1. Introduction
1) What is your research question: “How can….?”
How can Korean middle aged women(“Azumma”)’s creativity and experience using their traditional “woman-like” tools and own everyday activities have values in institutional arts?
*middle aged women: from 40 to 59
*traditional woman-like tools: needle and thread.
*those activities: stitching, knitting, embroidery…
2) What is your project about?
-Questioning to the established art system who decide what is the art itself and whom missed from it.
-Finding a critical way to promote more women in arts, and more arts in women’s life, especially in Korea.
3) Background to the project
-Woman’s life and history
-Feminism Arts: Tracey Emin, Louise Bourgeois, kimsooja, Haegue Yang (Korean)
-Korean tradition
-Craft and Art
4) Positionality (7 women team, 8 women participants)
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-Race: East Asian “Yellow”
-Ethnicity: Korean/Mixed Korean/Mixed European
-Religion: Various/Traditional Local Mythology/Shamanism
-Language: Korean/English/Japanese/German
-Heritage/History: “Gyubang Gongye(Zenana Craft, Women’s Craft)” in Korea, Women’s Life History, Oral History
-Immigration Status: Various/Nomad(2), Sedentary in Korea(5)
-Gender: All Female
-Family Status: Various/Married/Divorced/Unmarried/Separated/Only Women Family(Mother-Daughters)
-Income: Various/Middle-Upper Middle-High
-Aboriginality: N/A
-Ability: Various/One Wheelchair User
-Geographic Location: Various(Korea/UK/German)
-Age: 40+ (One daughter is in her 10s)
-Sexuality: Various/Straight/Not want to say
-Occupation: Various/House Wife/After School Tutor/NASA cooperated Researcher/University Instructor
-Education: Various/College Graduated-PhD
2. Methodology
1) Your secondary research: literature review, your bibliography of resources
*Feminism & Gender Studies
-“Intersectionality”
-Black Women in Arts: Situation, Strategies, Movements…
-Asian Women in Arts
(*See the Reference Posting)
What research methods did you use and what data did you gather? Qualitative? Quantitative?
-Qualitative.
Describe in detail your action research process of iterative external testing and intervention.
-Interviews.
-Descriptive/Narrative.
-Curation of an Exhibition at an Established Art Gallery in Korea (or UK).
-Creating and Co-creating artworks.
3. Reflection and Analysis
1) What did you learn?
-Personal: Realised Myself of Underestimating Habits to the “Women Things” in Everyday Life.
eg. I had never cooked for my husband (sometimes did only for kids and guests), hand washed dishes, ironed his shirts, sewed or knitted for anybody before moving to UK since 2019. I avoided every works of women in purpose.
-Professional: Realised Myself of Underestimating Habits to the “Women’s Works” in Art as well.
eg. Harsh Critics on Soungui Kim’s “Saekdong(Traditional colour bands like rainbow, especially applying to “Hanbok”, the Traditional Clothings.) as Lazy Works compared to Nam June Paik, the Genius, or the Father of the Video Art.
2) Where did you fail?
3) What feedback did you receive?
4) Where did you succeed?
5) What types of analysis are you using: e.g. thematic analysis
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4. Conclusion
1) What are your overall findings?
-Women Can Use their everyday Experiences and own Knowledge of stitching, sewing, and knitting by tradition as Creative Tools for the Arts itself.
-Women Can Show their own Expressions, Thoughts, and Opinions and Share them with other Women. And also Can Embrace their own and other women’s Failures, Errors, and Wounds. It also helpful for making a Better World.
-Art is purposing…
-But established institutional art have ignored their artistic abilities and do not open the same opportunities to them for a conversation.
2) What are your learning edges?
-Recognising my Gender Bias and Underestimation on Arts and Woman Things, even I am a Feminist myself, by One-to-One with Tutor (Cai).
3) What will be your future actions?
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Why do you do this?
What hurts you, move you, excited you?
Shocking, Amusing, Exiciting,