Tuesday, April 12 05pm to 07pm
NYU East Asian Studies
100 Washington Square East, New York, NY

Please join us for the great opportunity to see Jane Jin Kaisen’s provocative film “The Woman, The Orphan, and The Tiger”. Jane Jin Kaisen is a renowned visual artist born in South Korea and adopted to Denmark in 1980. In her research-based art projects that take the form of film, video installation, performance, writing, and discursive events, she approaches silenced histories, entangled personal and collective memories and embodied experiences of difference.

In this film, she explores ways in which trauma is passed on from previous generations to the present through a sense of being haunted. Following a group of international adoptees and other women of the Korean diaspora in their 20s and 30s, the film uncovers how the return of the repressed confronts and destabilizes narratives that have been constructed to silence histories of pain and violence inflicted onto the bodies and lives of women and children. A genealogy is created by relating the stories of three generations of women: the former ‘comfort’ women who were subjected to military sexual slavery by the Japanese military between World War I and World War II – women who have worked as sex-workers around US military bases in South Korea since the 1950s to the present – and transnational adopted women from South Korea to the West since the Korean War. By reinterpreting and juxtaposing historical archive footage with recorded documentary material and staged performative actions, multiple spaces and times are conjoined to contour how a nexus of militarism, patriarchy, racism and nationalism served to suppress and marginalize certain parts of the population and how this part of world history continues to reverberate in the present moment.

Artist talk after the film screening : Translations / Crossings / Specters

Sponsored by the Department of East Asian Studies
Chaired by Yongwoo Lee (Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow of EAS)

For more details about the film and artist visit: http://janejinkaisen.com/

Free admission. Event information and updates at: https://www.facebook.com/NYUEastAsianStudies/