying the result of a collaborative project between a group of established artists, who also work as art educators at five leading international art educational institutions, and distinguished students from the institutions where they teach.

Colleges and universities across the globe were invited to form faculty-student teams to collaborate in producing an artwork as an experimental education model.

Brett Childs

Over the summer/fall break, Brett and Ken worked together to produce a photography and video installation focused on attacks on privacy in contemporary culture. The piece Mary Bradbury (images above) is ostensibly a highly conceptualized fashion shoot about surveillance, but is heavily layered with criticality, unearthing issues of power, class, race, and gender, and confronts audience complicity in looking.

Essays about the experiment and images from the projects will be gathered in an anthology to be published later this year.

Other participating schools include: Baptist University, HKBU, Hong Kong; Chung-Ang University, Seoul; Parsons, New York; Zurich University of the Arts, Zurich.

The show opens Tuesday, October 1st and will run until Saturday October 12th at Platform-L Contemporary Art Center in Seoul.