Roger Kim Imagination Fund Application — puri [풀이] zine

Artist statement

puri [풀이] zine is a zine series created by Roger Kim with the mission of dismantling of colonialism, labor exploitation, racism, and genocide through the lens Korean history modern, ancient, domestic, and diasporic. The zine is the product of the meeting of meticulously referenced research and interviews with members of the Korean diaspora as a way to connect personal and familial trauma with the traumatic events of world history. The zine is published both as a physical printed booklet and online in pdf form. The pdf versions are available to download for free. For the Imagination Fund, puri [풀이] zine proposes to create an interactive web-based version of the historical timelines and associated articles from the first and second and any future issues of the zine.