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CFP: Representing and Re-imagining North Korea (AAS 2010 panel)
| Location: | Pennsylvania, United States |
| Call for Papers Date: | 2009-07-31 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2009-07-10 |
| Announcement ID: |
169565 |
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From nuclear weapons to succession issue and cyber terror, reportage on North Korea has frequently appeared on major newspapers’ front page this year. Looking through the lens of sociopolitical, legal and economical perspectives, one can demonize this extremely authoritarian regime that seems closed from the rest of the world. Often buried underneath the media’s spotlight on governmental actions, there exist, however, artistic endeavors that unravel the complexity of our exchange with North Korea—on emotional, personal, epistemic and aesthetic levels—in the forms of documentary film, blockbuster film, photography, video art, and so on. I am interested in forming a panel on “representing and re-imagining North Korea” in today’s visual and cultural production. How do cultural representations interact with and respond to the mainstream depiction of North Korea in the midst of unsuccessful diplomatic means? How do they provide a ground from which to re-interpret North Korea as a both imagined and real place in the geopolitical space of East Asia? I am seeking colleagues in art history, cultural studies, film studies, anthropology, and other disciplines whose papers may include the following objects of studies:
- Documentary films depicting Zainichi Koreans’ close ties with North Korea, such as Dear Pyongyang (2005) and Our School (2007);
- The so-called “North Korea mania” culture in Japan;
- Representation of the border between North Korea and China, such as Seoul Train (2005);
- Art exhibitions on North Korean art such as North Korean Art of Today and Tomorrow, as part of the 2000 Gwangju Biennale;
- North Korean propaganda materials such as posters and sunjeonhua;
- Contemporary artists’ works that visually re-interpret the reality of divided country (bundan hyunsil) and/or appropriate images of North Korea;
- South Korean blockbuster films, such as Joint Security Area (2000), Silmido (2003) and Taegukgi (2004), that attempt at narrativizing Korean War, Demilitarized Zone, and Cold War ideology;
- Documentaries such as Repatriation (2003); and
- Other productions that speak to the larger issues at stake.
Please send via email a 250-word paper proposal and a brief biography before July 31, 2009 to Sohl Lee (sohl.lee@gmail.com). My paper deals with contemporary South Korean artists who re-imagine the ties between the two Koreas through photography and video artworks.
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Sohl Lee
Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies
University of Rochester
USA
Email: sohl.lee@gmail.com
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