In Berkeley, a major new exhibit for conceptual and performance art

"For the first time in 25 years Cha's work is getting a major retrospective, opening Jan. 24 and running until April 19 at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, where she once worked (back when it was the University Art Museum) as an art handler and film usher. Titled "Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings," the exhibit presents more than a hundred pieces of ephemera from her life and work - much of it never shown in a museum until now."

""Best known for her groundbreaking 1982 publication ' Dictée,' a hybrid novel-poem that collages image and text, Cha worked across different mediums to explore physical, cultural and linguistic displacement and their attendant effects," the museum writes. This exhibit presents a "range of entry points into Cha's work, guiding visitors through the themes - memory, displacement and the mutability of language, among others - that recur throughout her oeuvre.""

Theresa Hak Kyung Cha was a South Korea–born conceptual artist and writer active in avant-garde San Francisco and New York in the 1970s–80s. For the first time in 25 years her work receives a major retrospective at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive from Jan. 24 to April 19. The exhibition, "Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings," presents more than a hundred pieces of ephemera, many never before exhibited in a museum. Cha is best known for the 1982 hybrid novel-poem Dictée, and worked across mediums to investigate physical, cultural and linguistic displacement. The run includes a day-long academic symposium, a three-hour reading of Dictée, and a film series April 2–19. Museum hours, address, and admission fee are provided.

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