During her time there, Cha studied French language, and French, Greek, and Roman classics. Ĭha and her family emigrated to the United States in 1962 when Cha was twelve years old, first settling in Hawaii and then relocating in 1964 to the San Francisco Bay Area, where she attended Convent of the Sacred Heart High School. She was the middle child of five, with two older and two younger siblings, to Hyung Sang Cha (father) and Hyung Soon Cha (mother), who were both raised in Manchuria during Japan’s occupation of Korea and China, and forced to learn and work in Japanese. Cha's Dictée is frequently taught in contemporary literature classes including women's literature.Ĭha was born in Busan, South Korea during the Korean War. Cha's interdisciplinary background was clearly evident in Dictée, which experiments with juxtaposition and hypertext of both print and visual media. The main body of Cha's work is "looking for the roots of language before it is born on the tip of the tongue." Cha's practice experiments with language through repetition, manipulation, reduction, and isolation, exploring the ways in which language marks one's identity, in unstable and multiple expressions. Considered an avant-garde artist, Cha was fluent in Korean, English, and French. w8.Theresa Hak Kyung Cha ( Korean: 차학경 Ma– November 5, 1982) was an American novelist, producer, director, and artist of South Korean origin, best known for her 1982 novel, Dictée.
page sequence, silences, pauses, time, space." (Statement of Proposed Study, Holland).įormat Artist book Artist book. By "using written text and images.through actual material or structure of the book i.e. The text is in French and English.Ĭha's concern is "grammatical structure of language syntax," "how words and meanings are constructed in language system, by function and usage," how transformation is brought about through manipulation, changing syntax, isolation, removing from context, repetition and reduction to minimal units." The artist book is a medium by which she can explore and uncover these concerns. This version is the text from the first version of "Earth" 1973 with additional text. Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.ĭescription "Earth" was first created as an artist book by Cha in 1973. Publication Information Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archiveīerkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film ArchiveĬollection Art Collection Highlights - Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
Title Earth Creator Cha, Theresa Hak Kyung
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