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Post-pastoral Perspectives of Korean Environment in Contemporary Art and Literature.
- Source :
- Acta Koreana; Jun2019, Vol. 22 Issue 1, p17-33, 17p
- Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- Mixrice, an art collective of artists Yang Ch'ŏlmo [Yang Chul Mo] and Cho Chiŭn [Cho Ji Eun] won the 2016 Korea Artist Prize for their provocative multimedia project that featured a two-channel video installation, titled "The Vine Chronicle." Centrally documenting the various lives of trees, like a 450- year old Zelkova tree from the village of Kangdong-ri, the video portrays their itinerant lives as they are moved to various sites to fuel capitalist development schemes: camping resorts, apartment complexes and redevelopment sites. Using this exhibit and its unique post-pastoral perspective as a frame, this article explores contemporary perceptions of Korean environment in art and literature. In this study, I am interested in drawing connections among ecocritical artworks and literary works that highlight the dispossession of human and non-human life and the history of rapid South Korean development. These works seek to complicate notions of South Korean development, environmental degradation and migration through a post-pastoral frame. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 15207412
- Volume :
- 22
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Supplemental Index
- Journal :
- Acta Koreana
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 137179122
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.18399/acta.2019.22.1.002