On 16 April 2014, the Sewol Ferry capsized in the southern region of South Korea: 304 passengers died, including 250 high school students. Despite an international outcry, there has not yet been a comprehensive investigation into what caused the Sewol to sink and why the passengers were not rescued promptly. This article discusses how performance can represent something that defies explanation because we do not know how or why it happened. Yellow Ribbon’s Talent Show, Namsan Arts Centre’s From Pluto, and Camino de Ansan performed the role of the students who died. Taking these three case studies, this article analyzes the ways in which they strive to represent the unrepresentable as they attempt to document the sinking and achieve justice, while memorializing the victims and arguing for the necessity of a more safety-conscious society. Areum Jeong is Assistant Professor in Humanities at Sichuan University-Pittsburgh Institute. Jeong’s research takes a transnational approach to Korean and Korean-American film, literature, theatre, and performance. Her current book project explores how performance documents death, loss, and memory in South Korean and diasporic communities.

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在韩国活动家表演中代表无法代表的人

2014 年 4 月 16 日，世越渡轮在韩国南部地区倾覆：304 名乘客死亡，其中包括 250 名高中生。尽管引起了国际社会的强烈抗议，但尚未对造成世越沉没以及为什么乘客没有及时获救。本文讨论了性能如何代表无法解释的事物，因为我们不知道它是如何发生或为什么发生的。黄丝带达人秀, 南山艺术中心来自冥王星， 和卡米诺·德·安山扮演死去的学生的角色。通过这三个案例研究，本文分析了他们在试图记录沉没和伸张正义的同时努力代表无法代表的人的方式，同时纪念受害者并主张建立一个更具安全意识的社会的必要性。Areum Jeong 是四川大学匹兹堡学院人文学科助理教授。Jeong 的研究对韩国和韩裔美国人的电影、文学、戏剧和表演采取跨国研究方法。她目前的图书项目探讨了表演如何记录韩国和侨民社区的死亡、丧失和记忆。