Spring 2024 seminar: Ph.D. candidate, performing and media arts
Paige Chung is a writer and DJ. She is interested in a DJ's use of turntablism to uplift and unite communities. Their project analyzes hip-hop's entanglements with Blackness as a fixed ontological categorical position listening to Triple Edge and Rap Việt. They are writing an article about DJ corporeality, a play about a Vietnamese family during the pandemic, and a book based on Princess Nokia's 1992 album. Born and raised in Los Angeles, but she rolls everywhere. She currently trains at the Beat Junkie Institute of Sound and studies Performing and Media Arts at Cornell. For more: djxmiu.com.