Sojung Jun, I Do Nine Tailed Fox, 2025. Courtesy of the artist

Performance: I Do Nine-Tailed Fox by Sojung Jun
Sunday, November 16, 2025, 7:30-9:00 pm
Tickets: $35 Non Members, $30 Members, Discounted Seniors/Students

Part of Performa Projects 2025, I Do Nine-Tailed Fox presented by Seoul-based artist Sojung Jun, takes the shape of an opera in nine nonlinear chapters, set in a speculative future of 2075. Guided by a “sound archaeologist” who excavates and reassembles lost voices and times, the work is animated by nine musicians—pansori singer, soprano, saenghwang, North Korean gayageum, theremin, cello, percussion, dombra, and conductor—who together weave an improvised soundscape. While the performance is anchored in the Korean narrative form of pansori, which entwines song, speech, and percussion, Jun extends its sonic texture with instruments that move across and beyond Korean heritage.

Sojung Jun’s work intertwines the legacy of the Koryo-saram—ethnic Koreans forcibly deported to Central Asia under Stalin—with the myth of the nine-tailed fox, exploring themes of resilience, adaptability, and survival. Drawing on eco-feminist writings, archival materials from the Koryo Theater, and newly commissioned video featuring women artists from the theater, Jun uses AI-driven transitions to create a dialogue between past and present. The work reflects how both the Koryo-saram community and the gumiho figure endure across time, geography, and identity, revealing untold stories that persist in the margins of history.

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Members Open House and Curator-Led Exhibition Tour
Wednesday, November 19, 2025, 5-7:30 pm 
Asia Society Members Only

Join Asia Society for a Members Open House, celebrating Asia Society Museum’s latest exhibition, Busy, Busy Towns: Moving Images of a Changing Asia. Enjoy this new video presentation as well as the ongoing exhibitions at Asia Society Museum, and network with Asia Society leadership and fellow members.

Busy, Busy Towns explore how rapidly evolving cultural, political, and ecological issues have shaped urban landscapes across contemporary Asia, and in particular China, Indonesia, and Taiwan. The exhibition features seven works by Song Dong, Chen Shaoxiong, Tromarama, and Chen Chieh-jen that reflect on the regeneration of cityscapes and the subsequent impact on urban lives, initiating a renewed dialogue with the current exhibition, (Re)Generations: Rina Bannerjee, Bryon Kim, and Howardena Pindell amid the Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection.

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