최 Misty 은주 Choi
Los Angeles, US (2023-current)
- (feeling) Under, 2025-ongoing
- CuppyBreak: Cup & Drink, 2024
- CuppyBreak: Cups, 2023-ongoing
- Hire Me Under the Table (coming)
- Road Signs (coming)
- Store (coming)
Seoul, KR (2021-2023)
- CuppyCafe, 2023
- Street Push Cart Project, 2022
- Prototype for How to Build a House, 2022
- Species of Spaces, 2022
Brooklyn, US (2019-2021)
- The In-Betweens, 2020-2021
- Void As Matter, 2021
- Bracket { }, 2021
- Space As Heavy As My Body, 2019
Chicago, US (2014-2019)
- The Coffee I Drink Everyday Is Different But the Cigarette That the Man Smokes Is the Same, 2018-2021
- Exit To/From, 2019
- Air as Experience of a Dimension of Space, 2018
London, UK (2016-2017)
- untitled space, 2016
- architectural drawings, 2017
Cup & Drink,
2024, interactive installation and performanceWith CuppyBreak, I design and sculpt a growing collection of unique cups meant to be experienced as a combination of installation and performance, where participants' experiences vary based on their answers to personal questions.
This past February, I transformed my studio into a makeshift cafe and asked visitors to answer either of the following questions:
“How do you deal with your broken relationships?” or “What is your social tool?”
Visitors would then be served coffee or tea in a unique cup based on their answer, and we would have a conversation about their response. The possibilities of cups ranged from those that were functional (yet misshapen), connected, incomplete, cracked, broken, or dysfunctional. The frustration or disappointment of being served a cup that risked spilling and making a mess soon turned into excitement, laughter, and vulnerability.