Historicizing the Work of UFOlab Artist Collective Around Transnational Adoption

Resumé

In Historicizing the Work of UFOlab Artist Collective Around Transnational Adoption the artist collective UFOlab re-examines and historicizes their exhibitions, talks, events, performances, and public interventions. Through their collective art practice from 2004 to 2010 they contested and re-framed normative perceptions of racism and transnational adoption from a post- and decolonial feminist viewpoint.

UFOlab was primarily active in Denmark and South Korea, but they connected with a global network of cultural workers, activists, and researchers in a joint challenge to official narratives around transnational adoption by adoption agencies, sending and receiving countries. UFOlab has consistently worked towards adoptee rights and nuancing the discourse around transnational adoption and its complex global history tied to war, militarism, white privilege, patriarchy, and class. 

This is the only issue in Art as Forum’s print publication series Kunsten som Forum på tryk to appear in English, since the working language of Danish-Swedish-Korean UFOlab is English, which is also the shared language of its wished-for readership: the collective’s friends and peers in the circles of the Korean adopted diaspora transgressing any single national reading public.