Post-pastoral Perspectives of Korean Environment in Contemporary Art and Literature
- Authors
- Chung, Kimberly
- Issue Date
- Jun-2019
- Publisher
- ACADEMIA KOREANA KEIMYUNG UNIV
- Keywords
- post-pastoral; Korean art; Korean literature; ecocriticism; South Korean development; Korean environment
- Citation
- ACTA KOREANA, v.22, no.1, pp.17 - 33
- Journal Title
- ACTA KOREANA
- Volume
- 22
- Number
- 1
- Start Page
- 17
- End Page
- 33
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/hongik/handle/2020.sw.hongik/12634
- DOI
- 10.18399/acta.2019.22.1.002
- ISSN
- 1520-7412
- Abstract
- Mixrice, an art collective of artists Yang Ch'olmo [Yang Chul Mo] and Cho Chiun [Cho Ji Eun] won the 2016 Korea Artist Prize for their provocative multimedia project that featured a two-channel video installation, titled "The Vine Chronicle." Centrally documenting the various lives of trees, like a 450-year old Zelkova tree from the village of Kangdong-ri, the video portrays their itinerant lives as they are moved to various sites to fuel capitalist development schemes: camping resorts, apartment complexes and redevelopment sites. Using this exhibit and its unique post-pastoral perspective as a frame, this article explores contemporary perceptions of Korean environment in art and literature. In this study, I am interested in drawing connections among ecocritical artworks and literary works that highlight the dispossession of human and non-human life and the history of rapid South Korean development. These works seek to complicate notions of South Korean development, environmental degradation and migration through a post-pastoral frame.
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