Beyond Mass Hysteria. Artistic Responses to Misogynistic Violence in Im Heung-soon and Dinh Q. Lê

Keynote Speech at Kor;East, one-day Early Career Researchers Conference showcasing postgraduate and emerging scholars whose work illuminates the complex exchanges between Korea and its regional neighbours.

My talk is a cross-analysis of Korean artist Im-Heung Soon's 'Factory Complex' and Vietnamese artist Dinh Q Lê's 'The Texture of Memory', focusing on their shared engagement with violence exerted on women and their reception in psychiatric terms. I deconstruct the latter's epistemological basis as founded on western, patriarchal medical knowledge, highlighting artist' and non-western paradigms of healing.

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