Reimagining the Saigu Archive: LA 1992 and the Politics of Unending War
Ending the Korean War Teaching Collective Syllabus Launch + Conversation
co-presented by Korea Policy Institute and GYOPO

Sunday, April 7, 2023
5–8 PM

OXY ARTS
4757 York Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90042

Please join us for the Los Angeles launch of the open-access Ending the Korean War Teaching Collective Syllabus
and a conversation in which Christine Hong (KPI) and Yusef Omowale (Southern California Library) situate Saigu/LA Uprising against the unending Korean War and other U.S. counterinsurgent wars. This reframing counters the project of state-sanctioned memory and prompts critical reconceptions of the archive and Los Angeles as an imperial geography.

MORE ABOUT THE ENDING THE KOREAN WAR TEACHING COLLECTIVE SYLLABUS
The online, open-access Ending the Korean War Teaching Collective Syllabus is a political education platform serving as an anti-imperialist tool against permanent war.
Follow-up presentation at the 2023 Association for Asian American Studies Annual Conference on April 8th.

Before the recent global popularity of South Korean films and dramas, the 1950s and 1960s saw the emergence of some of the most dynamic cinematic auteurs who produced such classics as Madame Freedom (1956), The Housemaid (1960), Mother and a Guest (1961), and Aimless Bullet (1961). Join us for a two-day symposium at UCLA and the Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles, to learn about this era, its directors, and the films that have influenced generations of Korean filmmakers thereafter.

Featured film scholars, writers, and movie critics include Christina Klein, Steven Chung, Kyung Hyun Kim, Irhe Sohn, the author Paul Fischer and legendary movie critic and translator Darcy Paquet. Nahmee Lee, Laura Ha Reizman,and Kathleen McHugh will moderate roundtable discussions. The symposium is free and takes place in person. Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) tickets to the exhibition The Space Between: The Modern in Korean Art will include admission to the symposium.

Day 2 Speakers: Steven Chung, Paul Fischer, Darcy Paquet, Kyung Hyunn Kim, Irhe Sohn, and Laura Ha Reizman.

Location: Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles
5505 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA 90036
KCCLA has a free parking lot on site.

ASL Interpretation will be available throughout the entire symposium. Please be in touch (artgyopo@gmail.com) with any accessibility needs.

All of the films that will be discussed at the symposium are available for viewing on the Korean Classic Film Youtube Channel.

This event is organized by GYOPO and co-presented with the Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles, UCLA Center for Korean Studies, UCLA Center for the Study of Women | Barbra Streisand Center, and Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Thank you to our sponsors Susan Baik and Prem Manjooran, and Document Coffee.

In the midst of a pandemic, we continue to expand dialogue, support and acknowledge one another and maintain meaningful connections with each other. As our organization continues to evolve, we are determined to sustain our focus on GYOPO’s mission to foster the growth and representation of Korean Diasporic artists within our community. In response to an invitation by Otra Vox, we have selected six artists, in various stages of their artistic practice, who reflect the diverse and talented group of cultural workers within our GYOPO volunteer community. Each of the works in this exhibition expresses recurring themes GYOPO discussed and experienced as a collective during the past two years: solitude, beauty in nature, the power of words, and ultimately communion with one another. These artists continue to innovate and thrive in a world that is driven by constant change and survival. By gathering and sharing their work with our larger community, we remind our audience and supporters of the people who make GYOPO possible.

Artists:
Jisoo Chung
Michelle Kim
Roger Kim
Soo Kim
Chung Park
Kayla Tange

Co-Presented with Los Angeles County Museum of Art(LACMA), GYOPO, and Korean Film Archive

Location: Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles(3rd Fl. Ari Hall)
5505 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90036
FREE admission and Parking

In conjunction with the exhibition at LACMA, The Space Between: The Modern in Korean Art, join us for a selection of cinematic gems of the Modern era. This spectacular period (1954-1972), bookended by the war and a period of stifling film censorship, generated some of the most well-regarded films in Korea’s history.

Join us for two double features, highlighting the work of four of the most influential Korean directors, Kang Dae-jin, Kim Ki-young, Shin Sang-ok, and Yu Hyun-mok, who cemented filmmaking as a legitimate artistic medium, allowing for the modernizing country to disseminate its unique worldview on an international stage.

This film series anticipates a symposium in February 2023, dedicated to scholarship on the Golden Age of Korean Cinema, organized by GYOPO and co-presented by KCCLA, LACMA, and the UCLA Center for Korean Studies.