Vicki Sung-yeon Kwon
Biographic Data
| ID | 4985595 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vicki Sung-yeon Kwon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vicki Sung-yeon |
| FAMILY NAME | Kwon |
| SIGNATURE | KWON V S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alberta |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7873-8521 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
How Fear is Disseminated–– Memories and Records: The Vaccine Archive
Memories and Records: The Vaccine Archive explores both individual and collective memories of vaccination across geographic borders. This paper outlines the development of The Vaccine Archive and analyzes the visual culture of vaccines manifested in the archive collections. In examining the vaccine archives, the author argues that the visual culture of vaccination reinforces stereotypes and fear associated with vaccines, forming and disseminating…
Memories and Records: Thoughts on The Vaccine Archive
Vicki Sung-yeon Kwon, an art historian and curator, and Lathika Sritharan, a public health researcher, discuss their collaborative project Memories and Records: The Vaccine Archive, an archive display of vaccine-related memories and immunization records of people from various parts of the world. They share challenges and accomplishments of collaborating with multidisciplinary participants and mounting an art exhibition at the UNAIDS building. As …
Contested Memories, Precarious Apology: The Vietnam War in Contemporary Korean Art
This article examines art works that problematise the contested memories of the Vietnam War in South Korea. The collective memories of the Vietnam War in South Korea are contested by the official memory, constructed by the military regime, and the counter-memories, generated by activists who call for Korea to apologise to the Vietnamese people for the atrocities committed by Korean soldiers. IM Heung-soon’s publication This War (2009) and the sin…
Guyanese Mass Games: Spectacles that “moulded” the nation in a North Korean way
This paper examines the Guyanese Mass Games, multi-media spectacles of visual and performing arts initiated by the leader of the Co-Operative Republic of Guyana and performed by Guyanese artists and youth aided by North Korean artists. North Korea and Guyana staged the games as the postcolonial and anti-imperialist expression of a newly established socialist regime in the global South in the context of the Cold War. Staged annually from 1980 to 1…
The Sonyŏsang Phenomenon: Nationalism and Feminism Surrounding the "Comfort Women" Statue
This paper explores the cultural and social phenomenon surrounding Sonyŏsang, a bronze statue symbolizing the so-called "comfort women"—young women who were drafted for military sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Army during the Fifteen Years War (1931–1945). After the 2015 agreement between South Korea and Japan over the issue of the "comfort women," Sonyŏsang has developed into the Sonyŏsang phenomenon: voluntary citizen activism involving…
The Sonyŏsang Phenomenon: Nationalism and Feminism Surrounding the "Comfort Women" Statue
This paper explores the cultural and social phenomenon surrounding Sonyŏsang, a bronze statue symbolizing the so-called "comfort women"—young women who were drafted for military sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Army during the Fifteen Years War (1931–1945). After the 2015 agreement between South Korea and Japan over the issue of the "comfort women," Sonyŏsang has developed into the Sonyŏsang phenomenon: voluntary citizen activism involving…
Guyanese Mass Games: Spectacles that “moulded” the nation in a North Korean way
This paper examines the Guyanese Mass Games, multi-media spectacles of visual and performing arts initiated by the leader of the Co-Operative Republic of Guyana and performed by Guyanese artists and youth aided by North Korean artists. North Korea and Guyana staged the games as the postcolonial and anti-imperialist expression of a newly established socialist regime in the global South in the context of the Cold War. Staged annually from 1980 to 1…
Guyanese Mass Games: Spectacles that “moulded” the nation in a North Korean way
This paper examines the Guyanese Mass Games, multi-media spectacles of visual and performing arts initiated by the leader of the Co-Operative Republic of Guyana and performed by Guyanese artists and youth aided by North Korean artists. North Korea and Guyana staged the games as the postcolonial and anti-imperialist expression of a newly established socialist regime in the global South in the context of the Cold War. Staged annually from 1980 to 1…
The Sonyŏsang Phenomenon: Nationalism and Feminism Surrounding the "Comfort Women" Statue
This paper explores the cultural and social phenomenon surrounding Sonyŏsang, a bronze statue symbolizing the so-called "comfort women"—young women who were drafted for military sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Army during the Fifteen Years War (1931–1945). After the 2015 agreement between South Korea and Japan over the issue of the "comfort women," Sonyŏsang has developed into the Sonyŏsang phenomenon: voluntary citizen activism involving…
How Fear is Disseminated–– Memories and Records: The Vaccine Archive
Memories and Records: The Vaccine Archive explores both individual and collective memories of vaccination across geographic borders. This paper outlines the development of The Vaccine Archive and analyzes the visual culture of vaccines manifested in the archive collections. In examining the vaccine archives, the author argues that the visual culture of vaccination reinforces stereotypes and fear associated with vaccines, forming and disseminating…
Memories and Records: Thoughts on The Vaccine Archive
Vicki Sung-yeon Kwon, an art historian and curator, and Lathika Sritharan, a public health researcher, discuss their collaborative project Memories and Records: The Vaccine Archive, an archive display of vaccine-related memories and immunization records of people from various parts of the world. They share challenges and accomplishments of collaborating with multidisciplinary participants and mounting an art exhibition at the UNAIDS building. As …
Contested Memories, Precarious Apology: The Vietnam War in Contemporary Korean Art
This article examines art works that problematise the contested memories of the Vietnam War in South Korea. The collective memories of the Vietnam War in South Korea are contested by the official memory, constructed by the military regime, and the counter-memories, generated by activists who call for Korea to apologise to the Vietnamese people for the atrocities committed by Korean soldiers. IM Heung-soon’s publication This War (2009) and the sin…
History (5 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Art (3 works) · History (3 works) · Japanese History and Culture (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Visual arts (3 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works)