Sensing Borderlands 9.14.22

Jung Joon Lee

Sensing Borderlands: The DMZ, Camptowns, and the Theater of Repetition

Wednesday September 14, 4:45pm

Goldwin Smith Hall G22, reception to follow

Findley History of Art Lecture Series

 

Exploring what it means to practice photography in the normalized conditions of militarism, Jung Joon Lee’s forthcoming book Shooting for Change: Korean Photography after the War (Duke University Press) treats the transnational militarism of Korea not as a unique subject of Korean photography but a lens through which we may probe the officially and culturally sanctioned readings of images when returning to them at different times. In this talk, Lee considers the temporality and performance of repetition as a key onto-epistemic framework in visualizing the space of transnational militarism - namely, the DMZ and U.S. military camptowns in South Korea.

Jung Joon Lee is a 2022-23 Society Fellow at Cornell University’s Society for the Humanities and Associate Professor in the Department of Theory and History of Art and Design at Rhode Island School of Design. A specialist in histories and theories of photography, Lee’s research and teaching interests span the intersections of art and politics, transoceanic intimacies and decoloniality, and gender and sexuality. In addition to her forthcoming book on Korean photography, Lee is currently working on two book projects: a monograph exploring exhibitions as a space of minoritarian aesthetics, kinship making, and historical rupture; and the co-edited volume, Queer Feminist Elsewhere: Decolonial Making in Trans-Pacific Art.

 

Image caption: Installation view of DMZ images at Ch’ŏrwon Peace Observatory, 2019. Photographed by Jung Joon Lee.

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