I will definitely write more about it as I develop the performance and the ideas. I don't foresee it being something solid for at least a year because there's a lot that will have to go into it (like needing to find someone who plays 가야금 to help me compose the musical progression of what I'm trying to get across. Hehe.) But I have a working title and a date (month and day at least) that I want to perform it.
One of the things that I'm curious about is the time when my father's side of the family was displaced to Manchuria during the occupation (how my father ended up being born in China rather than Korea)--yet another way in which that cultural fluidity is marked in our family histories.
Indeed! I'm curious to know how that displacement has affected your family's sense of how they relate to culture.
My grandfather died a year before I was born, so I never got the chance to ask him about what his life was like during that period. I know that his older brother and some of his uncles were displaced to Manchuria, but somehow he ended up staying. I was never close enough with my great uncle to really ask him about it, and he isn't the type of person to really divulge.
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Date: 2011-05-02 08:31 pm (UTC)One of the things that I'm curious about is the time when my father's side of the family was displaced to Manchuria during the occupation (how my father ended up being born in China rather than Korea)--yet another way in which that cultural fluidity is marked in our family histories.
Indeed! I'm curious to know how that displacement has affected your family's sense of how they relate to culture.
My grandfather died a year before I was born, so I never got the chance to ask him about what his life was like during that period. I know that his older brother and some of his uncles were displaced to Manchuria, but somehow he ended up staying. I was never close enough with my great uncle to really ask him about it, and he isn't the type of person to really divulge.