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From Clinic to Screen, Ways to Save Health and Happiness

“From Clinic to Screen, Ways to Save Health and Happiness” is one of the attempts to situate “art” as a meaningful methodology in a new chapter of knowledge creation. It is hosted by the Center for Art Convergence at the Korea National University of Arts in cooperation with PLATFORM-L, a comprehensive cultural and art space. This educational program was based on the problem awareness and research contents of Se-ok Lee, who was an artist and researcher at the Center for Art Convergence, and invited experts from each field.

Se-ok Lee (Artist, researcher at the Center for Art Convergence, Korea National University of Arts)We scrutinized what questions this project was initiated on by reviewing various resources and organized an overall outline together. The specific starting point of this project’s theme is the “images of youth who do not need healing and consolation,” which are already in the daily sphere of each individual. Perhaps they are “cases that deviate from that imagery.” The production of various media texts that try to show the images of healthy or unhealthy youth, or about those images, “accurately” is the vanishing point set by this project. We do not exclude the practice of speaking and listening to pain, agony, and aging while speaking and seeking health and happiness without hesitation at the same time. It requires a sophisticated understanding of the facts, imagination, and humor beyond those facts.

Junsu Kwon (Professor, Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine / Department of Brain and Cognitive Science, College of Natural Sciences, Seoul National University)We are aiming at an in-depth understanding of medical prudence when words frequently used in daily life, such as “depression,” “adaptation,” and “personality” are diagnosed as a “disease” according to the classification criteria table of the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) and referred to as a management target. In addition, as to a medical diagnosis for the high-risk group, such as schizophrenia and psychosis, the underlying medical facts are analyzed based on brain imaging methods (MRI, PET), electrophysiological changes of the brain, neuropsychological tests, cognitive function models, and clinical scales (PANSS, YMS, TCI, etc.) to evaluate the difference between the diagnosed and normal people.

Namsi Kim (Professor, College of Art and Design, Ewha Womans University)Based on “Madness, Art, Writing (2016),” we examine the texts derived from the mental state of the artist’s individual “madness.” The writings of Vaslav Nijinsky and Daniel Paul Schreber are specific examples. The starting point of the lecture is the analysis of Max Nordau’s modern perception of madness, written in the context of technological inventions during “the late 1800s and early 1900s, a period of unprecedented rapid change.” Accordingly, on the premise of differences in visual image and language, we explored texts and sculptural works of other artists, dealing with some discussion questions.

Okhee Lim (Professor, Humanitas College, Kyung Hee University)Seminar attendees will be able to check their own projects from the perspective of “whose language” is used when viewing, analyzing, writing, and creating works. As pointed out in “Gender, Emotions, and Politics (2016),” Elfriede Jelinek confesses to her failure to write female pornography while witnessing the perception of the genre occupied by masculine language. This seminar suggests speculative training by looking at Hertha Müller’s texts that do not aim at healing, the political action as an act of reading a narrative beside the dominant narrative in Coetzee’s works, and a thought passing through Gayatri Spivak’s An Aesthetic Education in the Era of Globalization (2013).

Jeongwon Yoon (Medical Specialist and Research Fellow, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Green Hospital)This seminar examines the knowledge, facts, policies, and powers that constitute the medical diagnosis of women’s bodies in Korea. Applying and combining the perspectives of Foucault, Carol Tavris, and Sarah Nettleton, we looked at how to discuss and view the female body again through the concepts of gender-specific medicine (GSM), feminist medicine, and medical access. We also examined accurate medical facts about issues surrounding the female body that are newly raised by the development of medical technology and reviewed the concept of biological citizenship. Specific examples to discuss are abortion/contraception, cervical cancer vaccine, BRCA gene, and ovarian tubal/mastectomy.

Yoosik Youm (Professor, Department of Sociology, Yonsei University)The ultimate objective of this lecture is to examine how definitions of health and happiness can be approached and to examine the relationship between physical health and social networks. The results of the international comparative study on the happiness index for children and adolescents conducted annually for the 8th year will be reviewed, and the discussion of how health and social relationships are related will be dealt with based on a series of studies on the health of the elderly people conducted by Professor Youm. In particular, the relationship between social and brain networks and their implications for health is an unprecedented topic.

Hyunah Yang (Professor, School of Law, Seoul National University)Focusing on the current status of feminist jurisprudence in Korea and abroad and activities of the domestic gender law society, we will look into the “right to self-determination.” In particular, we try to understand the mechanism by which women’s personal and social self-determination rights on their bodies are exercised in various channels of communication. We have identified legal issues that have been or are still controversial in specific cases, such as the abolition of a patriarchal family system, the right to abortion, and privacy management. In each case, the points where an individual’s body or state of being is formed and damaged within the social context, or areas restored by the remedy of the law, or parts of the body that are omitted in the language of the law were recognized.

Kyungshin Park (Professor, Graduate School Department of Law, Korea University)We examined the keywords that can reflect the policy contexts in which the online environment is being constructed, and the legal issues that exist within it, the restrictions, limitations, responsibility, and ethics imposed on “content producers.” Also, we reviewed issues that can be debated in principle and from various angles, such as restrictions and limitations (in expression, distribution, acceptance, etc.) in the online environment and responsibility and ethics (in the use of technology/media). Using the Crime of Spreading the Truth (2012)” as a basis of the lecture, we looked at the gender issues encountered in the activities of the Korea Communications Standards Commission, including the Megalian issue, which was popular last year.

Yongeon Kim (Editor-in-chief in Mysteria, Elixir, Munhakdongne Publishing Co.)We looked into women’s health issues that were dealt with in romantic comedy/screwball comedy (mystery thriller as well) – cases that show the narrative development process surrounding unhealthy women and the dynamics between characters. We analyzed strategies to visually and narratively establish a female character set as “abnormal.”

Jihoon Kim (Professor, Department of Film, Chung Ang University)We checked the language of cinema or essay films dealing with scientific and medical issues about health and happiness. For example, we looked at a medical documentary on psychiatry dealing with mental health that is difficult to diagnose with visible symptoms or everyday verbal expressions – especially videos that can be used as a reference for finding or experimenting with expressions to discuss women’s health in video media.

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