@article{ART002249070},
author={Lee, Kyong Rae and Lee, Kwang Suk},
title={Documenting Contemporary ‘Counter-memories’: Focused on the Yongsan Tragedy},
journal={The Korean Journal of Archival Studies},
issn={1229-7941},
year={2017},
number={53},
pages={45-77},
doi={10.20923/kjas.2017.53.045}
TY - JOUR
AU - Lee, Kyong Rae
AU - Lee, Kwang Suk
TI - Documenting Contemporary ‘Counter-memories’: Focused on the Yongsan Tragedy
JO - The Korean Journal of Archival Studies
PY - 2017
VL - null
IS - 53
PB - Korean Society Of Archival Studies
SP - 45
EP - 77
SN - 1229-7941
AB - This study intends to rehabilitate the memories of the social other which have been gradually forgotten in the social events overloaded with the undemocratic violence in South Korea today. This study explores a case of Yongsan Tragedy in 2009 among the most tragic events. It notes the autonomous ways in which activist artists would like to memorize the socio-historical events anew despite the emptiness of public records. In other words, this study considers the Yongsan case to be significant that a group of the public, artists, grassroots activists, religion men got together in solidarity so as to create the contested narratives countering dominant memories and thus to signify the records written by the civil society. Among others, activist artists had documented the unofficial counter-memories of socially alienated peoples in terms of planning a series of artistic events such as opening some gallery exhibitions and performance events, issuing a volume of work books, comics and photographies, online broadcasting, and directing some documentaries. Especially, this paper tends to note the documentation of on-site activist artists to record the counter-memories against social oblivion. By doing so, it finally suggests how we could document the Yongsan Tragedy both to search out the archival implications of today’s art activism and to insert those artistic records into the commonly shared counter-memories in a more inclusive way.
KW - Socio-historical Event;Counter-memory;Contested narratives;Yongsan Tragedy;Art activism;Archiving activism
DO - 10.20923/kjas.2017.53.045
ER -
Lee, Kyong Rae and Lee, Kwang Suk. (2017). Documenting Contemporary ‘Counter-memories’: Focused on the Yongsan Tragedy. The Korean Journal of Archival Studies, 53, 45-77.
Lee, Kyong Rae and Lee, Kwang Suk. 2017, "Documenting Contemporary ‘Counter-memories’: Focused on the Yongsan Tragedy", The Korean Journal of Archival Studies, no.53, pp.45-77. Available from: doi:10.20923/kjas.2017.53.045
Lee, Kyong Rae, Lee, Kwang Suk "Documenting Contemporary ‘Counter-memories’: Focused on the Yongsan Tragedy" The Korean Journal of Archival Studies 53 pp.45-77 (2017) : 45.
Lee, Kyong Rae, Lee, Kwang Suk. Documenting Contemporary ‘Counter-memories’: Focused on the Yongsan Tragedy. 2017; 53 : 45-77. Available from: doi:10.20923/kjas.2017.53.045
Lee, Kyong Rae and Lee, Kwang Suk. "Documenting Contemporary ‘Counter-memories’: Focused on the Yongsan Tragedy" The Korean Journal of Archival Studies no.53(2017) : 45-77.doi: 10.20923/kjas.2017.53.045
Lee, Kyong Rae; Lee, Kwang Suk. Documenting Contemporary ‘Counter-memories’: Focused on the Yongsan Tragedy. The Korean Journal of Archival Studies, 53, 45-77. doi: 10.20923/kjas.2017.53.045
Lee, Kyong Rae; Lee, Kwang Suk. Documenting Contemporary ‘Counter-memories’: Focused on the Yongsan Tragedy. The Korean Journal of Archival Studies. 2017; 53 45-77. doi: 10.20923/kjas.2017.53.045
Lee, Kyong Rae, Lee, Kwang Suk. Documenting Contemporary ‘Counter-memories’: Focused on the Yongsan Tragedy. 2017; 53 : 45-77. Available from: doi:10.20923/kjas.2017.53.045
Lee, Kyong Rae and Lee, Kwang Suk. "Documenting Contemporary ‘Counter-memories’: Focused on the Yongsan Tragedy" The Korean Journal of Archival Studies no.53(2017) : 45-77.doi: 10.20923/kjas.2017.53.045
