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Dictee by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha6/1/2023 ![]() ![]() Cha, photograph by Benjamin Blackwell, courtesy BAMPF Permutations (1976), 16mm film, still, courtesy BAMPFA. Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, from top: Cha’s hands on her typewriter, 1981, photograph by James Cha It Is Almost That, 1977 (detail) white press-type letters and white pastel on nineteen sheets of black paper, University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, gift of the Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Memorial Foundation, 1992 Dictee, image courtesy and © University of California Press Surplus Novel, 1980, porcelain jar, with typewritten text on paper, collection of James H. ![]() THERESA HAK KYUNG CHA’S DICTEE-A MARATHON READING Cha (who is Theresa’s brother), author and UC Irvine professor Laura Hyun Yi Kang, and curator and scholar Lawrence Rinder.Ī reception will follow. Kim, and Holly Willis, and a short talk- Apropos of Theresa-with writer and translator John H. Artists Space mounted a show to honor the publication of Dictée in the year following her death. Since her death, galleries and museums have told Cha’s story with exhibitions of her work. Cha died from an act of racialized, gender-based violence in 1982. The program will include a presentation of Cha’s artwork, introductory remarks by Yong Soon Min, Ellie Lee, Annette M. In Dictée, Cha prophetically wrote: Until then. This weekend, GYOPO and USC present an afternoon devoted to a durational reading of DICTEE, the magnum opus by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (1951–1982). ![]()
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