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News!
I am 34th times married (16 states remain out of 50)! Yes, it
is true. This time, I even married a black angus cattle from Nebraska.
To learn more about my road trip this summer, 2008: PLEASE JOIN
ME FOR THE SOLO SHOW, A LIVE PERFORMANCE
ON STAGE SCHEDULED AT THE RECITAL HALL, Henry Street Setttlement:
Sept 18th, 19th and 20th, 2008!
This performance will be collaborated with one of the directors
from the Blue
Man Group,
Sara Shives and with LIVE music which will be performed/improvised
by Sun-Young Park.
Please check back for the details.
To view my last year's wedding please
visit this site: http://www.nanomajority.com/
On June 18th, 2008, I had my very
first premiere screening of Maria the Korean Bride, short documentary
click
here to view PHOTOS from the event.
Maria the Korean Bride is fiscally sponsored project
of the Lower Manhattan
Cultural Council and an on-going multi-media performance designed
to bring attention to the social pressure and ostracism that I
have endured as a first generation Korean-American unmarried woman.
Korea is a small country steeped in many traditions. Its people
are proud of their hard fought heritage, divided by communism
to the North and still coming to terms with Japan’s brutal
thirty-six years occupation in the early part of the 20th Century.
Its people are protective of its rapidly fading ethnic purity
and culture. Its male dominated society has for countless generations
insisted on arranged marriages with strict adherence to both ethnicity
and class. It may seem to Western eyes as somewhat outdated cultural
mores but for many Korean American women, marriage has often meant
choosing between families and following their hearts.
Maria the Korean Bride challenges and explores what
marriage is as I document my cross-country journey as a forever
Korean bride in my Korean bridal garb. It includes my random marriage
proposals, interviews with various participants and mock wedding
ceremonial performances with them. When
complete, Maria the Korean Bride will be a feature documentary
including highlights from most of the fifty states where these
marriages take place.
Additionally, Maria the Korean Bride has also been formatted
and memorialized as a collector’s
set of playing cards representing all 50 states plus Puerto Rico
and the US Virgin Islands. This
series of work is also in the collection of the following institutions:
Temple University, University of Chicago, Museum of Modern Art,
Wellesley College, Haverford College, Scripps College, Smith College,
Otis College of Art and Design.
Interested in participating or you think you can help?
Please write me.
I usually start planning in May and travel in July.
Note: Your participation should not take no more than an hour.
There is no script to remember only your vows if any for the GROOMS
to be. All wedding crashers welcome!
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