This transitional work features Yoon as a black-clad figure evocative of Hollywood ninjas or Viet Cong prowling through bamboo groves in Pioneer Park, Kamloops BC. These works were created in response to the 50th anniversary of the Korean War armistice, and explored how intergenerational histories of war are carried in the body. As such, the work operates on multiple levels. Firstly, it identifies the stereotypes imposed on Asian-Canadians and Asian Americans through popular culture, and explores how Asian subjects are constituted through one-dimensional portrayals in the media. Secondly, the work evokes the histories of war carried by Asian bodies and memories across oceans and continents before resettlement in Canada. Finally, put in relation to other histories of war and colonialism in the context of immigration to Canada, Unbidden speaks to the bodies unbidden to this land in order to evoke the power of solidarity and multidirectional memory.

- Ming Tiampo