Transnational Queer Solidarities and Ambivalent Affects in the Yeoseong Gukgeuk Project

Abstract:In this article, I examine siren eun young jung’s Yeoseong Gukgeuk Project, an ongoing contemporary art project about yeoseong gukgeuk, a Korean all-female performance form whose survival in the twenty-first century is marked by precarity. Situated at the intersections of archival documentation, ethnography, and visual art, I conceptualize the Yeoseong Gukgeuk Project as an archive of affect which establishes inter-Asian queer solidarities, mediated through reflections of my own encounters with the project at the Korea Artist Prize 2018 exhibition.