Monday, February 13 05:30pm
NYU Department of East Asian Studies
19 University Pl, New York, NY 10003
Chaired and Discussed: Yongwoo Lee (Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow of EAS)
Reiterations of Dissent (Film Screening)
Reiterations of Dissent illuminates the suppressed history and fragmented memories of the Jeju April Third Uprising and Massacre of 1948, which unfolded shortly before the outbreak of the Korean War on Jeju Island, South Korea. In a brutal crackdown of a local uprising, state authorities and rightist paramilitary groups, under the auspices of the United States Military Government in Korea, waged a “red hunt” that would unleash genocidal violence upon large parts of the civilian island population. The ideologically charged event was systematically silenced for five decades, and its memory remains contested to the present day.
Jane Jin Kaisen is visual artist and filmmaker. In her research-based art projects that take the form of film, video installation, performance, writing, and discursive events, she approaches contested transnational histories, entangled personal and collective memories and embodied experiences of difference. Projects such as Tracing Trades (2006), The Woman, The Orphan, and The Tiger (2010), Light and Shadow (2011), Reiterations of Dissent (2011/16), and Apertures/Specters/Rifts (2016) constitute a multi-faceted inquiry into the effects of coloniality, war, militarism, and migration, often from a gendered and diasporic lens.
Free admission! http://eas.as.nyu.edu