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Vulnerability Cafe

A Vulnerability café is a café that provides a virtual space where the visitors can discuss their narratives that relate to vulnerability. The cafe was created in February 2019 by Yujin Oh, an MFA student in New Media in the School of Visual Arts at the Pennsylvania State University. The cafe is open to the public at free of charge. The cafe has two main features: Inputs and Outputs. In input(s), the artist asks intimate questions to the visitor in the form of a survey. The anonymous survey results are used by the artist to create magazine collages. There are labels that can be found next to the collage and these labels inform the viewer which visual element was inspired by which part of the survey result. The survey has been evolving over a period of time. The survey started with four questions, "What did you eat today?", "What are your fears?", "What do you do to feel good about yourself?", "What do you do to punish yourself?". As the artist became inspired by mail art, she added a field to ask for a mailing address so that she can mail her collage-printed shirt to the participant. Currently, the survey has three versions: original, food and clothes. To help identify the participant about the collage that was made based on their response, the artist also added a field to ask for a five-digit identifier in the survey.

The artist, Yujin Oh was inspired by a number of other participatory internet art, and digital art and memoirs to create Vulnerability Cafe. The references include: Exploding Dog by Sam Brown typographic art by Eduard Fella collage works by Hannah Höch Your Voice in My Head by Emma Forrest Lighter Than My Shadow by Katie Green