Shannon Kim

Dansaekhwa: A Hidden Korean Contemporary Art

Shannon Kim

Show Notes

Hello ! :) In this video I’ll be discussing Dansaekhwa, a 70’s contemporary art method practice that was birthed from the turmoil of the Korean civil war and socioeconomic unrest. It embodies the Korean culture of endurance, sacrifice, and generational sorrow that is unique to the Korean diaspora and cannot be referenced in relation to any other. I heavily reference Joan Kee’s book: “Contemporary Korean Art: Tansaekhwa and the Urgency of Method” if you’re interested in reading!

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Headphone warning :,( there’s a strange clicking sound in my audio from my “mic” that reappears throughout that I didn’t notice until I started editing so I apologize… please bear with me. I take this as a sign that I need to actually get a mic. This video is me trying to grapple with the incredibly complex concept of how to define ownership of movement, of dance and very heavily inspired by recent events of Alysa Liu winning gold at the 2026 Milan Olympics, Martha Graham and the legalities of choreography, Kazuko Miyamoto, West African dancers, and Herbert Read (again lol), and FKA twigs REFERENCES: F.R. David Spring 2024 - Erratum - https://i-n-g-a.com/collections/all/products/f-r-david-spring-2024-erratum Artist, Authorship & Legacy: A Reader - https://www.artbook.com/9781909932456.html The Martha Graham Technique (c) 1975 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuCbs25LGh0 1938-39 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Et-M7qid2eA Rite of Spring - https://musicformartha.com/videos-list/ Embattled Garden - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtvBRzF8aDU Martha Graham performing “Tanagra” (1926) - https://www.instagram.com/reel/C8fcsVDP1g0/ Yuriko performing “Primitive Mysteries” troupes-performance-sensitive-and.html Paranoid Finance - Muniesa - https://dokumen.pub/paranoid-finance.html Gloria Mcleon choreography - https://vimeo.com/954239122 2022 Chuma-Miyamoto (1979 remake) - https://youtu.be/y1mEp1mbZB0?si=NF6IUJUJ9lDMwN_W&t=1553 Dramaturgy in Motion: Dance Performance - https://www.scribd.com/document/961416878/Dramaturgy-in-Motion-At-Work-on-Dance-and-Movement-Performance-1st-Edition-Katherine-Profeta To Hell with Culture - Herbert Read - https://archive.org/details/tohellwithcultur00read_0

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