월남 문인 생애사 구술의 교집합과 차집합-한국 예술기록원 한국근현대 예술인 ‘관계망’ 구축 사업의 가능성과 한계

Abstract

The aim of this article is to examine possibilities and limits of the ways of reconstructing oral data for Korean modern art history by reviewing the project for digital drawing of the modern Korean artists network as an example. This project is aggregating and classifying oral data of life history texts of senior artists which have been collected since 2003 in order to reveal the modern Korean artists network. Researchers extracted all the names of artists from the data and classified them by kinship, ties of schools, regions, occupations, and relations of influence. However, it is hard to anticipate what appears by this work yet. As finding better indicators and working on aggregating and classifying oral data among this project developed at the same time, the meaning of artists network can not come to a conclusion by what prearranged indicators would forecast. Conclusively, the meaning of “artists networks” can be found ex-post after the whole reconstructing process is finished. Among oral data of “literature” area, the writers from North Korea now living or having lived at that time in south Korea, Wolnam Munin(Jakga), who have common ground for their life histories can be selected as examples which may be the links to show what the artists network means by this data reconstructing project. Therefore, this study is inevitably connected to possibilities and limits of the project itself. First of all, it examines how the indicators, reconstructing artists network by, appear in the oral history texts and what the relevant episodes say about them, which are mostly well-known information in modern Korean literary history. Among the collected oral history texts of “literature” area which the present researcher, as well as the project researcher, has covered, Kim Gyu-dong, Kim Kwang-rim, Kim Shi-chol, Kim U-jong, Park Wan-so who are Wolnam Munin(Jakga) and born and lived at about the same time are sellected. Besides, it tries to analyze further about what appears in artists network reconstructing. For this, it argues that the problem of the significant gap between the modern Korean literary history and changes of dominating powers in Korean literary field can be analyzed as noticeable feature in artists network reconstructing process by comparing the cases of Kim Gyu-dong, Kim Kwang-rim, Kim Shi-chol with those of Kim U-jong, Park Wan-so. It is also observed in the contents by the indicator, “influence” which shows the gap between influential writers and main ideologues of literary field.