Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

This is a Korean name; the family name is Cha.

Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
Hangul	차학경
Hanja	車學慶
Revised Romanization	Cha Hak-gyeong
McCune–Reischauer	Ch'a Hak-kyŏng

Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (March 4, 1951 — November 5, 1982) was an Korean American novelist and artist most famous for her 1982 work, Dictee.

She was born in Busan, Korea during the Korean War. Her family eventually moved to the United States and settled in California. She received her B.A. and M.A. in Comparative Literature and an M.F.A.from the University of California, Berkeley. After leaving university, she moved to Paris where she studied filmmaking and critical theory before returning to the Bay Area as a filmmaker and performance artist. Cha's interdisciplinary background is clearly evident in Dictee which experiments with juxtaposition and hypertext of both print and visual media.

Cha was raped and murdered by Joey Sanza in New York City a week after the publication of Dictee.

Published works

• Dictee - 1982
• The Dream of the Audience - 2001
• Exilée and Temps Morts: Selected Works - 2009
• Exilée and Temps Morts: Selected works - 2009

Film/video works

Selected works distributed by Electronic Arts Intermix, Inc., New York [1]

• Secret Spill (1974) 27 min., b&w, sound
• Mouth to Mouth (1975) 8 min., b&w, sound
• Permutations (1976) 10 min., b&w, sound
• Vidéoème (1976) 3 min., b&w, sound
• Re Dis Appearing (1977) 3 min., b&w, sound

Performances

• Barren Cave Mute (1974), at the University of California, Berkeley.
• Aveugle Voix (1975), at 63 Bluxome Street, San Francisco.
• A Ble Wail (1975), at Worth Ryder Gallery, University of California, Berkeley.
• Life Mixing (1975), at University Art Museum, Berkeley.
• Vampyr (1976), at Centre des etudes americains du cinema, Paris.
• Reveille dans la Brume (1977), at La Mamelle Arts Center and Fort Mason Arts Center, San Francisco.
• Other Things Seen. Other Things Heard (1978), at Western Front Gallery, Vancouver, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

External links

• Works by or about Theresa Hak Kyung Cha in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
• "The Dream of the Audience: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (1951–1982)" Exhibition Review
• Voices From the Gaps biography
• Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Bronx Museum of the Arts - Reviews: New York
• Theresa Hak Kyung Cha at SF Cinematheque: To See, Empty
• The Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Archive at the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive, University of California Berkeley
• Guide to the Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Collection 1971-1991
• The Dream of the Audience: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha documentary film project