Jorng Jam Cambodian-Australian oral history and exhibition collection
Collection
This collection describes the experiences of Nov Oeub, Lim Kim Vang, Lim Vy, Kay Sy Chhun, Than Chhen and Chhoun Ponh, Thatch Thann, Sarm Sam escaping the Khmer Rouge and living in refugee camps using oral history interviews, photographs and artworks. It has been arranged so that each series correlates to each person or couples experience. The digital photographs included are copies of the subject's family photographs taken during their lives in or escape from Cambodia. The artworks are, largely, photographic art created by Cambodian artists in response to these stories. The exception is a digital photograph of a lithographic print and a digital video documentary art work.
"Jorng Jam is a collaborative project and exhibition series featuring the work of four young Cambodian artists: film-maker Neang Kavich, sculptor Kong Vollak, photographers Kim Hak and Neak Sophal. The project is curated and produced by Brisbane based producer, Pip Kelly. Having first exhibited the memories and photographs of people living in Phnom Penh (Our City Festival, 2014), the collaborative visited Logan to undergo an intensive six week process involving oral history interviewing and the production of new work. The resulting exhibition, Jorng Jam II, aims to connect Cambodian and Australian communities in order to remember, reclaim and reinterpret historical knowledge and photographs from before, during and after the Khmer Rouge era." -- from exhibition website.
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