Young Yoo

Some research activities

- A study of sentimentalism : The performance with film-screening on a tragic narrative about     

  life and death of a nightclub hostess named Kyong-A, one of the most popular fictional  

  characters in contemporary film and literature in Korea 

  2003, Princess Grace Award (Honorarium), Princess Grace Foundation, Monaco & New York

- Neither : Performance with video-installation based on Samuel Beckett’s Libretto Neither

  2004, Fellowship, Schmidt Foundation, Berlin & San Francisco

- Site-Specific Installations and Live Performances in The Castle of Hwaseong (as a producer)

  2005, Sponsored by Suwon-Hwaseong Cultural Foundation in Korea & UNESCO 

- Psychological Treaties on Seeing Colour in Buddhism, Schopenhauer and Wittgenstein.  

  2006, Conference paper on the foundation of New Gutai : Artists-Monks  Research Group based 

  on  Japan-Korea, Sendai, Japan

- Female shamans in secular world and their performances for vicarious ecstasy   

  2007,  Screening, Annual Conference on Tantrism, Temple of Virocana, Suwon, Korea

- Desire into Enlightenment : Video-Diary of Female Buddhist Monks (on-going project)

  2009,  Partial screening in public theatre, Temple of Virocana, Suwon, Korea

Research blog : youngseokyoo.wordpress.com                                                                   

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