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<span><font size="4"><br></font></span></h3></div><font color="#000000">Tansaekhwa and the Case for Abstraction in Postwar Korea</font></font></span></h3><p style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><font face="times new roman, serif"><font color="#000000">Colloquium: Center for Korean Studies | <b>September 6 | 4 p.m.</b> | </font><a href="http://www.berkeley.edu/map/3dmap/3dmap.shtml?b2223" style="color:rgb(3,149,156);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Institute of East Asian Studies (2223 Fulton, 6th Floor)</a></font></p>
<p style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(77,89,99)"><font face="times new roman, serif"><br></font></p><p style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(77,89,99)"><font face="times new roman, serif"><label>Speaker: </label><a href="http://www.lsa.umich.edu/histart/people/faculty/ci.keejoan_ci.detail" style="color:rgb(3,149,156);text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><strong>Joan Kee</strong></a>, Assistant Professor, History of Art, <a href="http://www.lsa.umich.edu/histart/people/faculty/ci.keejoan_ci.detail" style="color:rgb(3,149,156);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">University of Michigan</a></font></p>
<p style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(77,89,99)"><font face="times new roman, serif"><label>Sponsor: </label><a href="http://ieas.berkeley.edu/cks/" style="color:rgb(3,149,156);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Center for Korean Studies (CKS)</a></font></p>
<p style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(77,89,99)"><font face="times new roman, serif"><br></font></p><p style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><font color="#000000" face="times new roman, serif">Starting in the mid-1960s, a group of Korean artists began to push paint, soak canvas, drag pencils, rip paper, and otherwise manipulate the materials of painting in ways that prompted critics to describe their actions as “methods” rather than artworks. Later known as Tansaekhwa, or Korean monochrome painting, this loose constellation of works became the international face of contemporary Korean art and a basis for what later came to be known as contemporary Asian art. Yet Tansaekhwa's significance also lay in how its constituent artists offered another response to abstraction. Artists like Park Seobo, Ha Chonghyun, Kwon Young-woo and Lee Ufan considered the possibilities of ink painting as extrapolated from its limitations, as well as questions of process that challenged the frontality of painting. This talk introduces Tansaekhwa and how some of its representative works made a case for abstraction as a way for viewers to engage productively with the world and its systems.</font></p>
<p style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(77,89,99)"><font size="4" face="times new roman, serif"><br></font></p><p style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(77,89,99)"><font size="4" face="times new roman, serif">______________________________________</font></p>
<p style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(77,89,99)"><font size="4" face="times new roman, serif"><br></font></p><p style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><font color="#000000" size="4" face="times new roman, serif"><i><b>And other upcoming events...</b></i></font></p>
<p style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(77,89,99)"><font size="4" face="times new roman, serif"><br></font></p><h3 style="display:inline;padding:0px;margin:0px"><span><font color="#000000" size="4" face="times new roman, serif">The Master Who Mistook Himself for a Monster: History as Artifice in Park Chan-wook's Oldboy</font></span></h3>
<p style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><font face="times new roman, serif"><font color="#000000">Colloquium: Center for Korean Studies | <b>September 16 | 4 p.m.</b> |</font><font color="#4d5963"> </font><a href="http://www.berkeley.edu/map/3dmap/3dmap.shtml?b2223" style="color:rgb(3,149,156);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Institute of East Asian Studies (2223 Fulton, 6th Floor)</a></font></p>
<p style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(77,89,99)"><font face="times new roman, serif"><br></font></p><p style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><font face="times new roman, serif"><label><font color="#000000">Speaker:</font><font color="#4d5963"> </font></label><a href="http://www4.uwm.edu/letsci/ficl/faculty/paik.cfm" style="color:rgb(3,149,156);text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><strong>Peter Paik</strong></a><font color="#4d5963">, </font><font color="#000000">Associate Professor of Comparative Literature</font><font color="#4d5963">, </font><a href="http://www4.uwm.edu/letsci/ficl/faculty/paik.cfm" style="color:rgb(3,149,156);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee</a></font></p>
<p style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(77,89,99)"><font face="times new roman, serif"><br></font></p><p style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><font color="#000000" face="times new roman, serif">Park Chan-wook's most famous film, <i>Oldboy</i>, evokes polarized responses among critics and film scholars alike. Its detractors dismiss the film as a superficial exercise in stylized violence and gratuitous imagery. Film scholars have used critical paradigms drawn from Marxism and post-structuralism to interpret the film. This talk seeks to go beyond these approaches to examine <i>Oldboy</i> as an allegory of the South Korean experience of compressed modernity. It argues that the rapid development of South Korea has enabled historical types to flourish that have become unfamiliar in the affluent societies of the West, in particular the figure of the master who can conquer his desires and overcome his fear of death. <br>
<br>Drawing on the theoretical work of Nietzsche, Alexandre Kojéve, and Alexis de Tocqueville, this talk explores the question of what it means to create and portray such a human type once a democratic consumer society has emerged and closed off the possibility for any kind of authentic difference, especially the aristocratic values that have to do with the capacity to rise above oneself, one's physical appetites, and materialistic desires.</font></p>
<p style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><font color="#000000" face="times new roman, serif"><br></font></p><p style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><font face="times new roman, serif"><label><font color="#000000">Event Contact:</font><font color="#4d5963"> </font></label><a href="mailto:cks@berkeley.edu" style="color:rgb(3,149,156);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">cks@berkeley.edu</a><font color="#4d5963">, </font><font color="#000000">510-642-5674</font></font></p>
<p style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(77,89,99)"><font size="4" face="times new roman, serif"><br></font></p><p style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(77,89,99)"><font size="4" face="times new roman, serif">_______________________________________</font></p>
<p style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(77,89,99)"><font size="4" face="times new roman, serif"><br></font></p><p style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><font size="4" color="#000000" face="times new roman, serif"><i><b>And other related events in the Bay Area...</b></i></font></p>
<p><font face="times new roman, serif" size="4"><b>Outside Looking In:</b> </font><b style="font-family:'times new roman',serif;font-size:large">Everyday Life in North Korea</b></p><p><font face="times new roman, serif"><b>Buy Tickets Online at <a href="http://AsiaSociety.org/ASNC/events" target="_blank">AsiaSociety.org/ASNC/events</a></b></font></p>
<p><font face="times new roman, serif"><b>Tuesday, September 17, 2013 •
6:00 PM </b></font></p><p><font face="times new roman, serif"><b>5:30 – 6:00 p.m.
Registration </b></font></p><p><font face="times new roman, serif"><b>6:00 – 7:30 p.m.
Discussion/Audience Q&A </b></font></p><p><font face="times new roman, serif"><b>7:30 – 8:00 p.m. Reception</b></font></p><p><font face="times new roman, serif"><b>Location: Asia Society,
Bechtel Conference Room, 500 Washington Street, S.F. </b></font></p><p><font face="times new roman, serif">The North Korean people have
endured poverty, malnutrition and famine, and gross human rights violations,
including forced labor camps, public executions, and political repression. But
our understanding of everyday life in North Korea and how it is changing is
extremely limited. Most of the country is off limits to foreigners, and what
coverage there is in Western media is heavily focused on the vagaries of the
regime’s ruling Kim dynasty and its nuclear weapons program.</font></p><p><font face="times new roman, serif">Join ASNC as we look into what
life is really like inside North Korea. What are work, school, and family-life
like for its 24.5 million citizens? How have social and human rights conditions
changed under Kim Jong-un’s reign? Who are the tens of thousands of North
Korean defectors and what is life like for them today in other countries? For
those who remain, is international aid reaching those who need it most? </font></p><p><font face="times new roman, serif"><b>Speakers: </b></font></p><p><font face="times new roman, serif"><b>Sunghee Jo</b>, defector living in the U.S. since 2008; Founder,
North Korean Refugees in the United States (NKUS) </font></p><p><font face="times new roman, serif"><b>Sandra Fahy, </b>Professor of Anthropology and North Korea expert,
Sophia University (Tokyo) </font></p><p><font face="times new roman, serif"><b>Blaine Harden, </b>Author, <i>Escape from Camp 14; </i>Former
correspondent, <i>Washington Post </i></font></p><p><font face="times new roman, serif"><b>Philip Yun </b>(moderator), Executive Director, Ploughshares Fund</font></p><p style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(77,89,99)">
</p><p><span style="line-height:115%"><font face="times new roman, serif">Co-Sponsored
by the Center for Korean Studies, UC Berkeley; Institute for East Asian
Studies, UC Berkeley</font></span></p>
<p style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(77,89,99)"><font size="4" face="times new roman, serif"><br></font></p><p style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><font size="1" face="times new roman, serif"><label><font color="#000000">Event Contact:</font><font color="#4d5963"> </font></label><a href="mailto:cks@berkeley.edu" style="color:rgb(3,149,156);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">cks@berkeley.edu</a><font color="#4d5963">, </font><font color="#000000">510-642-5674</font></font></p>
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