Hearts of Pine: Songs in the Lives of Three Korean Survivors of the Japanese “Comfort Women.”

Abstract

While research and activism associated with the "comfort women" have prompted more awareness of the Japanese system of military sexual slavery that took place during the Asia-Pacific War (1931-45), this does not erase the fact that most Korean survivors of this system had to endure four decades of silence with little public acknowledgment or support. In Hearts of Pine: Songs in the Lives of Three Korean Survivors of the Japanese "Comfort Women, " Joshua D.

New Materials: Natural Elements and the Body in Screendance

“…In other words, whereas site-specific art used to mean that the tangible physical work could not exist in any other place and would risk being destroyed if moved (as in the sculptures of Richard Serra and Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty), its definition has since shifted towards "site as predominantly an intertextually coordinated, multiply located, discursive field of operation." 18 What Kwon calls an intertextual relationship is in fact a complex, at times less visible, link to landscape. She informs us that in "art practices of the past thirty years the operative definition of the site has been transformed from a physical location-grounded, fixed, actual-to a discursive vector-ungrounded, fluid, virtual."…”