Although the text gained renewed critical attention in the nineties, Cha ’s moving image work remains less known, perhaps because much of it exists solely in fragments, in sketches of work left unfinished and in photographs of performances and installation projects. In the wake of her murder, Cha ’s experimental novel Dictee (1982), now widely considered her masterpiece, quickly went out of circulation. Beneath the image are the words étudiante en cinéma – student of cinema. A razorblade in her right hand, Cha is poised to manually edit the tape by splicing it together. The two monitors at her back faintly display images from her 1978 video installation ‘Passages Paysages’. 1 Cha sits at a small table in a cramped studio, bent over spools of videotape wound on an editing machine. This essay appears in Another Gaze 05 which you can preorder here.Ī rare image of the Korean-American artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha at work appears in an out-of-print memorial book, published by her family and friends in November 1983, one year after the 31-year-old artist was raped and murdered by serial offender Joseph Sanza.
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