Kim Sangdon Project
(last edited: 2018)
author(s): Duke Choi
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
Kim Sangdon (b. 1901-1986) is a historical Korean activist and political figure. This is an archive that was constructed through independent artistic research and proposes as a long-term initiative to actualize methodologies to present to the public.
Institutionally, the history of his activities are either edited or nonexistent. Numerous applications to acknowledge this research have been widely denied by the South Korean government, largely due to the opposition nature toward former dictatorships and a restriction to fund anything political.
An outreach by a community organization known as the Korean Resource Center in Los Angeles recognized the preservation of this history as their own and invited the project to be presented. To be effective an 8-channel installation was implemented for a linear timeline while each channel is an own singular research narrative in order to better understand and spend time the in-depth material.