Old Media 1

Discarding the myth of the ‘High-Tech’ that has been clinging to media art, this session is dedicated to pondering the long time frame required of a medium (spiritual intermediary). Kim Yong-eon explores the way elderly women had been represented in film and political culture, and describes femininity within the fear and hysteria of tearing away the clich? ‘grandmother’ image and escaping from it. Chien-hung Huang discusses Taiwanese media art through the lens of ‘aphasia.’ Chung Seoyoung reveals a series of aesthetic processes applied in her recent works and in her exhibit at Mediacity Seoul 2014 titled Old Problems Gathered in a Temporary Manner. Siren Eun Young Jung’s Fencers is a ‘lecture-performance’ based on Korean female opera, violating the ‘naturalized’ norm regarding gender and searching for new possibilities for gender politics. Park Chan-kyong conducts a workshop on reconstructing historical statements of art and arranging memory and information.

Lecture 1: CHUNG Seoyoung, “Old Problems Gathered in a Temporary Maner”
Lecture 2: Kim Yong-eon, “Strange Grandmothers”
Lecture 3: Chien-hung Huang, “Aphasia Media from Taiwanese Touch” (Chinese-Korean consecutive interpretation)