Introducing our new Creative Associate Hwa Young Jung

We are pleased to announce socially engaged artist Hwa Young Jung as a Creative Associate – a programme bringing together artists, technologists, researchers & activists to explore new perspectives and ideas with Abandon Normal Devices. The Creative Associates programme is an experimental, reciprocal relationship between creative practitioners and AND – exploring how collaboration can shape how we work together long term. Through this collaboration, AND has been learning from Hwa Young’s socially engaged practise, utilising this opportunity to better support our engagement projects.

AND has supported Hwa Young on the first stages of her long term project Wild Natures, giving financial support and time for the project to develop across the last 3 years. Wild Natures is a long-term international collaboration intersecting the climate crisis and migration. Hwa Young is currently seeking collaborators to be part of Wild Natures – bridging two continents, seeking to illuminate the shared human and animal need to find a place to call home, paying particular attention to the migrant experience. If you are an expert or have lived experience in any or all of the below find out how to participate on Hwa Young’s website.

About Hwa Young
Hwa Young Jung is a socially engaged artist working in the arts, culture and sciences, facilitating collaborative projects and workshops. She works with people to co-create projects, often using games and play to explore social issues. Based in the Northwest of England, she has been producing work internationally with a range of people including care workers, microbiologists, young people excluded from mainstream education, men on probation and criminologists for almost ten years.

She has worked with Universities (Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool John Moores, Manchester Metropolitan) and cultural institutions (Tate Liverpool, FACT Liverpool, Metal Culture) to create a mixing ground for diverse disciplines and divergent communities to come together and make something new.

Find out more about Wild Natures.