To Our Grandmothers

Event Date: September 6-7, 2025 3PM

To Our Grandmothers is an interactive, durational performance art piece that aims to commemorate the lived experiences of "Comfort Women" by intersecting art-making, community, and intergenerational and transnational empathy. Centering the piece's inspiration around the Statue of Peace, known as the Sonyeosang (소녀상) in Korean, To Our Grandmothers invites guests to participate in their own performance practice of remembrance through hope letter-writing and sitting in solidarity next to the piece's Sonyeosang, represented and performed by Emily Lim.

To Our Grandmothers is a performance demonstration of personal-turned-communal legacy-building, honoring, and remembering of the "Comfort Women," their relentless fight for justice, and our commitment to their justice.

CONTENT ADVISORY

To Our Grandmothers engages with topics of sexual slavery and violence.

VIDEOGRAPHY ADVISORY

This piece will be recorded and photographed periodically for archival purposes. Please inform all members of your party about this possibility.

LOCATION

Dial 012 on the call box to enter the building, and you will be buzzed in! Go to the stairs or the front elevator to the 2nd door, and the studio will be located at the last door on the right.

ACCESSIBILITY

If you use a wheelchair, please contact emilylim@stanford.edu ahead of your arrival, so you can be directed up to the studio in the freight elevator. For additional accessibility needs, please also contact emilylim@stanford.edu.

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