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Hong Kal

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Hong Kal
Associate Professor, Department of Visual Arts, York University
E-mail: hongkal@yorku.ca

Hong Kal teaches art and visual culture of Korea and East Asia. Her current research explores artistic intervention in urban redevelopment and affective visual images and trauma in community South Korea. She is the author of Aesthetic Constructions of Korean Nationalism: Spectacle, Politics and History (Routledge, 2011).

Keywords: Spectacle and urban redevelopment; socially engaged art practices; community art; affective visual images; representation of trauma; South Korea

Upcoming Events

Nov
1
Fri
1:00 pm From the 2019 Hong Kong Protests... @ Accolade West Building and Victor Phillip Dahdaleh Building
From the 2019 Hong Kong Protests... @ Accolade West Building and Victor Phillip Dahdaleh Building
Nov 1 @ 1:00 pm – Dec 16 @ 8:00 pm
From the 2019 Hong Kong Protests to the World’s Tomorrow: The Power of Disobedience, Discourse and Creative Dissent @ Accolade West Building and Victor Phillip Dahdaleh Building
This series will feature six events from Friday, 8 November to Monday, 16 December 2019. (1) Political cartoon show by Zunzi Hong Kong. Now What? [...]
Nov
20
Wed
9:00 am Graphic Design Exhibit || Graphi... @ Fourth Floor Corridor, Department of Design, Victor Phillip Dahdaleh Building, Keele Campus
Graphic Design Exhibit || Graphi... @ Fourth Floor Corridor, Department of Design, Victor Phillip Dahdaleh Building, Keele Campus
Nov 20 @ 9:00 am – Dec 16 @ 5:00 pm
Graphic Design Exhibit || Graphic Design Tactics for Civil Movements: The 2019 Hong Kong Protests @ Fourth Floor Corridor, Department of Design, Victor Phillip Dahdaleh Building, Keele Campus
Drawing on tactics employed in protests in the past 10 years, including the 2014 Umbrella Movement (Hong Kong) and the 2011 Occupy Wall Street (United [...]
Jan
14
Tue
2:00 pm Language, Identity and Heritage ... @ Room 519, Fifth Floor, Kaneff Tower
Language, Identity and Heritage ... @ Room 519, Fifth Floor, Kaneff Tower
Jan 14 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Language, Identity and Heritage Preservation in Singapore and Vancouver @ Room 519, Fifth Floor, Kaneff Tower
Join the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada (APF Canada) and the York Centre for Asian Research (YCAR) as we discuss the efforts to preserve Chinese [...]
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