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Re Dis Appearing 再．消．現
1977
Incorporating French and English, Re Dis Appearing highlights the multilingual aspects of Korean-born artist, writer, and performer Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s work and identity. The video records Cha’s hands as she places a transparent bowl of tea onto a black surface before removing the bowl from the frame moments later. The images of the bowl appear and disappear, sometimes fading from view, and sometimes melding with still images of the ocean that move in and out of visibility. Overlapping, echoing phrases in English and French, spoken by Cha, complement the watery, ambiguous images. Cha's highly conceptual moving image work addresses questions of language, displacement, and loss. Her practice was heavily informed by French psychoanalytic film theory, concrete poetry, Korean cultural traditions, Confucianism, and Catholicism. This wide range of influences reflects her Korean American background as well as her decade of academic training in the United States and France.
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