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Volume 17, Issue 3
  • ISSN: 1743-5234
  • E-ISSN: 2040-090X

Abstract

It is hard to coherently narrate traumatic memories as they are intensely emotional and fragmented. I created this narrative inquiry in the hope of enacting care and performing mourning for the unexpected death of Seonjeong Yi Lebrun (1983–2017). Seonjeong was a Korean-born art education researcher in Canada whose work exemplified how artistic approaches to narrative evoke empathy and connectivity. Her research spanned arts-based self-study to participatory action research about comfort women (Korean sex slaves for the Imperial Japanese Army during the Second World War). In performing mourning for Seonjeong through examining her research, I endeavour to have my research possibly initiate a new form of arts-based collective care for her, comfort women and those suffering from other forms of trauma.

초록

트라우마에 관한 기억들은 감정적으로 강렬하고 분열되어 있기 때문에 조리있게 내러티브화하기 어렵다. 이선정 (1983–2017) 의 예상치 못한 죽음에서 비롯된 나의 트라우마를 내러티브화하기 위해, 그리고 그녀에 관한 배려와 애도를 시행하고자 하는 소망으로 이 내러티브 연구를 하게 되었다. 선정은 한국에서 태어나 캐나다에서 연구하던 미술교육 학자였으며, 내러티브에 관한 예술적 접근이 어떻게 공감성과 연결성을 증진시키는가에 관한 연구를 하였다. 선정의 연구는 예술기반 자기연구부터 위안부 (일본 제국주의 군사에 착취된 한국인 성노예)에 관한 참여적 실행연구로 다양하였다. 그녀의 연구를 통해 선정에 대한 애도를 표하면서, 나의 연구가 새로운 예술기반 형태의 선정을 위한, 위안부를 위한, 그리고 다른 트라우마에 고통받고 있는 이들을 위한 함께하는 애도의 시발점이 되기를 바라는 바이다.

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