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    UPCOMING EVENT

    Saturday February 25, 2017

    Performance "Interval Recess Pause"

    Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, "Dictée", artist book, 1982. Courtesy of the Estate Theresa Hak Kyung Cha.

    Korean artist Sojung Jun, in res­i­dence at Villa Vassilieff in the frame­work of the Pernod Ricard Fellowship, invite the dancer and chore­og­ra­pher Olivia Lioret to inter­pret a page of the exper­i­mental novel "Dictée" by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, that gives its title to the exhi­bi­tion "Tell me the story of all these things".

    Indeed, the ref­er­ence to "Dictée" - which inter­ro­gates memory and uproot­ed­ness by exploring nine sto­ries of women - struc­ture the video of Sojung Jun cur­rently in pro­duc­tion in Paris, that will look at the exile of Korean chil­dren adopted in France. For 40 years, since the first adop­tion in 1958, South Korea fell back on inter­na­tional adop­tion. Ten thou­sand Korean chil­dren were adopted in France, second country for adop­tion after the United States. In her film, Sojung Jun looks at the visual, sound, olfac­tory and taste mem­o­ries of Korea kept by some of these per­sons adopted in France, and focuses on the poten­tial building of an indi­vidual and col­lec­tive sen­so­rial memory.
    For this public part of Sojung Jun’s film shooting, Olivia Lioret inter­prets a page of "Dictée" sig­nif­i­cantly chosen from the sec­tion of the novel placed under the aegis of Erato, muse of lyric poetry. In Cha’s work, "words become mental images, mental images become sounds, sounds become filmed images, filmed images become still images, still images become moments of memory" (Elvan Zabunyan, "Theresa Hak Kyung Cha. Berkeley - 1968"). Likewise, the per­for­mance at Villa Vassilieff will raise move­ments out of Cha’s words through the rep­e­ti­tions and vari­a­tions of a chore­o­graphic phrase by Olivia Lioret, then of these move­ments filmed by Sojung Jun make moving images which will res­onate in her film with the tes­ti­monies of men and women of Korean origin adopted in France and met during her res­i­dence.

    The per­for­mance will take place con­tin­u­ously from 3.30 to 5.30 PM, in the pres­ence of Sojung Jun and her cam­eraman who will film this public part of the shooting in pro­gress.

    PAST EVENT

    Saturday January 14, 2017

    Opening of the exhi­bi­tion Tell me the story of all these things. Beginning wherever you wish, tell even us.

    Opening of "Tell me the story of all these things. Beginning wherever you wish, tell even us.", Villa Vassilieff, Paris, January 14, 2017. Image: Margaux Paturel.
    Opening of "Tell me the story of all these things. Beginning wherever you wish, tell even us.", Villa Vassilieff, Paris, January 14, 2017. Image: Simon Rannou.
    Opening of "Tell me the story of all these things. Beginning wherever you wish, tell even us.", Villa Vassilieff, Paris, January 14, 2017. Image: Margaux Paturel.