Title: “Dictee” and “Present and Absent”
Form: A handbook with Photograph, Black
and white
Author: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (1951 - 1982)
Author’s Origin/Place: United States, born Korea
CONCLUSION
心得感想(美國移民/種族/性別)
作為一位韓裔美國人的女性，她的移民背景和性別地位在1970年代是比較敏感的，作者是由於出生國韓國的內戰而被迫逃難至美國，先居住在夏威夷而後來到加州（舊金山），從她的家庭選擇落腳的地方不難看出當時美國對於種族的態度，大部分的亞裔移民第一站都會先到加州，因為這裡很可能已經有她同一血緣的移民存在；再來是她的作品創作的背景，1960和70年代在舊金山恰好是以民權運動為主的時代,作者1978年畢業於加州柏克萊大學,可見她受到當時民權運動的影響,而開始意識到自己身為一個少數族群的亞裔背景,自己的女性身分在美國所受到的對待,她的小說便擁有了這樣的特色－以女性為主角，以自己和母親為書中人物作描寫，裡面內容豐富，除了文字還有各式各樣的照片，所以很難定義這是一本書或是一本視覺藝術圖像集；以我個人而言，身為一個華裔移民的研究者，我想美國在那個充滿戰亂的時代，提供了一個避難所和民主自由樂土的概念給世界，但是等到外來的居民比如華裔或是這位韓裔女作家真的親身來到當地後，當地所存在的種族問題和性別歧視其實都成了光明背後的黑暗面，所謂的美國夢真的只是個美麗卻不真實的夢境嗎？這是我的感想並提供一個問題讓大家思考。
INTRODUCTION
作者生平Author Bio
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (1951-1982)
was a poet, filmmaker, and artist. She was born on March 4, 1951, in Pusan, at
the extreme Southern tip of Korea, where her family was seeking refuge from the
advancing North Korean and Chinese armies. To escape the repressive conditions
of military rule that were imposed following the anti-government demonstrations
of 1961, the family emigrated to America, settling briefly in Hawaii. One year
later, they moved to San Francisco. She received her B.A. and M.A. in Comparative
Literature and an MFA from the University of California, Berkeley. After
leaving university, she moved to Paris, France, where she studied filmmaking
and critical theory before returning to the Bay Area as a filmmaker and
performance artist. Cha's
interdisciplinary background is clearly evident in Dictée which experiments
with juxtaposition and hypertext of both print and visual media.
In 1982, Cha was raped and killed by security guard and
serial rapist Joey Sanza in New York City, just a few days after the original
publication of Dictée.
Following her
death, images and texts from "Dictée" were exhibited at Artists Space
in New York and her video/ film work was featured in the First Annual
International Asian Video Festival and the Anthology Film Archive. A
retrospective and symposium on Cha's work was held at Berkeley in 1990 and the
University Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive established the Theresa Hak
Kyung Cha archive in 1991. In 1993, the Whitney Museum of American Art honored
her with a retrospective exhibition.
During her brief
yet brilliant career, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha explored a variety of media,
including handmade books, video, film, sculpture, performance, and sound. Her
work is distinctive for its somber, unforgettable beauty, its innovative
treatment of texts and images, and its ongoing, rigorous exploration of the
phenomena of physical, cultural, and linguistic displacement.[1]
VISUARL ARTWORK
1. FAMOUS ARTWORK
Dictée is
the best-known work of the versatile and important Korean American artist
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha. A classic work of autobiography that transcends the
self, Dictée is the story of several women: the Korean revolutionary Yu Guan
Soon, Joan of Arc, Demeter and Persephone, Cha’s mother Hyung Soon Huo (a
Korean born in Manchuria to first-generation Korean exiles), and Cha herself.
The elements that unite these women are suffering and the transcendence of
suffering. The book is divided into nine parts structured around the Greek
Muses. Cha deploys a variety of texts, documents, images, and forms of address
and inquiry to explore issues of dislocation and the fragmentation of memory.
The result is a work of power, complexity, and enduring beauty.
This book is a curious mélange of
styles and genres, images and texts, references and histories, languages and
type fonts. Although many see it as a feminist, postcolonial, or a classic
"ethnic studies" text, "Dictée" is almost unclassifiable.
Divided into nine chapters whose chapter headings are named after the nine
Greek muses, the book is rife with historical and literary allusions,
biographical and autobiographical elements, and demands to be read on many
levels.
2. BAM展示的項目: 一張家族照
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