Woman + Body
Seoul and Gwangju, South Korea 2012 for Women's Caucus for Art
Director: Hye-Seong Tak Lee
Co-Director: Sherri Cornett
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Woman + Body Exhibition Video
Theme
Woman + Body explored the range of sexual identification - female, transgender, and male - with a contemporary, 21st century view. The subject of the female body was well-explored in the 1960's and produced many discourses in the 90's, related to such issues as AIDS, cosmetic surgery, stereotyping and discrimination. What is new? This exhibition seeks works by women that explore the human body from these perspectives:
1) Woman's Body as Subject: unabashed exploration of women's bodies and women's desires- unaltered, unadulterated images that set a new standard of beauty.
2) Transformation and Crossover: Bodies altered through cosmetics, cosmetic surgery, tattoos, sex change, cross dressing, costuming and other means to achieve a metamorphosis.
3) Man's Body as Subject: a woman's view of the male body - affectionate, lustful, critical, envious.
Background
Hye-Seong Tak Lee, a Korean Women's Caucus for Art Member-At-Large, independent curator, artist and lecturer at Gwangju University, initially proposed this collaboration between WCA artists and Korean women artists to Sherri Cornett, who became the co-director, with Hye-Seong, of this project. Sherri traveled to Seoul to install and open the first venue of this collaboration.
Website
http://wcainternationalcaucus.weebly.com/woman--body-2012south-korea.html
Dates & Location
Kepco Art Center Gallery
October 13-19, 2012
Seoul, Republic of Korea
MediaCube 338
October 23-November 6, 2012
Gwangju, Republic of Korea
Juror
Tanya Augsburg is a feminist interdisciplinary performance scholar who specializes in contemporary art and performance. Dr. Augsburg has been teaching at San Francisco State University since 2007, where she is Assistant Professor of Liberal Studies in the areas of the Creative Arts and Humanities.
WCA Artists Included in Woman + Body
Bilingual catalogs were printed by the Gwangju Cultural Foundation in South Korea. ISBN#978-0-9831702-5-9
Press and Blogs
The Asia Cultural Complex blog
http://blog.naver.com/cultureasia?Redirect=Log&logNo=40172308068&from=postView
Laurie Edison, whose photographs were included in Woman + Body, has written about the exhibition in her feminist blog Body Impolitic. Her first post can be read here
http://laurietobyedison.com/discuss/?p=8376#comment-1329759
Laurie Edison's second blog about Woman + Body, focusing on the Korean artists
http://laurietobyedison.com/discuss/?p=8643
Laurie Edison's blog reposted on Feminista
http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2012/10/23/photographs-in-international-feminist-exhibition-in-korea/
ArtNews
http://artnews.me/?p=14164
ArtSum
http://www.artsum.co.kr/ex_detail.php?num=888
WomanCS
http://www.womancs.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=4590
Monthly Photo.com
http://www.monthlyphoto.com/news/exhibition_view.asp?seqs=2827&page=1
Homae
http://press.honammaeil.co.kr/newsRead.php?no=657500
Economic Post
http://www.economicpost.co.kr/bbs/board.php?bo_table=artist&wr_id=100
Design Sori
http://designsori.com/exh/414003
Photo.co.kr
http://www.photo.co.kr/news/view.php?w_seq=237&kind_code=10
NToday
http://www.ntoday.co.kr/atc/view.asp?P_Index=2122
4x4 News Korea
http://www.4x4.co.kr/detail.php?number=1687&thread=34r02
International Korean Business Centre
http://www.ikbc.net/news/view.html?smode=&skey=macho+metal+culture&x=0&y=0§ion=1&category=5&no=48713
ChosunBiz
http://biz.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2012/10/16/2012101602151.html
ACROFAN - The Contents Agent Group
http://www.acrofan.com/ko-kr/life/news/?mode=view&cate=02&seq=36223&wd=20121015&ucode=00000046&page=2
News1 Korea
http://news1.kr/articles/854576
News Hankuk
http://www.newshankuk.com/news/content.asp?fs=1&ss=4&news_idx=201210161447521267
Energy Daily
http://energydaily.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=39358
Yahoo! Korea
http://kr.news.yahoo.com/service/news/shellview.htm?linkid=463&articleid=20121015172600756b3&newssetid=5
Chinca
A magazine styled blog created, written and curated by English-speakers living in South Korea focusing on on event previews, reviews, and Korea-based photography, art and music.
http://chincha.co.uk/2012/10/events-korea-october/
Korean Press Agency
http://www.koreapressagency.com/news/view.html?skey=%BA%B8%B5§ion=1&category=7&no=72256
JoinsMSN
http://article.joinsmsn.com/news/article/article.asp?total_id=9736650
News Nocut
http://press.cbs.co.kr/newsRead.php?no=657500
Koreaen.co.kr
http://www.koreaen.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=29684
iPhos webzine
http://webzine.iphos.co.kr/webzine/news/exhibition_view.asp?ins_no=4417&newsartist_
ETNews Korea
http://www.etnews.com/list/press_view.html?id=0657500
Coca News
http://cocanews.com/?doc=news/read.htm&ns_id=19386
Korea Media United News
http://www.kmunews.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=582
ArtGuide Korea
http://daljin.com/?WS=21&BC=gdv&GNO=D003287&sfl=&stx=&date=201210&tab=&area=&cate=&genre=&kind=
Woman + Body explored the range of sexual identification - female, transgender, and male - with a contemporary, 21st century view. The subject of the female body was well-explored in the 1960's and produced many discourses in the 90's, related to such issues as AIDS, cosmetic surgery, stereotyping and discrimination. What is new? This exhibition seeks works by women that explore the human body from these perspectives:
1) Woman's Body as Subject: unabashed exploration of women's bodies and women's desires- unaltered, unadulterated images that set a new standard of beauty.
2) Transformation and Crossover: Bodies altered through cosmetics, cosmetic surgery, tattoos, sex change, cross dressing, costuming and other means to achieve a metamorphosis.
3) Man's Body as Subject: a woman's view of the male body - affectionate, lustful, critical, envious.
Background
Hye-Seong Tak Lee, a Korean Women's Caucus for Art Member-At-Large, independent curator, artist and lecturer at Gwangju University, initially proposed this collaboration between WCA artists and Korean women artists to Sherri Cornett, who became the co-director, with Hye-Seong, of this project. Sherri traveled to Seoul to install and open the first venue of this collaboration.
Website
http://wcainternationalcaucus.weebly.com/woman--body-2012south-korea.html
Dates & Location
Kepco Art Center Gallery
October 13-19, 2012
Seoul, Republic of Korea
MediaCube 338
October 23-November 6, 2012
Gwangju, Republic of Korea
Juror
Tanya Augsburg is a feminist interdisciplinary performance scholar who specializes in contemporary art and performance. Dr. Augsburg has been teaching at San Francisco State University since 2007, where she is Assistant Professor of Liberal Studies in the areas of the Creative Arts and Humanities.
WCA Artists Included in Woman + Body
- Elaine Alibrandi, "I Have the Fee in Here Somewhere"
- Tracy Brown, "Macho Metal Culture"
- Jessica Burke, "She Wishes It Was True"
- Sherri Cornett, "Skin Muscle Sinew"
- Laurie Edison, "Marlene Hoeber", "Jerry Kellan McCracken", and "Kellan McCracken"
- Pamela Flynn, "Fetish #3"
- Chanel Govreau, "Queen Gidrea Family Armor"
- Krista Jiannacopoulos, "The Breast of a Man" and "Man's Hairy Breast and Nipple"
- C.M. Judge and Paula Rendino Zaentz, "On Mine Hands, On Thine Hands"
- Sheri Klein, "What Women Say and Think About Their Bodies"
- Lee Lee, "Cradle"
- Sandra Mueller, "Venus Swirls"
- Brenda Oelbaum, "The Willendorf Project" and "Results May Vary"
- Priscilla Otani, "All Dolled Up"
- Karen Purdy, "Captain Underpants"
- Trix Rosen, "Beyond XY - Inside the Abandoned Falstaff Brewery, No.
- Ann Rowles, "Mix and Match"
- Mary Shisler, "Aphrodite's Walk"
- Patricia Tinajero, "What Women Want"
- Yun Suknam
- Park Youngsook
- Jung Jungyeob
- Min Kyung Kwon
- Lee Ju Ree
- Lee, ja yeon
- Kim Min Hyung
- NANDA
- Ryu Jun Hwa
- YOU Hyeonkyeong
- Jueon Kim
- Byun Hyun Soo
- Lee R I'm
- Yoon, Sung Hee
- Eunju Kim
- Miru Kim
- Hayoung Joo
Bilingual catalogs were printed by the Gwangju Cultural Foundation in South Korea. ISBN#978-0-9831702-5-9
Press and Blogs
The Asia Cultural Complex blog
http://blog.naver.com/cultureasia?Redirect=Log&logNo=40172308068&from=postView
Laurie Edison, whose photographs were included in Woman + Body, has written about the exhibition in her feminist blog Body Impolitic. Her first post can be read here
http://laurietobyedison.com/discuss/?p=8376#comment-1329759
Laurie Edison's second blog about Woman + Body, focusing on the Korean artists
http://laurietobyedison.com/discuss/?p=8643
Laurie Edison's blog reposted on Feminista
http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2012/10/23/photographs-in-international-feminist-exhibition-in-korea/
ArtNews
http://artnews.me/?p=14164
ArtSum
http://www.artsum.co.kr/ex_detail.php?num=888
WomanCS
http://www.womancs.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=4590
Monthly Photo.com
http://www.monthlyphoto.com/news/exhibition_view.asp?seqs=2827&page=1
Homae
http://press.honammaeil.co.kr/newsRead.php?no=657500
Economic Post
http://www.economicpost.co.kr/bbs/board.php?bo_table=artist&wr_id=100
Design Sori
http://designsori.com/exh/414003
Photo.co.kr
http://www.photo.co.kr/news/view.php?w_seq=237&kind_code=10
NToday
http://www.ntoday.co.kr/atc/view.asp?P_Index=2122
4x4 News Korea
http://www.4x4.co.kr/detail.php?number=1687&thread=34r02
International Korean Business Centre
http://www.ikbc.net/news/view.html?smode=&skey=macho+metal+culture&x=0&y=0§ion=1&category=5&no=48713
ChosunBiz
http://biz.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2012/10/16/2012101602151.html
ACROFAN - The Contents Agent Group
http://www.acrofan.com/ko-kr/life/news/?mode=view&cate=02&seq=36223&wd=20121015&ucode=00000046&page=2
News1 Korea
http://news1.kr/articles/854576
News Hankuk
http://www.newshankuk.com/news/content.asp?fs=1&ss=4&news_idx=201210161447521267
Energy Daily
http://energydaily.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=39358
Yahoo! Korea
http://kr.news.yahoo.com/service/news/shellview.htm?linkid=463&articleid=20121015172600756b3&newssetid=5
Chinca
A magazine styled blog created, written and curated by English-speakers living in South Korea focusing on on event previews, reviews, and Korea-based photography, art and music.
http://chincha.co.uk/2012/10/events-korea-october/
Korean Press Agency
http://www.koreapressagency.com/news/view.html?skey=%BA%B8%B5§ion=1&category=7&no=72256
JoinsMSN
http://article.joinsmsn.com/news/article/article.asp?total_id=9736650
News Nocut
http://press.cbs.co.kr/newsRead.php?no=657500
Koreaen.co.kr
http://www.koreaen.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=29684
iPhos webzine
http://webzine.iphos.co.kr/webzine/news/exhibition_view.asp?ins_no=4417&newsartist_
ETNews Korea
http://www.etnews.com/list/press_view.html?id=0657500
Coca News
http://cocanews.com/?doc=news/read.htm&ns_id=19386
Korea Media United News
http://www.kmunews.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=582
ArtGuide Korea
http://daljin.com/?WS=21&BC=gdv&GNO=D003287&sfl=&stx=&date=201210&tab=&area=&cate=&genre=&kind=