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A Lecture by Vicki Sung-Yeon Kwon, PhD, Associate Curator of Korean Art and Culture, Royal Ontario Museum and Assistant Professor (status-only), Art History, University of Toronto
Co-sponsored by the Departments of Art History and Asian Societies, Cultures, and Languages, please join us for a talk by Vicki Sung-Yeon Kwon, PhD, Assciate Curator of Korean Art and Culture, Royal Ontario Museum and Assistant Professor (status-only), Art History, University of Toronto.
Since "Feminism Reboot," the new-wave feminism that emerged in 2015 in South Korea (hereafter Korea) as a countermovement to misogyny and sexual violence against women and minorities both online and off-line, a series of activities have led to calls for rebooting feminist art history. As an initiative of this call, this talk explores Korean artist projects created from the 2000s to the early 2020s that articulate critical discourses on distorted conceptions and layered meanings of female bodies in Korean society, in relation to partriarchal nationalism, labor issues, and gender norms. This talk presents the author's two recent publications related to this topic. Art works discussed here critically engage in current discourses rising from patriarchal and hierarchal social system and offer creative presentations of the women's issues related to patriarchal nationalism, labor issues, and gender norms through feminist perspectives.
February 18th - 4:30pm - 201F Carpenter Hall
Events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.