Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

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Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
Hangeul 차학경

Theresa Hak Kyung Cha ( 차학경 ) (born March 4, 1951 in Busan , † November 5, 1982 in New York City ) is a Korean-American author , installation and performance artist . Her book Dictée , published in 1982 shortly before her death, is considered to be groundbreaking for the postcolonial avant-garde.

Life

Theresa Hak Kyung Cha grew up in Korea until she was 12 years old. In 1963 her family emigrated from Busan to the United States, where they settled in San Francisco in 1964 . Theresa Hak Kyung Cha attended the University of California at Berkley from 1969 , where she experienced the time of student protests against the Vietnam War . In the following years she spent some time in Europe, where she studied in France with Christian Metz , Raymond Bellour and Thierry Kuntzel, among others . In 1980 she moved to New York, where she worked in the design department of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and for Tanam Press, and married in 1982. A short time later, she was raped and murdered by an employee of the security service of the Puck Building, in which her husband documented the renovation as a photographer.

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Theresa Hak Kyung Cha was productive in many fields of the arts. In addition to film, video and slide installations and performances, she created ceramic art and sculptures. In the overarching area between visual arts and literature, her work can be classified in the categories Concrete Poetry and Mail Art as well as art books.

The central theme of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's art is uprooting or loss. With her art she researched memory and communication processes as well as psychological change processes. She incorporated influences from different cultures into her work and created reference networks. An important sphere of influence is the Korean culture of her childhood and adolescence with the two belief systems Confucianism and Catholicism . Influences of French symbolism handed down through Korean avant-garde poetry also play a role in her art. Theresa Hak Kyung Cha also worked intensively on texts by Roland Barthes , Jacques Derrida and Jacques Lacan and incorporated their theories into her work. In her late work, the psychological theories of AR Lurias in particular can be demonstrated as an influence. Works by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha are exhibited at the Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive , the Artists Space in New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Bronx Museum of Art , among others . Her work is also assigned to feminist art .

Publications

Awards

Exhibitions

  • 2001 retrospective: The Dream of the Audience: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (1951-1982) . Compiled with the assistance of the University of California and the Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive. Traveling exhibition that was shown in five cities.

literature

  • Sabine Breitwieser (Ed.): The audience's dream: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha. = The dream of the audience. König, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-88375-819-1 .
  • Constance M. Lewallen: The Dream of the Audience. Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (1951-1982). With essays by Lawrence R. Rinder and Trinh T. Minh-ha . University of California Press et al., Berkley CA et al. 2001, ISBN 0-520-23287-9 .
  • Elaine H. Kim, Norma Alarcón (Eds.): Writing Self, Writing Nation. A Collection of Essays on Dictée by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha. Third Woman Press, Berkeley CA 1994, ISBN 0-943219-11-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ readings. Poetry Cabinet , accessed May 1, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Amei Wallach: Theresa Cha: In Death, Lost And Found. The New York Times , April 20, 2003, accessed May 1, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Lawrence Rinder: artist. theresahakkyungcha.com, accessed May 1, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Hak Kyung Cha, Theresa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cha, Theresa Hak Kyung
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Korean-American author, installation and performance artist
DATE OF BIRTH March 4th 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Busan
DATE OF DEATH 5th November 1982
Place of death New York City