Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA)
2155 Center Street
September 12, 2001–December 16, 2002
University Art Gallery, University of California
January 15–March 3, 2002
The Bronx Musuem of Art
1040 Grand Concourse at 165th St.
April 4–June 16, 2002
Though Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s artist’s book–cum-novel Dictee commands cultlike enthusiasm to this day, her visual work remains largely unknown. Now, twenty years after her murder, this full retrospective provides an overview of Cha’s lyrical oeuvre. The performance artist, filmmaker, poet, and sculptor investigated geographic exile and linguistic displacement, drawing on influences from feminist psychoanalytic theory to Catholicism and Korean history. A catalogue with essays by Lawrence Rinder, Trinh T. Minh-ha, and curator Constance Lewallen is planned.