Mr. Cho stayed for tea : Entanglements (Tea, Maybe)

Entanglements (Tea, Maybe) offers kinships and friendships with propositional imaginings of our transcontinental pasts, presents and futures. Where there are national borders to cross, such as those of Canada and Korea, identities are itching to emerge, escape, to straddle, to return, to move back and over and under and across time, languages, and ways of knowing lands and people. Paul Hong, Jake Kennedy, Ivetta Sunyoung Kang, and Paola Poletto offer you tea, maybe, a gathering space to chill, play and sift through the index cards, graze and moo.

The project presents three works including a creative bookwork entitled Mr. Cho Stayed for Tea, by Paul Hong and Jake Kennedy. Inspired by the farm journals of Mary Stewart, a farmer in 1920’s Southwestern Ontario, and a single endpaper entry found within them, written in Korean by Mr. Cho, Hong and Kennedy have researched personal and historical archives to write out the remarkable life of Mr. Cho.