Partly based on free Interpretation of Hans Christian Andersen’s “From Holmen’s Canal to the Eastern Part of Amaber” 1828-29.
Made for ”Accent” project.
Filming: Jane Jin Kaisen, Boo Sung Bin, Trine Meesook Gleerup, Thomas V. Bech, Michael Larsen. Edit/concept: Jane Jin Kaisen
Duration: 32:00 min., Mini DV, 2004
As much as International Adoption can be seen as an act of mercy, “third world aid”, or as a form of state regulated birth control, the practice also raises uncanny questions of human trafficking, structural power imbalance, and cultural genocide.
An X-Raced Cyborg-Angel and projected images narrates the history of international, trans-racial adoption from China. The [...]
A Danish TV host is interviewing a young American couple in their home in Minnesota as part of a morning television series on Danish heritage.The young couple has recently adopted a child and talk about their experiences with adopting a child from another country. The only unusual factor about the situation is that the adoptive [...]
The video »Dissimilate & Transgress« is an edited documentation of a twelve-day performance series. All the acts of transformation play with issues of transforming the self as symbol from one state to another with an inherit element of conflict or paradox. Each day, I provoked an alteration in my body or the surrounding space.
Filming: Carl [...]
Chasing and tracing the history of human trade and trafficking between Korea and Europe, the journey starts with the investigation of the history behind the mysterious “korean man” portrayed in a Peter Paul Rubens drawing.
Being bought and brought to Italy by Francesco Carletti, a Florentine merchant in the early 17th century, the “Korean man” could [...]
Artist: Jane Jin Kaisen