Events
UPCOMING EVENT
Saturday February 25, 2017
Performance "Interval Recess Pause"
- Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, "Dictée", artist book, 1982. Courtesy of the Estate Theresa Hak Kyung Cha.
Korean artist Sojung Jun, in residence at Villa Vassilieff in the framework of the Pernod Ricard Fellowship, invite the dancer and choreographer Olivia Lioret to interpret a page of the experimental novel "Dictée" by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, that gives its title to the exhibition "Tell me the story of all these things".
Indeed, the reference to "Dictée" - which interrogates memory and uprootedness by exploring nine stories of women - structure the video of Sojung Jun currently in production in Paris, that will look at the exile of Korean children adopted in France. For 40 years, since the first adoption in 1958, South Korea fell back on international adoption. Ten thousand Korean children were adopted in France, second country for adoption after the United States. In her film, Sojung Jun looks at the visual, sound, olfactory and taste memories of Korea kept by some of these persons adopted in France, and focuses on the potential building of an individual and collective sensorial memory.
For this public part of Sojung Jun’s film shooting, Olivia Lioret interprets a page of "Dictée" significantly chosen from the section of the novel placed under the aegis of Erato, muse of lyric poetry. In Cha’s work, "words become mental images, mental images become sounds, sounds become filmed images, filmed images become still images, still images become moments of memory" (Elvan Zabunyan, "Theresa Hak Kyung Cha. Berkeley - 1968"). Likewise, the performance at Villa Vassilieff will raise movements out of Cha’s words through the repetitions and variations of a choreographic phrase by Olivia Lioret, then of these movements filmed by Sojung Jun make moving images which will resonate in her film with the testimonies of men and women of Korean origin adopted in France and met during her residence.
The performance will take place continuously from 3.30 to 5.30 PM, in the presence of Sojung Jun and her cameraman who will film this public part of the shooting in progress.
PAST EVENT
Saturday January 14, 2017
Opening of the exhibition Tell me the story of all these things. Beginning wherever you wish, tell even us.
- Opening of "Tell me the story of all these things. Beginning wherever you wish, tell even us.", Villa Vassilieff, Paris, January 14, 2017. Image: Margaux Paturel.
- Opening of "Tell me the story of all these things. Beginning wherever you wish, tell even us.", Villa Vassilieff, Paris, January 14, 2017. Image: Simon Rannou.
- Opening of "Tell me the story of all these things. Beginning wherever you wish, tell even us.", Villa Vassilieff, Paris, January 14, 2017. Image: Margaux Paturel.
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