WRITING
"Hardly War" is Don Mee Choi's second collection of poems and the first part of a trilogy. Defying history, national identity, and militarism, and using artifacts from her father, a professional photographer during the Korean and Vietnam wars, Choi combines memoir, image, and opera to explore her paternal relationship and heritage. Here poetry and geopolitics are inseparable twin sisters, conjoined to the belly of a warring empire.
No. 2–3 2022 of the magazine "Ord&bild", was published as an episode of the exhibition project "TV Trampoline". Along with the artists who were part of the exhibitions, writers and critics were invited to address issues related to children's culture, politics, and television.
The title section of Kim Hyesoon’s book "Autobiography of Death," consists of forty-nine poems, each poem representing a single day during which the spirit roams after death before it enters the cycle of reincarnation. The poems give voice to those who met unjust deaths during Korea’s violent contemporary history, but they also unveil what Kim calls “the structure of death, that we remain living in.” In this sea of mirrors, the plural “you” speaks as a body of multitudes that has been beaten, bombed, and buried many times over by history.
"Зверек-коробка" is a story based on Eduard Uspensky’s children’s book character Cheburashka, most famous through a series of short films made at the Soviet animation studio Sojuzmultfilm (1969–1983). In the first of these films Cheburashka meets a crocodile called Gena and together with other lonely animals they build a House of Friendship. In "Зверек-коробка" the House of Friendship is dilapidated and the Cheburashka seeks refuge in a cardboard box.
"Television Without Frontiers" revolves around a TV experiment titled Eurikon, realized in 1982 in an effort to explore the possibility of developing a public service channel spanning the entirety of Western Europe and the Mediterranean region. The outset of the investigation is that Eurikon marks a significant shift in geopolitical media politics, where national boundaries of broadcast media in Europe began to dissolve. The legitimacy of liberal democracy to a large extent rests on notions of a cohesive public sphere, simultaneity, and a delimited geographical continuum defined by national culture and common language. Through a critical investigations of translation, community, and the role and status of the spectator, the argument of this dissertation is that changes in these conditions have led to a crisis of legitimacy of European liberal democracy.
No. 1 2017 of the magazine "Ord&bild", was an investigation of contemporary bureaucracy and and of the perception of bureaucracy.
Along with the performance of "1985 – Monument to a Revolution", this libretto was published, containing stories and accounts of the scenes that were staged. It is a story about a journey to a villa on Värmdö in the Stockholm archipelago, a property that was acquired by Riksbanken (The Central Bank of Sweden) in 1968. The villa was a gift to the bank employees as part of the celebration of the bank's 300th anniversary.