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Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s “Perte Loss”

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Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s “Perte Loss”
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From Perte Loss, 1979. University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; Gift of the Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Memorial Foundation.
In 1979, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha submitted a proposal for a two-channel video performance titled Perte Loss to the San Francisco–based collective Video Free America. The performance, she explained, would explore multiple valences of the French word perte: “loss, articulated as memory, time, image, etc within the duration of the piece.” One channel, r

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