Unforgotten Song

Friday, July 9, 2021 | 7PM to 8PM

Online Event: Watch on YouTube

The Center for Remembering & Sharing (CRS) presents CROSSING BOUNDARIES Concert Series Vol. 14: UNFORGOTTEN SONG, viewable online from July 9, 2021 for one month.

Musician gamin has created “Unforgotten Song,” a music and multi-media work, to commemorate the anguish of Comfort Women, enslaved local women throughout Japanese-occupied East Asia, from 1932 to 1945. Inspired by visual artist Chang-Jin Lee’s recordings and exhibition, this tribute is intended to include all women who are, and have been, victims of sexual violence and exploitation. These songs of our strong and resilient Mothers and Grandmothers must be “unforgotten” in order to inspire succeeding generations of women and men. This concert transforms the archived songs sung by survivors into tales of resilience, courage, and strength in the face of suffering and injustice. In poignant irony, gamin’s composition results in a beautiful yet heartbreaking paean not only for victims in the past but also for all women who are deeply suffering from injustice in the world.

CROSSING BOUNDARIES is a performance series devoted to creating unforgettable art experiences that dissolve boundaries between performers and audiences, traditional and new music, and the local and the global, bringing people together and promoting the awareness that we each possess a limitless creativity inside us.

Co-Sponsor
Center for Remembering & Sharing (CRS)
Asian American / Asian Research Institute – City University of New York

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Author Bio

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gamin is a New York-based multi-dimensional artist performing across the genres of traditional Korean music, theater, collaborative projects, cross-cultural performances. gamin has participated in many festivals and workshops, including ISIM (International Society of Improvised Music), Vision Festival, Silkroad’s Global Musician Workshop, etc, and performed at Metropolitan Museum of Arts, Carnegie Hall and New York Fashion Week, etc. She is currently an Artist-in-residence at HERE Arts Center, and also Curator of CROSSING Boundaries for CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing).