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Introduction |
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This study is aimed at establishing a visual archive of modern East Asian corporal language and at creating a cultural map. In order to achieve this goal, this research has been conducted in three steps: First, this study has defined performing arts, visual arts, corporal language, and so forth as the core areas of research where East Asian corporal language can be expressed, and then has gathered in diverse ways the visual raw materials – such as paintings, prints, photographs, and films – that had been expressed and recorded through a variety of media. Second, this study has systematically built a database depending on the type, structure, history, meaning, and practice of modern East Asian corporal language, based on the humanities-based integrated methodology utilizing the adjacent studies of video information and video culture. Third, this study has created a cultural map of modern East Asian body language on the basis of the work in order to help contribute to the research the cultural anthropological identity of “embodied modernity” in modern East Asia.
Most of all, this study has attempted to establish primary data with which we can compare the modifications of the imaginary order manifested in corporal representation, based on visual materials that had been produced in the process of modernization in East Asia for 100 years, i.e. from the 1850s that witnessed such iconic events as the Meiji Restoration in Japan in 1868, the Opium War in 1894, the proclamation of the Korean Empire in 1897 – which showed how were the three East Asian countries incorporated into the modern world order – to the 1960s that heralded the end of the imperialist world order with the end of the Second World War.
The three core topics for research break down into: 1) performing arts, such as drama and dance that are based corporal motions; 2) visual arts such as paintings, sculptures, and photographs aimed at re-presenting body image; and 3) film arts centering around documentaries, video materials, and movies. Researchers with diverse academic backgrounds ranging from drama, dance, aesthetics, and film studies to linguistics, media studies, East Asian regional studies, and video information have gathered and selected visual raw materials in their respective domains.
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Project Name : Visual Archive and Cultural Map for the Corporal Language in the Modern Era of East-Asia |
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Research Title : Visual Archive and Cultural Map for the Corporal Language in the Modern Era of East-Asia
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Chief of Research : Shin Jiyoung
Research Institution : Korea University
Research Period : 3 Years (November 1, 2011 – October 31, 2014)
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