Flag Project

Yeesookyung, artist

born 1963

Flag Project, 2010

Where object was made: Lawrence, Kansas, United States

Material/technique: screen print

Dimensions:
Object Length/Width/Depth (Length x Width x Depth): irregular shape: 955 x 900 x 10 mm
Object Length/Width/Depth (Length x Width x Depth): 35 7/16 x 37 5/8 x 0 3/8 in

Credit line: Gift of the KU Department of Visual Art, Printmaking Area

Accession number: 2010.0123

Not on display

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Brosseau Center for Learning: Six Degrees of Separation: Prints from KU and Beyond

The words printed on the banner read “Kapa Gama,” which is the Korean transliteration of “Kappa Kappa Gamma,” the name of a sorority in Lawrence, Kansas. This print belongs to a pair that conceptual artist Yeesookyung designed after encountering the sororities and fraternities in Lawrence. She invited KU students to write down words that describe such organizations and to make drawings based on these words. She then combined students’ drawings and created the flags of their imaginary sorority and fraternity. The banner format is likely inspired by her previous installation in 2006, where she created a huge chess board with flags of multicultural symbols.