Chanyoung Park, M.A.
Chanyoung Park is a research assistant at the Institute of Art History and the coordinator of the specialized master’s program Art History in a Global Context. Her PhD dissertation examines the ways in which contemporary diasporic art practitioners re-mediate and subvert experiences of miscommunication, misjudgment and inarticulation into a space of dialogue, intimacy, and creative expression; it also seeks to stretch the disciplinary boundaries of art history by reading these art practices at the intersection of diaspora aesthetics, disability studies, and accent studies. She completed her master’s degree in Art History in a Global Context at the University of Zurich and received her bachelor’s degree in Art and Archaeology at Princeton University.
Publications (Peer-Reviewed)
"Hijacking Academic Futures,” in: Hijacked Futures, eds. Laura Bohnenblust, Thomas Moser, and Barbara Reisinger, 2026, forthcoming (in preparation).
“Emotional Racialized Encounter,” in: Antirassistische Kunstgeschichte, eds. CARAH – Collective for Anti-Racist Art History, kritische berichte – Zeitschrift für Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaft, vol. 55, no. 4, 2025, forthcoming.
Presentations
“Mobilizing Concepts, Arriving at a Positionality,” Workshop Concepts of the Conceptual: Artistic Practices and Frames of Historiography, University of Fribourg, June 3, 2025.
“Sites of Artistic Encounter,” XXI. Swiss Colloquium for Young Art Historians, University of Neuchâtel, April 10, 2025.
Teaching
- MA Seminar "Crip Theory, Crip Aesthetics, Crip Method," University of Zurich, Spring 2026 (9 ECTS)
- MA Seminar "Words: Critical Concepts for Art History in a Global Context," University of Zurich, Spring 2025 (9 ECTS)
- MA Excursion "Paris and the Global: Between Conquest, Collecting and Commerce," University of Zurich, Spring 2025 (9 ECTS) - Co-taught with Prof. Dr. Tristan Weddigen and Dr. Marica Antonucci