Film Screening and Curator Talk

Lawrence Rinder on Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
Thursday, November 17, 2016

Lawrence Rinder, Director and Chief Curator of Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, has curated and written extensively about the work of Korean-American avant-garde artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, who engaged with notions of identity and displacement.  She created a small but mature body of work before her death in 1982. In this lecture, Rinder discusses her multi-disciplinary practice and screened some of the artist’s short films.

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