[KS] Thursday, October 24 at UC Berkeley (1970s South Korean Literature, Film, and Visual Art)

Mon Oct 21 12:17:14 EDT 2013

*The Center for Korean Studies*

*University of California, Berkeley*

*Cordially invites you to the following colloquium*

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Panel on 1970s South Korean Literature, Film, and State-sponsored Visual Art

Panel Discussion: Center for Korean Studies | *October 24 | 4 p.m.* | *Berkeley
YWCA Main Lounge (2600 Bancroft Way)*

Panelist/Discussants: *Youngju
Ryu*<http://www.lsa.umich.edu/asian/aboutus/faculty/ryuyoungju_ci>,
Assistant Professor of Modern Korean Literature, University of
Michigan<http://www.lsa.umich.edu/asian/aboutus/faculty/ryuyoungju_ci>
; *Ji Sung Kim* <http://fm.berkeley.edu/ji-sung-kim/>, Department of Film &
Media, UC Berkeley; *Yuri
Chang*<http://www2.binghamton.edu/art-history/graduate/grad-students.html>
, Department of Art History, Binghamton
University<http://www2.binghamton.edu/art-history/graduate/grad-students.html>

Moderator: *Elaine
Kim*<http://ethnicstudies.berkeley.edu/faculty/profile.php?person=8>,
Professor, Department of Ethnic Studies, UC
Berkeley<http://ethnicstudies.berkeley.edu/faculty/profile.php?person=8>

Sponsors: UC Berkeley Ethnic Studies
<http://ethnicstudies.berkeley.edu/>, Center
for Korean Studies (CKS) <http://ieas.berkeley.edu/cks/>

Literature: In 1970s South Korea, poet Kim Chi Ha became an international
symbol of democracy when he challenged – in writing, in prison, and on
trial – the legtimacy of the military dictatorship. Last year, Kim returned
to center stage as a staunch ally of the dictator’s daughter and a
mouthpiece of the ultraconservatives who supported her election as South
Korea’s president. This talk will explore the changing place of committed
literature in the ongoing struggle over the meanings of South Korean
modernization.

Film: South Korea has often been touted as the quintessential demonstration
of the superiority of free market capitalism for ‘developing’ the Global
South. This talk explores the experience of neoliberalism from the vantage
point of post-IMF South Korean cinema. In films like ‘The Host,’ for
instance, the monster can be seen in relation to U.S. empire-building in
South Korea, which has served as a ‘host’ for the American military for
almost seven decades.

Visual Art: This presentation explores the politics of representation of
power and memory in public space by examining cultural exhibitions – in
particular the monumental art projects sponsored by the South Korean
government for the 1988 Seoul Olympics and the 1995 Gwangju Biennale - as
attempts to manipulate traumatic historical memory with a spectacle of
capitalist success.

Event Contact: cks at berkeley.edu, 510-642-5674

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*And other upcoming events…*

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*Artist as Producer and Kitsch: The Ethnographic Turn and the Colonial
Collection*

Colloquium: Center for Korean Studies: Institute of East Asian Studies |
October 25 | 4 p.m. |  Institute of East Asian Studies (2223 Fulton, 6th
Floor) <http://www.berkeley.edu/map/3dmap/3dmap.shtml?b2223>

Speaker: *Nayoung Aimee
Kwon*<http://asianmideast.duke.edu/people?Gurl=/aas/AMES&Uil=na.kwon&subpage=profile>,
Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Korean and Japanese Cultural
Studies, Duke University<http://asianmideast.duke.edu/people?Gurl=/aas/AMES&Uil=na.kwon&subpage=profile>

Sponsors: Institute of East Asian Studies (IEAS) <http://ieas.berkeley.edu/>
, Center for Korean Studies (CKS) <http://ieas.berkeley.edu/cks/>

In the 1930s, with Japan’s expansions into the Asian continent, colonial
Korean culture in general, and literature in particular, came to take
important roles as both subject and object of such imperial expansions.
This paper reexamines the colonizer and colonized binary by
re-contextualizing the rise of translated texts packaged as ethnographic
“colonial collections.” In particular, this paper historicizes the
ethnographic turn relegated to colonial culture by examining the rise of
colonial collections as a manifestation of mass-produced objects of
colonial kitsch at this time. The complex position of the colonial
artist/writer cum (self-)ethnographer situated in between the colony and
the metropole embodies an uncanny contact zone as the artist and work of
art become reified as objects of imperial consumer fetishism. In the
colonial encounter, the artist as producer and the art object of his or her
labor meld into indistinguishable and interchangeable forms, as producer
and product of kitsch. In such relations of colonial alienation, cultural
producers struggled to map out spaces as agents of artistic expression,
while agency for the colonized artist often meant further alienation
through self-ethnography or through mimicry of the colonizer’s racialized
forms and discourses.

Nayoung Aimee Kwon is Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Asian &
Middle Eastern Studies, Arts of the Moving Image and Women’s Studies at
Duke University. Her research considers colonialism and postcolonial
legacies in the Asia-Pacific, focusing on Korea and Japan in the global
context. Her book, Disavowed Intimacies: The Conundrum of Modernity and
Collaboration in Korea and Japan (forthcoming from Duke University Press),
examines controversial encounters of Japanese and Korean writers and
translators in the Japanese empire and their postcolonial legacies. She has
also co-edited (with Takashi Fujitani) a special issue of the journal Cross
Currents (May 2013) on the antinomies of the colonial film archive in East
Asia.

Event Contact: cks at berkeley.edu, 510-642-5674

Event Contact: cks at berkeley.edu, 510-642-5674

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