{"id":156077,"date":"2026-01-30T04:44:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T04:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/156077\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T04:44:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T04:44:17","slug":"multiple-offerings-opens-in-berkeley-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/156077\/","title":{"rendered":"Multiple Offerings\u201d opens in Berkeley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Theresa Hak Kyung Cha was a pioneering <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/tag\/arts\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">conceptual artist<\/a> and writer born in South Korea, who became well-known in the avant-garde circles of 1970s-\u201980s San Francisco and New York.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time in 25 years Cha\u2019s 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 \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/bampfa.org\/program\/theresa-hak-kyung-cha-multiple-offerings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings<\/a>,\u201d the exhibit presents more than a hundred pieces of ephemera from her life and work \u2013 much of it never shown in a museum until now.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"The exhibit &quot;Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings&quot; runs until April 19, 2026, at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley, Calif. Pictured: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, &quot;Other Things Seen, Other Things Heard (Ailleurs),&quot; 1978. Documentation of performance at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. (James H. Cha\/Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Memorial Foundation.)\" width=\"1166\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1769748257_403_SJM-L-GOODTIMES-0128-02.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"8808228\" \/>The exhibit \u201cTheresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings\u201d runs until April 19, 2026, at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley, Calif. Pictured: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, \u201cOther Things Seen, Other Things Heard (Ailleurs),\u201d 1978. Documentation of performance at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. (James H. Cha\/Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Memorial Foundation.)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBest known for her groundbreaking 1982 publication \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dictee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Dict\u00e9e<\/a>,\u2019 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,\u201d the museum writes. This exhibit presents a \u201crange of entry points into Cha\u2019s work, guiding visitors through the themes \u2014 memory, displacement and the mutability of language, among others \u2014 that recur throughout her oeuvre.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The show\u2019s run will feature a public, day-long academic symposium of so-called \u201cChascholars\u201d and a three-hour reading of \u201cDict\u00e9e.\u201d There will also be a film series from April 2-19 of Cha\u2019s work as it appeared in the original format.<\/p>\n<p>Details: Museum open 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Wednesday-Sunday at 2155 Center St., Berkeley; $18 general admission, <a href=\"https:\/\/bampfa.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">bampfa.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Theresa Hak Kyung Cha was a pioneering conceptual artist and writer born in South Korea, who became well-known&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153444,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[75569,143,145,144],"class_list":["post-156077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-bay-area-san-francisco-museum-shows-calendar-2026-berkeley-conceptual-performance-visual-arts","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}