Representative work by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
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Artist

Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

1951–1982 · Korean-American

  • University of California, Berkeley

Theresa Hak Kyung Cha created performances, videos, artist books and texts around language, migration, memory and the fractured experience of diaspora. Her 1982 book Dictee became one of the most influential hybrid works of late twentieth-century art and literature.

Performance; video; book art; writing

Artist Films

Major Works

  • 1982Dictee
  • 1975Mouth to Mouth
  • 1976Permutations
  • 1977Re Dis Appearing
  • 1975Aveugle Voix
  • 1980Exilée
  • 1977Audience Distant Relative
  • 1978Passages Paysages
  • 1980White Dust from Mongolia
  • 1976Videoème

Interviews & Writing

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