Breakwater is a London-based Korean diaspora artists duo of Youngsook Choi and Taey Iohe. With mutual interests in counter-narratives of ancestral/indigenous knowledge and queer methodologies, Breakwater’s practice centres around the socio-politics of neo/colonialism, climate justice and migrants’ live experiences. Breakwater is the recipient of the ACE Project Grant (2020-22) for the diaspora healing project, Becoming Forest which proposes mental health as a collective responsibility and adopts a folk healing approach of engaging seasons and nature as critical healers. Following the trajectories of neo-colonial extraction, their current projects explore how trauma instigates building blocks of community-led healing, resilience and collective intelligence. In 2021, Breakwater founded the research-practice working group Decolonising Botany, which challenges the processes and methodologies around nature-bound knowledge production.

Email: build.breakwater@gmail.com 

Instagram: @build.breakwater, @taey.iohe, @young.sook.choi