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