Woman + Body
Korea 
2012
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Woman + Body explored the range of sexual identification - female, transgender, and male - with a contemporary, 21st century view. The subject of the female body was a focus of  the 1960's in the US and produced many discourses in the 90's, related to such issues as AIDS, cosmetic surgery, stereotyping and discrimination.This exhibition sought works by women that explore the human body from the following perspectives: 
1) Woman's Body as Subject: unabashed exploration of women's bodies and women's desires- unaltered, unadulterated images that set a new standard of beauty. 
2) Transformation and Crossover: Bodies altered through cosmetics, cosmetic surgery, tattoos, sex change, cross dressing, costuming and other means to achieve a metamorphosis. 
3) Man's Body as Subject: a woman's view of the male body - affectionate, lustful, critical, envious. 

Hye-Seong Tak Lee, a Korean WCA Member-At-Large, independent curator, artist and lecturer at Gwangju University, initially proposed this collaboration between WCA artists and Korean women artists for October 2012 when she attended the WCA Annual Conference in Los Angeles in February 2012. Many thanks go to Priscilla Otani (WCA president), Karen Gutfreund (WCA National Exhibitions Director), Ms. Lee (Gwangju Cultural Foundation) and Sherri Cornett (WCA International Caucus Chair and Woman + Body Exhibition Co-Director) for making this exhibition happen under a short timeline and with many challenges.  This was a unique opportunity for WCA members to participate in an international women art and activism exhibition.  

Woman + Body Exhibition Video

Dates/Location
Kepco Art Center Gallery
October 13-19, 2012
Seoul, Republic of Korea

MediaCube 338
October 23-November 6, 2012
Gwagju, Republic of Korea

Photos

Kepco Art Center Gallery building

Jung Jungyeob, winner of Sheri Klein's "What Women Say and Think About Their Bodies"

Artworks by Tracy Brown, Trix Rosen and Krista Jiannacopoulos at MediaCube 338

Artworks by Byun Hyun Soo, Min Kyung Kwon, Patricia Tinajero, Juyeon Kim, Pamela Flynn, Ryu Jun Hwa and Priscilla Otani at MediaCube 338

Skin Muscle Sinew video by Sherri Cornett at MediaCube 338

Paintings by Lee, Juree and video by C.M. Judge and Paula Rendino Zaentz at MediaCube 338

Juyeon Kim's Yisook at MediaCube 338

Signage at Kepco Art Center Gallery

Collage of works by WCA artists for Woman + body

Entrance to Gwangju Cultural Foundation's Media Cube 338, venue for Woman + Body in Gwangju Artwork by Yun Suknam. (photograph by Priscilla Otani)

Artworks by Mary Shisler, , Sandra Mueller, Lee Rim and Chanel Govreau at MediaCube 338

Artworks by Lee, ja yeon, C.M Judge & Paula Rendino Zaentz, YOU Hyeonkyeong, NANDA at MediaCube 338

Ann Rowles' Mix and Match

Woman + Body at Kepco Art Center Gallery

Winner of Laurie Edison's photographs "Kellan McCracken" and Jerry Kellan McCracken"

Woman + Body at Gwangju Cultural Foundation's Media Cube 338

Brenda Oelbaum's work at Media Cube 338

Art works by Ann Rowles and others at Woman + Body at MediaCube 338

Photographs by Park Youngsook, video by Yoon, Sung Hee, sculpture by Yun, Suknam at MediaCube 338

Eunju KIM's life-sized graphite piece

Setting up videos for Woman + Body at Kepco Art Center Gallery

Winner of Laurie Edison's photograph "Marlene Hoeber"

C.J. Judge and Paula Rendino Zaentz' video On Mine Hands, On Thine Hands at Media Cube 338

Artwork from NANDA, Eunju KIM, Hayoung Joo at MediaCube 338

Artworks by Karen Purdy, Jessica Burke, Laurie Edison at MediaCube 338

Yun, Suknam's work

Juror and Artists

Juror
Tanya Augsburg is a feminist interdisciplinary performance scholar who specializes in contemporary art and performance. Dr. Augsburg has been teaching at San Francisco State University since 2007, where she is Assistant Professor of Liberal Studies in the areas of the Creative Arts and Humanities. Most recently, she was the Juror/Editor and on the Curatorial Committee of WCA's Man as Object: Reversing the Gaze. She is curator of Joanna Frueh: A Retrospective, which was held at the Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno, in 2005, and editor of the accompanying exhibition catalog of the same title (2005). She is author of Becoming Interdisciplinary: An Introduction to Interdisciplinary Studies,2nd Ed. (Kendall/Hunt, 2006) and co-editor of The Politics of Interdisciplinary Studies (McFarland, 2009). Other publications have appeared in The Drama Review: 'The Journal of Performance Studies';Text and Performance Quarterly; Issues in Integrative Studies; n.paradoxa: 'International Feminist Art Journal'; and Critical Matrix: 'The Princeton Journal of Women, Gender and Culture.' Her most recent research examines feminist art and collaborative art practices. 

WCA Artists Included in Woman + Body
Curated Works:

• Chanel Govreau, "Queen Gidrea Family Armor"
• C.M. Judge and Paula Rendino Zaentz, "On Mine Hands, On Thine Hands"
• Brenda Oelbaum, "The Willendorf Project" and "Results May Vary"
• Priscilla Otani, "All Dolled Up"
• Karen Purdy, "Captain Underpants"
  
• Trix Rosen, "Beyond XY - Inside the Abandoned Falstaff Brewery, No. 

Juried Works:

• Ann Rowles, "Mix and Match"
• Elaine Alibrandi, "I Have the Fee in Here Somewhere"
• Jessica Burke, "She Wishes It Was True"
• Krista Jiannacopoulos, "The Breast of a Man" and "Man's Hairy Breast and Nipple"
• Laurie Edison, "Marlene Hoeber", "Jerry Kellan McCracken", and "Kellan McCracken"
• Lee Lee, "Cradle"
• Mary Shisler, "Aphrodite's Walk"
• Pamela Flynn, "Fetish #3"
• Patricia Tinajero, "What Women Want"
• Sandra Mueller, "Venus Swirls"
• Sheri Klein, "What Women Say and Think About Their Bodies"
• Sherri Cornett, "Skin Muscle Sinew"
• Tracy Brown, "Macho Metal Culture"

Korean Artists Included in Woman + Body

• Yun Suknam
  
• Park Youngsook
  
• Jung Jungyeob
  
• Min Kyung Kwon
  
• Lee Ju Ree
  
• Lee, ja yeon
  
• Kim Min Hyung
  
• NANDA
  
• Ryu Jun Hwa
  
• YOU Hyeonkyeong
  
• Jueon Kim
  
• Byun Hyun Soo
  
• Lee R I'm
  
• Yoon, Sung Hee
  
• Eunju Kim
  
• Miru Kim
  
• Hayoung Joo

Press
Press and Blogs
The Asia Cultural Complex blog
http://blog.naver.com/cultureasia?Redirect=Log&logNo=40172308068&from=postView

Laurie Edison, whose photographs were included in Woman + Body, has written about the exhibition in her feminist blog Body Impolitic. Her first post can be read here
http://laurietobyedison.com/discuss/?p=8376#comment-1329759

Laurie Edison's second blog about Woman + Body, focusing on the Korean artists
http://laurietobyedison.com/discuss/?p=8643

Laurie Edison's blog reposted on Feminista
http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2012/10/23/photographs-in-international-feminist-exhibition-in-korea/

ArtNews
http://artnews.me/?p=14164

ArtSum
http://www.artsum.co.kr/ex_detail.php?num=888

WomanCS
http://www.womancs.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=4590

Monthly Photo.com
http://www.monthlyphoto.com/news/exhibition_view.asp?seqs=2827&page=1

Homae
http://press.honammaeil.co.kr/newsRead.php?no=657500

Economic Post
http://www.economicpost.co.kr/bbs/board.php?bo_table=artist&wr_id=100

Design Sori
http://designsori.com/exh/414003


Photo.co.kr
http://www.photo.co.kr/news/view.php?w_seq=237&kind_code=10

NToday
http://www.ntoday.co.kr/atc/view.asp?P_Index=2122

4x4 News Korea
http://www.4x4.co.kr/detail.php?number=1687&thread=34r02

International Korean Business Centre
http://www.ikbc.net/news/view.html?smode=&skey=macho+metal+culture&x=0&y=0&section=1&category=5&no=48713

ChosunBiz
http://biz.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2012/10/16/2012101602151.html

ACROFAN - The Contents Agent Group
http://www.acrofan.com/ko-kr/life/news/?mode=view&cate=02&seq=36223&wd=20121015&ucode=00000046&page=2

News1 Korea
http://news1.kr/articles/854576

News Hankuk
http://www.newshankuk.com/news/content.asp?fs=1&ss=4&news_idx=201210161447521267

Energy Daily
http://energydaily.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=39358

Yahoo! Korea
http://kr.news.yahoo.com/service/news/shellview.htm?linkid=463&articleid=20121015172600756b3&newssetid=5

Chinca 
A magazine styled blog created, written and curated by English-speakers living in South Korea focusing on on event previews, reviews, and Korea-based photography, art and music.
http://chincha.co.uk/2012/10/events-korea-october/

Korean Press Agency
http://www.koreapressagency.com/news/view.html?skey=%BA%B8%B5&section=1&category=7&no=72256

JoinsMSN
http://article.joinsmsn.com/news/article/article.asp?total_id=9736650

News Nocut
http://press.cbs.co.kr/newsRead.php?no=657500


Koreaen.co.kr
http://www.koreaen.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=29684

iPhos webzine
http://webzine.iphos.co.kr/webzine/news/exhibition_view.asp?ins_no=4417&newsartist_

ETNews Korea
http://www.etnews.com/list/press_view.html?id=0657500

Coca News
http://cocanews.com/?doc=news/read.htm&ns_id=19386

Korea Media United News
http://www.kmunews.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=582

ArtGuide Korea
http://daljin.com/?WS=21&BC=gdv&GNO=D003287&sfl=&stx=&date=201210&tab=&area=&cate=&genre=&kind=

Other Information

WCA Members Only from the U.S.
We made a decision early on to offer this show to WCA members only on the U.S. side (current members as well as women who joined WCA by July 1st)- as a way to thank our members in advance for supporting this exciting opportunity and as acknowledgement that this first international exhibition in many years asked more of applicants (self-shipping, short time frame) than we hope to ask in the future. Self-identified women can find out more about WCA on the WCA website http://www.nationalwca.org and join WCA online via http://www.nationalwca.org/applicants/application.php

Catalogs
Bilingual catalogs were printed by the Gwangju Cultural Foundation in South Korea. ISBN#978-0-9831702-5-9

Shipping
All shipping was done through Fedex by individual artists. All necessary documentation for shipping internationally was handled by the artists, who were advised to mark the boxes with "gift-no value" or "no commercial value, for cultural exchange purposes only", to avoid tariffs.

Printing Photographs in Korea
Ms. Lee arranged for photographs to be printed in Korea. If printed in Korea, works were destroyed after the closing of the final exhibition in Gwangju, unless arrangements were made to ship the works back to the artist. Destruction of art work protects copyrights and prevents unauthorized use of the art work.