Webzine-KYEOL │ Research Institute on Japanese Military Sexsual Slavery (RIMSS)

Now/here, the inside and outside of the 'comfort women' films (Part 1)

Written by Son Hee-jung, Yonsei University Institute of Gender Studies

Son Hee-jung

Now/here, the inside and outside of the 'comfort women' films (Part 2)

Written by Son Hee-jung, Yonsei University Institute of Gender Studies

Son Hee-jung

When Art Interrupts Silence: Conversation with Artist Chang-Jin Lee about Her COMFORT WOMEN WANTED Project and More (1)

When Art Interrupts Silence: Conversation with Chang-Jin Lee (1)

At times, a single poster can speak more powerfully than a hundred-page book. Kyeol had a conversation with New York-based artist Chang-Jin Lee regarding her COMFORT WOMEN WANTED project and how art can shed light on questions of gender, identity, and memory.

Chang-Jin Lee

The voices that rolled inside bodies – Emily Jungmin Yoon’s collection of poems A Cruelty Special to Our Species

Similar to what the researchers considered in the fourth collection of testimonies, the line placement and long pauses in Emily Jungmin Yoon’s poems would be the mimesis for the testifiers’ persistent pain, long silence, faltering, and hesitation that are manifested through poetic deviation.

Lee Hye-ryoung

The Power of Art: Conversation with Artist Chang-Jin Lee COMFORT WOMEN WANTED Project and More (2)

The Power of Art: Conversation with Chang-Jin Lee (2)

In this interview with Kyeol, artist Chang-Jin Lee discusses the vision behind her work and the power of art to communicate, connect people, and inspire change.

Chang-Jin Lee

2022 여성인권과 평화 국제 컨퍼런스_04 ⓒ한국여성인권진흥원 일본군‘위안부’문제연구소

A New Political Horizon Opening with Wounds - Report on the International Conference on Women’s Rights and Peace 2022

The Japanese military “comfort women” have been a subject of transnational feminism that criticizes the patriarchy of war and talks about peace and a symbol connected to the unfinished issue, sexual violence against women.

Kim Eun-ha

AI 인터랙티브 증언 콘텐츠 ©한국여성인권진흥원 일본군‘위안부’문제연구소

Testimony, Common Voice - An Exhibition of the AI Interactive Testimony Content, “Encountering Testimonies”

This is where the validity of the questions posed by this tangible AI interactive testimony content to the viewer lies: bringing up issues again about what to ask, not what to listen to. That’s because asking well must be accompanied by the constant consideration of the questioner. This, of course, would be to restore asking within the process of listening, not a reconversion or return to asking.

Bae Ju-yeon

Problems in the Ethics of Female Representation

A Conversation between Gina Kim and Han Sang Kim

Kim Gin-a

Don’t dwell on anger; treat it as if it’s your current problem – Interview with Paek Sun-haeng, an activist from the Museum of Military Sexual Slavery by Japan

Written by Paek Sun-haeng, Team Manager, The Museum of Military Sexual Slavery by Japan, an affiliate organization of the Daegu Citizen Forum for Halmuni

Paek Sun-haeng

[We Met, and Now We Are Healing Together] Interview with Ahn Hae-ryong and Ito Takashi

The photo exhibition , in which the victims of the Japanese Military ‘Comfort Women’ (called ‘Comfort Women’) from South Korea and North Korea join together, was held from March 6 to 11 at Exhibition Hall 2 of the Insa Art Center.

Ahn Hae-ryong

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