Myung-Sun Kim is an artist, and a curator. Her work explores questions of belonging, inheritance, silenced histories, foodways, kinship, queerness, rituals and lineage. She has presented her work across North America and in Finland, including Art Gallery of Ontario, MOCA Toronto, FADO Performance Art Centre, and Plug In ICA. As a curator, she has led curatorial programming at galleries and festivals including Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival, Inside Out Film Festival, The Theatre Centre, the Toronto Biennial of Art as the Co-Curator of Public Programming & Learning, and at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre (2022) as a guest curator.

Rituals for Belonging’ is an ongoing socially-engaged work where Myung-Sun Kim and invited artists within her community exchange an art object with rituals to accompany the objects. These rituals offer possible cultural inheritances to put forward into the future, carrying our ways of expressing and embodying compassion for one another. The rituals include a meditation, a recipe, affirmations, a call to action, and other forms of instructions to elicit the act of belonging or the possibility of remediation of the body, the mind, and the healing of our connective relations. These rituals are offered to visitors where they can reinterpret and respond to the rituals’ call for belonging and care. The vessels function similar to an heirloom of kinship and as a container for time and space to hold conversations and human connections towards belonging. The intention is to build a large library of rituals that is open-sourced online and to be activated in the future through programming.

• Lillian Allen, Artist Contributor
• Justine Chambers, Artist Contributor
• Jody Chan, Artist Contributor
• Snack Witch Joni Cheung, Artist Contributor
• Erika DeFreitas, Artist Contributor
• Sameer Farooq, Artist Contributor
• Ness Lee, Artist Contributor
• Simone Schmidt, Artist Contributor
• Jill Thorp-Shepherd, Artist Contributor

Learn more about the contributors here!

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