Transcultural Exchange Through Art - Encountering Otherness in South Korea and Kenya

Transcultural Exchange through Art provides an exploration of two countries and their capital cities, two regions and their growing cultural engagement with one another, soft and hard power and their impact on the arts, multiculturalism, museums, globalization, cosmopolitanism and postcoloniality.

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. Multiculturalism, globalization and otherness in Korea; 3. Multiculturalism, aid and trade in Kenya; 4. Exhibiting Africa at museums in Korea; 5. Experiencing Africa through art in Korea; 6. Exhibiting Korea at museums in Kenya; 7. Experiencing Asia through art in Kenya; 8. Concluding reflections

About the author

Kristina Dziedzic Wright has a PhD in Museum, Gallery and Heritage Studies from the University of Leicester. She taught art history and English at Ewha Women's University and Seoul National University in South Korea from 2011 to 2019 and consulted on a project at the National Museums of Kenya to develop a comprehensive cultural heritage management system. She works as an independent curator and is the 2025 Okwui Enwezor Postdoctoral Fellow in Visual Culture, Performance Studies and Critical Humanities with the Africa Institute at the Global Studies University in Sharjah, UAE.

Product details

• Authors: Kristina Dziedzic Wright, Dziedzic Wright Kristina
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.2025
• EAN: 9781032899718
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3289971-8
• No. of pages: 130
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; Popular Culture, The arts: general issues, ART / General, Anthropology, ART / Museum Studies, ART / African, ART / Asian / General, Colonialism & imperialism, Colonialism and imperialism, National liberation & independence, post-colonialism, Museology & heritage studies, Museology and heritage studies, National liberation and independence, The arts: general topics