Gijichon: Collecting Fragments

From Rhizome Artbase
2020
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Content warning: audio descriptions of sexual violence affecting sex workers in Korea.

Rhizome staff
2022

Gijichon refers to the camptowns that have surrounded U.S. military bases in South Korea since the Korean War (1950–1953), which have also been the sites of institutionalized prostitution for American soldiers. Gijichon Catching Collecting Fragments threads together written text (narrative poem), visual text (images of gijichon), and spoken text (academic research) to create a polyphonic portrait of gijichon, demonstrating the apparent fragmentedness and elusiveness of that history.

Heeyeon Kil, Faris Kassim
2021
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Variant History
outside link
2021
Heeyeon Kil, Faris Kassim
web archive
6 December 2021
web capture
Rhizome staff