Project Puts Spotlight on Women's Issues in North Korea

Photo via kntau's flickr

This Sunday the Bodies of Pyongyang installation was set up outside of St. Mark's Church. The project is by artist Yoonhye Park and features 20 female performers inside of a 70"x70"x70" clear plexiglass cube, all with the aim of bringing awareness to women's issues in North Korea. "These tightly packed schoolgirls try to move about the enclosed cube box expressing their emotional pain and struggle. Red strings symbolizing their dual inner states of suppression and resistance entangle the girls further confining their freedom to move within their already limited and hermetic space." The installation will be back May 2nd (Washington Square) and May 9th (Tompkins Square).

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By Jen Carlson in Arts & Entertainment on April 21, 2009 2:56 PM

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dadoc

Remind me to cancel my May 2nd manicure appointment.

stacey

I think the point is that when it comes to North Korea, the most important issue is the human rights (whether men or women) conditions and the terrible multiple tragedies facing the North Korean people, more so than your worries about the nuclear conflagration.

ribaldry

i was torn between rice a roni or stove top. hi

SP

I think North Koreans, both female and male, have slightly more important things to worry about than "Womens' Issues." You know, stuff like famine, disease, and a looming, possibly nuclear, conflagration.