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"Between states: visual culture and the relationship between the two Koreas" MMU Creative Geographies research cluster event,
Thursday, 26 March, 17.15 – 18.45
Manchester School of Art (Benzie Building) room 308 - map and directions linked to from Eventbrite page.
Please register to attend on Eventbrite: http://goo.gl/JAjFWe
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Hwa Young Jung
Beccy Kennedy (MMU)
Hwa Young Jung and Beccy Kennedy are both interested in North Korean and South Korean contemporary art and visual culture and the relationship between the two. Although from different fields, they have worked together previously to examine this border crossing, when they curated the Asia Triennial Manchester 2011 exhibition: '38 Degrees of Separation: Korea, Time and Generation'. Focusing on more recent research projects around Korea, in their presentations they will - in different ways - be examining the cultural spaces which lie beyond the insular North Korea - as diasporic identity or as a tourist day trip to the Southern side of the demilitarised zone.
Imaging/Imagining the DMZ
Beccy will discuss images of the Korean Demilitarised Zone, considering what attracts artists and tourists to this dark tourist location. Drawing from a field trip and artist case studies, she will explore the ways in which artworks, touristic constructs and photographs (found via social media) capture the DMZ's seductive / imaginary quality of non-place, its precarity and its Cold War political symbolism.
Kang Chun Hyuk: one artist's journey.
Hwa Young will present the landscape of North Korean defector art through one artist’s progress. Kang Chun Hyuk is one of the first North Korean refugees to publicly and visually document his experience of the closed county. His self-taught visual arts were displayed at the 5th International Conference in Warsaw, 2004. Currently attending Hongik University in fine art, he’s illustrated a children’s book about his childhood, exhibited in Manchester during the ATM 2011 and is about to release a hip hop album.
Dr Beccy Kennedy is Senior Lecturer in Art History and route leader for MA Contemporary Visual Culture and MA Design Cultures at Manchester School of Art. She has curated exhibitions for Asia Triennial Manchester. Her writing covers the topics of: East Asian diasporic art, biennialisation and the Korean DMZ. She is Principal Investigator for the AHRC funded network: Visualising Chinese Borders in the 21st Century.
Hwa Young is an award winning multidisciplinary designer working in the arts, cultural and sciences, facilitating collaborative workshops and projects. She's been involved in grassroots led community spaces, makers and artists in Manchester and internationally for over five years - running hackathons, exhibitions, workshops and few laser cut trophies along the way. She has run projects with Universities (MMU, Lancaster), festivals (FutureEverything, AND) and cultural institutions (Manchester Museum, Castlefield Gallery) in creating a mixing ground for diverse disciplines and divergent communities to come together and create something new.
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Dr Gavin MacDonald | Senior Lecturer, Media Theory | BA (Hons) Film & Media Studies | Manchester School of Art | Manchester Metropolitan University | Chatham Building | Cavendish St. | M15 6BR
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