Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Museum and the Online Archive of California
Creator Name:
Cha, Theresa Hak Kyung
Title:
Other Things Seen, Other Things Heard (slides)
Collection Title Date:
1971-1991
Date:
1978
Materials:
37 black and white slides.
Dimensions:
w1.5 x h1 inches
Current Location:
Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive
Address:
Berkeley, CA 94720
Object ID:
1992.4.227
Provenance:
Gift of the Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Memorial Foundation
Object Type:
Documentation
Heading:
Description
Notes:
37 slides possibly rejected by Cha for her performance "Other Things Seen, Other Things Heard." The images on some slides are very light. Handwritten in blue pen on 16 slides is either "Theresa Hak Kyung Cha/ 6450 1/2 Colby Oak 94618" or "Theresa Hak Kyung Cha". The slides labeled in blue pen are also numbered in blue pen 2-16.
Notes:
See museum# 1992.4.99/100/101/10 2/103/106/107/108/10 9/110/221/222/461/54 8
Notes:
The floor at one end was covered in sandy powder. Two slide and one film projector cast grainy black and white images of beaches and rocks on the end wall. Recorded voices solemnly intoned meaningful existential questions like Hamlet. The sound tracks began to overlap until it was impossible to focus on the words. Cha appeared in front of the photographed images. She sat meditatively. She dragged ropes tied to rocks with labels like "abandoned" stencilled on them. The same rocks were seen on film. By this time, I felt hypnotized". (Robert Atkins, Bay Guardian, unpublished review, 1978).
Notes:
The slides Cha possibly projected during the performance are museum# 1992.4.106/107/108/1 09/110.
Collection Description:
METS ID:
ark:/13030/tf467n99m j

Other Things Seen, Other Things Heard (slides)