![]() ![]() ![]() For everyone in this contested global era, it evokes memories of other wars, reflection about the United States’ role in the Korean conflict, empathy for survivors, and recognition of our common interest in acting for peace. 1 A space to transform private memory into public dialogue, the exhibit explores the human experience of the Korean conflict and its hidden but enduring personal and family legacies, and underscores the urgency to end over a half century of national division. Still Present Pasts: Korean Americans and the “Forgotten War” weaves these elements into a multi-media, interactive experience that lifts the silence shrouding the Korean War, a pivotal event in Korean, United States, and Korean American history. Rarely are personal life stories, art, film, spoken word, and history combined in public exhibition. This article summarizes the aims of the exhibit, the process of creating it, and its reception as a unique experiment in restoring collective memory of the Korean War and reclaiming public voice. SPP is currently on tour most recently showing in Seoul, Korea ( link) and Seattle, WA. It is comprised of installation art, interactive art, film, archival photographs, historical markers, and oral history excerpts. SPP's conception, design, and implementation are products of an interdisciplinary collective of artists, a filmmaker, a historian, and myself, a psychologist. SPP embodies memories I collected from 3 generations of Korean Americans as part of a unique oral history project. For everyone, it evokes reflection about the United States’ role in the war, empathy for survivors, and recognition of our common interest in acting for peace. A public space of memory, the exhibit explores the human experience of the Korean conflict and its hidden but enduring personal and family legacies, and underscores the urgency to end over a half century of national division. It weaves these elements into a multi-media, interactive experience that lifts the silence shrouding the Korean War, a pivotal event in Korean, United States, and KoreanAmerican history. Still Present Pasts: Korean Americans and the “Forgotten War” (SPP) is an exception. The Korean War, Korean Americans and the Art of Remembering ![]()
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