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15th Gwangju Biennale [Germany Pavilion] Program
Who speaks here with this mouth? / Wer spricht hier mit diesem Munde?
Thursday, September 12 16:00
Gwangju History & Folk Museum
No registration required.
The language of the event is Korean and English
A POETIC-PHILOSOPHICAL CONVERSATION with Hyesoon Kim and Sool Park
Hyesoon Kim’s poetry collection “Autobiography of Death” (죽음의 자서전) is considered as one of the most important international successes of Korean poetry in recent years. The 49 visually stunning poems in the volume are spoken by a dead speaker whose soul, according to Buddhist belief, remains on earth for another 49 days. Translator and philosopher Sool Park talks to the poet about the work and the difficulty of translating the text into German, including the problem of subjectless sentences in Korean, shamanism and philosophy.
For more information on the public programs of the German Pavilion at the 15th Gwangju Biennale, please visit the following link.
https://www.german-pavilion-gwangju-biennale.org/