Written by Paek Sun-haeng, Team Manager, The Museum of Military Sexual Slavery by Japan, an affiliate organization of the Daegu Citizen Forum for Halmuni
Paek Sun-haeng
In this interview with Kyeol, artist Chang-Jin Lee discusses the vision behind her work and the power of art to communicate, connect people, and inspire change.
Chang-Jin Lee
Kim Dae-wol, Head Curator of the House of Sharing
Kim Dae-wol
What can art accomplish beyond aesthetics? Randy Jayne Rosenberg examines how it can preserve marginalized histories, support survivor testimony, and move audiences from observation toward ethical responsibility.
Randy Jayne Rosenberg
Kim Soon-ak was referred to by countless names throughout her life: As we can guess from her multiple names, her life was full of twists and turns we didn’t know or didn’t want to know about.
Purplay Kang Purm
The Japanese military “comfort women” have been a subject of transnational feminism that criticizes the patriarchy of war and talks about peace and a symbol connected to the unfinished issue, sexual violence against women.
Kim Eun-ha
The author – an ethnomusicologist – invites us to listen to “Comfort Women” survivors’ songs as a way to understand their lives and to remember them.
Joshua D. Pilzer
Similar to what the researchers considered in the fourth collection of testimonies, the line placement and long pauses in Emily Jungmin Yoon’s poems would be the mimesis for the testifiers’ persistent pain, long silence, faltering, and hesitation that are manifested through poetic deviation.
Lee Hye-ryoung
More than 10 years after the publication of the picture book “Flower Granny,” which tells the story of Sim Dalyeon, a victim of the Japanese Military “Comfort Women,” author Kwon Yoon-duk released “Yong, Maeng Ho,” the main character of the Vietnam War veteran. What is the story left by the author who has pointed out violence in Korean history through her works?
This is where the validity of the questions posed by this tangible AI interactive testimony content to the viewer lies: bringing up issues again about what to ask, not what to listen to. That’s because asking well must be accompanied by the constant consideration of the questioner. This, of course, would be to restore asking within the process of listening, not a reconversion or return to asking.
Bae Ju-yeon
