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Yong Soon Min at Art in General - Brief ArticleYong shortly Min returns to New York with her special repertoire of symbolically charged materials that poetically summon Korean history while dissecting Korean and Korean-American identity. Her novel work is a complex weave of Asian diasporic reflection and memorialization replayed for us against a backdrop of geopolitical conflict and chilled War demystification. Geohistorical reflections (lyrically enriched by dint of images of what Min calls "Defining Moments") are at the core of her work, and are best press outed in The Bridge of No turn back a vividly metaphoric sculptural installation that symbolically invokes a historic prisoner exchange at the extreme point of the Korean War. In this incident, captured soldiers upon both sides were given the option of going to the North or South--with no confidence of ever returning to the other. A freestanding, fencelike 8-foot-high construction of aluminum struts and wire interstice the work is a snaking "S" form that invokes the spiritual universal of yin and yang. Its physical transparency allows the viewer to symbolically and simultaneously rencounter the inextricably linked experiences of North and southerly Korea. It's a symbol of male and female, of night and day, of the interdependence of human experience. on the other hand it also references the split between family (the yin-yang icon is upon the South Korean flag) as well as the cultural and metaphysical separation of Korean immigrants (and their hyphenated offspring) from the Korean nation and its bifurcated history. The fencelike form is overspreaded in culturally charged language fragments printed upon magnetic strips and is metaphorically divided into night and day by dint of a horizontal row of clock faces hung upon both sides. Photographic images upon each clock face represent a series of national Korean "defining moments" The work is ultimately a three-dimensional cultural portrait of pan-Korean sensibility and Min attempts to in some way reconcile her relationship to the couple the totalitarian North and the crisis-ridden, free-market republic in the South Min's work beautifully monitors and shows the inner life of the immigrant/expatriate. An immigrant herself, she remains focused upon the intricate connections between national agriculture the poetics of identity and the unpredictable, hybrid reconfigurations of the individual life caught in forced cultural dispersion. COPYRIGHT 1999 Brant Publications, Inc. Everything broke into absence, as if That were a serviceable thing. First, the weather Stood up from its bed & quietly quivered, then you quivered. The windows awoke, all caked With speckle of f... Foreword The astonishing specter of September 11 2001 jarred America and, indeed, all at liberty nations, into accepting the previously unthinkable--the world's single remaining superpower is ... Anonymous American Machinist 05-01-2005 RETROSPECTIVE Byline: Anonymous Volume: 149 Number: 5 ISSN: 10417958 Publication Date: 05-01-2005 Page: ... I. INTRODUCTION When business entities are sufficiently large or sophisticated, they may make the deliberate choice to retain certain risks and decide not to gain insurance. Simi... Anonymous American Machinist 07-01-2005 The 15 billion dollar question! The saving in choosing the right priority Byline: Anonymous ISSN: 10417958 Publicati... 1 make an incision in out and discard the center from a 9-inch paper plate. 2 For a hanger, tape the extreme points of a length of string to the back of the plate rim. 3 To make each sunflo... The affinity between Walter Benjamin and contemporary film scholars be pendents on something deeper than agreement with the theoretical points he makes. Many of his claims, like the link between the ev... Last September, Aliyah Strauss, Israel section president, visited 11 U WILPF branches -- Cleveland, Cape codfish Boston, Ann Arbor, Detroit, Madison, St Louis, observes Angeles, Portland, Phi... Richard Yarde's work defies the universal that watercolor paintings should be small, charming renderings of landscapes or flowers. His paintings are monumental in scale, and they expres poignantl... Independence bandsaw blades combine a high-performance, high-speed cutting cutting side with a high fatigue backer to bridge the gap between bimetal blades and carbide-tipped blades. Reportedly, the ... |
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