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The Woman, The Orphan, and the Tiger - Screening and Q&A

Tue, Mar 13, 2012, 12:00 am

Please join us for a film screening of

The Woman, The Orphan, and the Tiger
A documentary by Jane Jin Kaisen and Guston Sondin-Kung, followed by discussion with the filmmakers

When: Wednesday, March 14, 2012,
Time: 6:30 p.m.
Location: Physical Sciences 110

About the documentary: The Woman, the Orphan, and the Tiger follows a group of international adoptees and other women of the Korean diaspora in the twenties and thirties.  The physical return of the diaspora confronts and destabilizes narratives constructed to silence histories of violence and injustice committed onto certain parts of the population in South Korea.  A gendered genealogy is created by relating the stories of three generations of women: the former “comfort women” who were subjected to military sexual slavery by the Japanese Imperial Army during the Pacific War, the approximately one million women who have worked as sex workers around U.S. military based in South Korea from mid-century to the present, and the estimated two hundred thousand children who were adopted from South Korea to largely the United States and Europe since the 1950s.  The film exposes how military and patriarchal violence against women and children became central in geopolitical negotiations between South Korea, the United States, and Japan, and how this part of world history has been obscured yet reverberates in the present moment.

About the filmmakers: Jane Jin Kaisen is a visual artist based in Copenhagen.  She holds an MA in Art Theory and Communication from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, an MFA in Interdisciplinary Studio Art from UCLA, and she participated in the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program.  Jane Jin has exhibited her artwork at Kunsthallen Brandts, the Nikolaj Contemporary Art Center, the Museum of Contemporary Art Roskilde, and the National Museum of Photography in Denmark, Malmö Kunsthall in Sweden, Videonale13 in Germany, the 2009 Incheon Women Artists’ Biennale and the 2007 Gwangju Biennale in South Korea, the 2nd Deformes Biennale at Gallery Metropolitana in Chile, Yamegata International Documentary Film Festival, Kyoto Museum of Art and Kyoto Art Center in Japan, Taiwan International Docoumentary Film Festival, the National Gallery in Indonesia, 798 Art Zone in Beijing, China, and Gana Art Gallery, and Amelie A. Wallace in New York, USA.  She is co-founder of the artist collective UFOlab (Unidentified Object LABoratory), co-founder of the collective Chamber of Public Secrets, and co-founder of Grassroots Cinema Center for Women and Children.

Guston Sondin-Kung is an American visual artist based in Copenhagen, Denmark.  He holds a BFA from California Institute of the Arts and has held a faculty teaching position at Otis College of Art and Design for four years.  While teaching at Otis he also helped to found and then taught in the OTEAM program.  He has lectured at the Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, CCA Kitakyushu Museum, Depaul University, and the Museum of Jurassic Technology among others.  He has exhibited his work at MOCA Geffen Contemporary, Kunsthallen Nikolaj, Kunstmuseum Bonn: Videonale13, CCA Kitakyushu Museum Japan, Vox Populi Gallery and SolwayJones Gallery.  He has received grants from the J. Paul Getty Museum, Yip Harburg Foundation, the James Irvine Foundation, the Rosalindo and Arthur Gilbert Foundation and the Danish Arts Council.  His film in collaboration with Jane Jin Kaisen was nominated for a new currents award at Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival and an Asian Vision Award at the Taiwan International Documentary Film Festival.

Cosponsored by the Asian American and Pacific Islander Resource Center, the Department of Film & Digital Media, the Department of History, Stevenson College, and Cowell College.  Event free and open to the public.  For further information, please contact Christine Hong at cjhong@ucsc.edu.