시선의 근대적 재편, 일제치하의 전시공간 -박람회와 박물관을 중심으로-

Abstract

Yoshimi Sunya claimed that modern perspective refers to controlling and training the outside world through the process of ‘discovery=reorganization’. It can be regarded that Chosun in the early 20th century, which had colonial experience for 35 years under the control of Japanese Imperialism, was reorganized under the modern perspective in terms of the fact that even the action of watching was ruled by Japanese ruling power. There are high possibilities that fairs and museums created by a huge power drove visual subjects into impersonal gaze, given the large exhibition or event and their birth in the midst of homogenized visual experience and Japanization. Two expositions hosted by Government General visualizes these influences；the first one was Chosun Local Products Expo in 1915 and the second one was Chosun Expo in 1929. Government General compared the situation before and after colonial rule through those expositions and attempted to apply the Chosun people as a spectator to internalize their ruling power. The management system of museums continuing from the first museum of Korea Yi Royal Family Museum and the Museum of Chosun Government General also skillfully and continuously penetrated into the inner world of subjects in the colony. The history of Korean museums share colonial cultural ruling policy to assimilate subjects in colony in two contexts which are modernization project and colonial power. Though these expositions modernized the perspectives of Chosun people through modern system which is a huge exhibition, but there is a limitation that they make the main body of the perspective as watchers who lost individuality by operating the perspectives of power on choice and arrangement of subjects.