Special Talk<\/span>
\nHaeyun Park<\/span>
\nTrans-Pacific Video: Intersections between Korean, Japanese, and American Art in the 1970s and 1980s<\/span><\/h2>\nDate and Time\uff1aApril 24 2018 (Tue.) 16:30-17:30
\nVenue\uff1aLecture Room 5-213, Building 5, Department of Music, Ueno Campus, Tokyo University of the Arts<\/p>\n
Speaker\uff1aHaeyun Park(The Graduate Center, City University of New York)
\nChair\uff1aYoshitaka Mori (Tokyo University of the Arts)<\/p>\n
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Abstract:
\n<\/strong>In this talk, I will present the ongoing research of my dissertation project, which examines the development of video art within a trans-Pacific framework that foregrounds the intellectual exchange of ideas and collaborations between Korean, Japanese, and American artists. Rather than viewing Korean and Japanese video art as a mere extension or a belated phenomenon of its Western counterpart, my project shifts the center of observation to East Asia, paying close attention to locally specific socio-political conditions that shaped the discourse of artistic practice in the region. Focusing on the work of the Korean artist Park Hyunki (1942-2000), the Japanese artist Yamaguchi Katsuhiro (b. 1928), and the Asian-American artists Nam June Paik (1932-2006), I will demonstrate how the geopolitics of the Cold War played a central role in the production and circulation of video art in the Asia-Pacific region. In addition, my talk will address how the artists foregrounded the agency of matter in their video practice in order to critique technological determinism and challenge the American model of modernization that was adopted by their respective countries in the postwar period.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
\nVenue\uff1aLecture Room 5-213, Building 5, Department of Music, Ueno Campus, Tokyo University of the Arts<\/p>\n
\nChair\uff1aYoshitaka Mori (Tokyo University of the Arts)<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>In this talk, I will present the ongoing research of my dissertation project, which examines the development of video art within a trans-Pacific framework that foregrounds the intellectual exchange of ideas and collaborations between Korean, Japanese, and American artists. Rather than viewing Korean and Japanese video art as a mere extension or a belated phenomenon of its Western counterpart, my project shifts the center of observation to East Asia, paying close attention to locally specific socio-political conditions that shaped the discourse of artistic practice in the region. Focusing on the work of the Korean artist Park Hyunki (1942-2000), the Japanese artist Yamaguchi Katsuhiro (b. 1928), and the Asian-American artists Nam June Paik (1932-2006), I will demonstrate how the geopolitics of the Cold War played a central role in the production and circulation of video art in the Asia-Pacific region. In addition, my talk will address how the artists foregrounded the agency of matter in their video practice in order to critique technological determinism and challenge the American model of modernization that was adopted by their respective countries in the postwar period.<\/p>\n
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