Exhibition at KUNSTRAUM Potsdamer Straße, Berlin
They are Lying
2020
Collaborative exhibition project
This collaborative exhibition project explores the differing historical perspectives among East Asian countries—China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan—with a particular focus on contested histories of colonialism and wars in the late 19th and 20th centuries. Each section contains sources written in multiple languages from different countries and presents them side by side.
The exhibition sections include:
- Statements on history made by each East Asian head of state
- Interviews with collaborators from various countries discussing the project theme
- Readings of influential narratives on the culture of remembrance from different perspectives
- Photographs of war-related sites accompanied by captions translated from the original languages of different countries
- Timelines drawn from Chinese, Japanese, and Korean history textbooks
Historical perspectives are shaped by the sharing and circulation of information, the exchange of ideas, and other forms of interaction. However, factors such as language barriers, limited networks, national education systems, information infrastructures, and mass media, among others, constrain these activities. Consequently, these discourses tend to develop independently within each linguistic and national context, resulting in observable differences across borders.
Other Works on Asien History
Exhibition at KUNSTRAUM Potsdamer Straße, Berlin
They are Lying
2020
Collaborative exhibition project
This collaborative exhibition project explores the differing historical perspectives among East Asian countries—China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan—with a particular focus on contested histories of colonialism and wars in the late 19th and 20th centuries. Each section contains sources written in multiple languages from different countries and presents them side by side.
The exhibition sections include:
- Statements on history made by each East Asian head of state
- Interviews with collaborators from various countries discussing the project theme
- Readings of influential narratives on the culture of remembrance from different perspectives
- Photographs of war-related sites accompanied by captions translated from the original languages of different countries
- Timelines drawn from Chinese, Japanese, and Korean history textbooks
Historical perspectives are shaped by the sharing and circulation of information, the exchange of ideas, and other forms of interaction. However, factors such as language barriers, limited networks, national education systems, information infrastructures, and mass media, among others, constrain these activities. Consequently, these discourses tend to develop independently within each linguistic and national context, resulting in observable differences across borders.