'Halmang' a film screening by Jane Jin Kaisen and discussion
Schedule
Sat May 11 2024 at 03:00 pm
Location
Video Pool Media Arts Centre | Winnipeg, MB
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Plug In ICA is thrilled to announce a film screening and panel discussion of 'Halmang' by artist Jane Jin Kaisen. Join us May 11, 2024 at 3pm at the Output to view the film and participate in discussion with curator Irene Campolmi, Jane Jin Kaisen, and Noa Bronstein moderated by Allison Yearwood.?️ Event info:
Date: Saturday, May 11th, 2024
Time: 3 PM
Location: The Output, Video Pool Media Arts Centre, #300 – 100 Arthur St.
'Halmang' revolves around a group of eight women in their 70s and 80s. It is filmed by the coast of Jeju Island near a lava rock islet that used to serve as a shamanic shrine for the wind goddess Yongdeung Halmang. The women, who have worked and made a living together for most their lives as haenyeo sea divers, used to depart together for the sea from this very location.
The film portrays the ageing women’s lived experience, their community and spirituality connected to the sea, the wind and the island. Central to the work is its focus on the collective use and care for sochang; a white, long cotton cloth associated with female labor and a symbol of cycle of life and death and humans’ connection to the spirit world.
Born in 1980 in Jeju, Republic of Korea, Jane Jin Kaisen moved to Denmark as a child; she is still based there, dividing her time between Copenhagen and Berlin. Nourished by a long and detailed research phase, ranging from the exploration of archives and literary texts to her own collection of images and sounds, Kaisen looks at rites as the wellspring from which collective and individual memory draw their source. In her work, she explores how the individual memory of lost stories intersects with the larger history of Korea, marked by war, migration, and battles on the border. Kaisen engages with female Korean shamanism as an ethics and aesthetics of memory and as mutual recognition across time and space.
Check out the ? link in our bio to learn more about 'Halmang', Jane Jin Kaisen, and 'A Place of Memory: Contexts of Existence' curated by Irene Campolmi!
This program is co-hosted with Gallery TPW
? : Video still 'Halmang' Image courtesy of the artist
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Where is it happening?
Video Pool Media Arts Centre, 100 Arthur St # 300,Winnipeg, Manitoba, CanadaEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
