On This Spot - Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

247 Elizabeth Street, Multimedia Story of the Immigrant Experience
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha moved to New York City in 1980 to join the conceptual artist movement. However, the underground scene had ended before she got there, so she forged her own path. Through video, performance and language fragments - printed words on paper, tiny bowls full of tiny text - her works described a life of serial displacement. The strength of words (she spoke several languages) was manifested in her magnum opus, Dictee. The collage-form book was published shortly before her violent death at age 31.