Hallyu Images, Subversive Pleasures and Female Fandom in Cyberspace: Sunhee Lim and Sylbee Kim

Dong-Yeon Koh (고동연)

doi:10.17057/kahoma.2018..44.009

Hallyu Images, Subversive Pleasures and Female Fandom in Cyberspace: Sunhee Lim and Sylbee Kim

Journal of History of Modern Art
2018, (44), pp.229-252
DOI : 10.17057/kahoma.2018..44.009
Publisher : 현대미술사학회
Research Area : Arts and Kinesiology > Art > Arts in general > Art History
Received : October 19, 2018
Accepted : November 30, 2018
Published : December 31, 2018

Dong-Yeon Koh ¹

¹추계예술대학교

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ABSTRACT

The paper examines the two female media artists Sunhee Lim and Sylbee Kim with an aim of exploring how the digital environment has shifted the relationship among South Korean popular culture, known as Hallyu, online community, and contemporary media arts. Lim’s and Kim’s artistic production, comprise of fan cams, clips of melodramas circulated on the Internet, reveal their shared approach toward online community, in which female fans can explore their passion toward the alternative fictional reality of female protagonist as well as toward male idols, also known as “Kkotminam.” Thus, using theories on melodrama, gender dynamics in voyeurism, this essay further purports to explain participatory and even critical nature of (mostly female) fan culture in cyberspace, as best reflected and investigated in Lim’s Landscape in My Room (2011) and Kim’s Lover Boys (2009).

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Hallyu, Korean female media artists, Sunhee Lim, Sylbee Kim, male nude and voyeurism, female fandom

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