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SUMMARY:Korean modern art exhibit upcoming at MIA
DESCRIPTION:The Minneapolis Institute of Art (MIA) announced today a new exhibition of contemporary Korean art to be exhibited at the museum’s Target Galleries March 23 through June 23. The exhibit is entitled The Shape of Time: Korean Art after 1989\, and organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art. \nTickets are $20\, with additional discounts for MIA members. \nUsing a variety of mediums\, including ceramics\, painting\, fiber\, photography\, lacquer\, installation\, metalwork\, mixed media\, embroidery\, and video\, these artists explore themes like conformity\, displacement\, gender and sexuality\, coexistence\, dissonance\, that together offer a deeper understanding of South Korea\, and its history and culture. \n One of the continuing themes\, dissonance\, is in some of the artists’ reflections on South Korea’s past and present\, the foundations of Korean society\, and the paradoxes of a divided Korea. Dissonance is shown in works such as Hayoun Kwon’s video 489 years (2016). The viewer occupies the role of a soldier on a day-long patrol of the demilitarized zone (DMZ)\, a strip of land separating North and South Korea along the 38th parallel. The work’s title\, 489 Years\, references the number of years experts think it would take to clear the one million mines within the boundary between the two Koreas. The video depicts a lush\, green area filled with wildlife\, with the destructive potential of the area hidden. \n The theme of reinvention is reflected in some of the artists’ use of traditional art forms\, with ancient aesthetics combined with contemporary sensibility. For example\, Suki Seokyeong Kang’s vibrantly woven mats are inspired by a handcrafted straw mat tradition dating back to the Goryeo Dynasty (918–1392). \nArtists also reflect the theme of coexistence\, and imbue Korean values with new meaning. Eui-jeong Yoo’s Treasures of Daily Life (2018) expresses this fusion of ideas in his series of recognizable corporate logos for companies such as McDonald’s\, Louis Vuitton\, and Hello Kitty. \nThe theme of “being seen\,” challenging patriarchal power structures and cultural standards\, is expressed through works depicting experiences that are frequently marginalized\, silenced\, or erased in popular culture. An Attack by Green Horns\, by Sang-hee Yun\, is a pair of lacquered and gold dagger-like spikes worn on the front torso and back shoulder. Yun created these spikes to express a sense of protection for the wearer. \n The works in the section on “portraying anxiety” raise questions about group participation and larger societal challenges in Korea and elsewhere. In the video Let’s Do National Gymnastics\, Jaewoo Oh fuses nostalgia and the impact of a culture of conformity by portraying a compulsory exercise program for students\, used in Korean public  schools between 1977 and 1999. \nWorks from MIA’s permanent collection will be added to the exhibition in Minneapolis\, including Do Ho Suh’s Some/One\, a 2005 sculpture based on a coat of traditional armor. Composed from thousands of polished military dog tags\, the work juxtaposes the collective (represented by the armored sculpture) with the individual (symbolized by the dog tags\, each representing a single soldier). Also featured is a selection from Byron Kim’s ongoing Synecdoche portraiture project\, currently comprised of more than 400 panels\, each approximating the skin color of a person Kim has met. \n 
URL:https://www.koreanquarterly.org/event/korean-modern-art-exhibit-upcoming-at-mia/
LOCATION:Minneapolis Institute of Arts\, 2400 3rd Ave. S.\, Minneapolis\, 55404\, United States
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SUMMARY:Mu Films and Me & Korea to host Koreans and Camptowns conference
DESCRIPTION:A conference entitled Korean Adoption and Its Global Legacies: 70 Years and Beyond will be held at Northwestern University\, in Evanston\, Illinois\, April 13–14. The Korean adoptee service organization Me & Korea will co-sponsor the conference\, along with Northwestern University and Mu Films\, a documentary film company established by Deann Borshay Liem\, a Korean adoptee. \nThe goal of the conference is to bring adoptees\, first families\, journalists and scholars together to discuss the origins of Korean adoption and its impact on families and individuals\, including discussion of birth family search and reunion. The event is in honor of the late Korean adoption researcher Sue-Je Lee Gage. \nThe conference is intended to provide perspectives that challenge and expand participants’ understanding of adoption’s beginnings in the context of war and militarism\, while exploring present-day consequences of South Korea’s adoption practices on adopted Koreans and their first families. \nA gathering of alumni of Me & Korea’s many adoptee tours to Korea will be held on the evening of April 12\, more details to be released closer to the date. \nThe keynote address will be by Yuri Doolan\, assistant professor of history and sexuality studies at Brandeis University. He will discuss his new book\, The First Amerasians: Mixed Race Koreans From Camptowns to America which relates how the concept of the Amerasian was used to remove thousands of mixed-race children from their Korean mothers in U.S.-occupied South Korea to adoptive American homes during the 1950s and ‘60s. \nSpeakers scheduled for this conference include Kori Graves\, Associate Professor of History\, University at Albany\, State University of New York (SUNY) will discuss her book A War Born Family: African American Adoption in the Wake of the Korean War. This talk will describe how during and immediately after the Korean War African American soldiers in Korea and African Americans in the states learned about and then endeavored to adopt Korean children and the ways their efforts fit in the larger history of Korean transnational adoption. \nCatherine H. Nguyen\, who teaches Asian literature at Emerson College will discuss themes of her work-in-progress book Children Born of War\, Adoptees Made by War\, about Vietnamese mixed-race children who were transnationally adopted during and after the Vietnam War. Patti Duncan\, a professor from Oregon State University will discuss how war and militarism in South Korea affected her as a mixed-race Korean American woman. \nVeteran Korean photographer and journalist\, Yongnam Lee\, will present his career-spanning work which documents the people living and working in U.S. military camptowns near the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). Through his photography and videography\, Lee will discuss the Korean women who worked in “comfort stations” for American troops\, and the lawsuit they brought that led to a South Korean Supreme Court victory in 2022. \nThe Sunday panels will focus on the long arc of Korean adoption and its impacts through the lens of birth family search. \nThe conference registration is free\, with the option to purchase lunch and dinner in advance. For more details\, and to register\, visit https://kadconference2024.eventbrite.com/\n \nFor further information or questions\, email:  co********@********ea.org 
URL:https://www.koreanquarterly.org/event/mu-films-and-me-korea-to-host-koreans-and-camptowns-conference/
LOCATION:Northwestern University\, 633 Clark Street\, Evanston\, IL\, 60208\, United States
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