Charlottenborg Live

Kunsthal Charlottenborg invites you, in collaboration with Gyldendal and Apollo Bar, to join Charlottenborg Live every Wednesday between the 27 Oct – 15 Dec 2021.

Program of the evening
17.00 − 19.00 Symposium: Terrapolis – about the translation of Kim Hyesoon’s Autobiography of Death with Maja Lee Langvad, Jeuno Kim and Don Mee Choi
18.00 − 18.45 Guided tour: The World is in You, Mohamed Bourouissa HARa!!!!!!hAaaRAAAAA!!!!!hHAaA!!!
19.00 − 21.00 Dinner: Long table dinner in Apollo Kantine
19.45 − 20.05 Author meeting: Bente Scavenius, Mit livs billeder

Tickets for the long table dinner and the author meeting can be bought on Billetto.dk here

Kim Hyesoon is one of the most important Koran poets. Autobiography of Death, a main work in contemporary South Korean literature, is the first of her works every to appear in Danish. To celebrate this publication, Terrapolis are launching two symposia. In the first, the translators of the work into Danish and English, both poets themselves, will discuss the translation process as well as translation in their own writing. Participants: Maja Lee Langvad, Jeuno JE Kim and Don Mee Choi.

The second symposia, in January 2022, will revolve around the works of Kim Hyesoon and her poetics. Participants: Kim Hyesoon and Jane Jin Kaisen.

Kim Hyesoon, born 1955, is one of the most influential contemporary poets of South Korea. She is the first female poet to receive the prestigious Midang and Kim Su-yong awards. Also, Hyesoon has received the prestigious international Griffin Poetry Award. According to her English translator Don Mee Choi, “Kim’s poetics are rooted in her attempt to resist conventional literary forms and language long defined by men in Korea.” Kim lives in Seoul and teaches creative writing at the Seoul Institute of the Arts.

Maja Lee Langvad, born 1980, is a Danish writer and translator. Her 2006 debut Finding Holger Dane, which addressed issues of adoption, nationalism and racism, was awarded the prestigious Bodil og Jorgen Munch-Christensens Debutant Prize. From 2007 to 2010, she stayed in Seoul and worked on her book She is Angry that was published in 2014 and won her wide acclaim. Maja Lee Langvad has received numerous grants and is strong voice on the literary scene in Denmark. Autobiography of Death is her first translation from Korean.

Jane Jin Kaisen, born 1980, is a visual artist and Professor at the School of Media Arts, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. Working with video installation, experimental film, photographic installation, performance, and text, Kaisen is known for her visually striking, poetic, and multi-voiced feminist works through which past and present are brought into relation. Engaging topics such as memory, migration, borders, and translation, and drawing on the works of Kim Hyesoon, she activates the field where subjective experience and embodied knowledge intersect with larger political histories.

Jeuno JE Kim, born 1977, is a visual artist and writer working with animation, sound, performance, video and text. With a background in theology, economics, music and radio, she has been engaged with topics such as the relations between politcal rhetoric, assumptions of national territory, and nations as brands in the Nordic context. For the Danish edition of Autobiography of Death, Kim has contributed to the translation as well as done the cover art.

Don Mee Choi, born 1962, is the author of DMZ Colony, Hardly War, The Morning News Is Exciting and several chapbooks and pamphlets of poems and essays. She has received a Whiting Award, Lannan Literary Fellowship, Lucien Stryk Translation Prize, DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Fellowship, and National Book Award for Poetry. She has translated several collections of Kim Hyesoon’s poetry, including Autobiography of Death, which received the 2019 International Griffin Poetry Prize.