ABSTRACT
This essay establishes Jung Kang-Ja as a pioneer of the Korean Experimental Art of the 1960s and 1970s. Jung led significant breakthroughs by exploring her own body as a means of radical artistic expression in such work Transparent Balloons and Nude (1968), the first semi-nude happening in South Korea. Jung brought gender politics to the centre of her practice by claiming the agency and authorship over her body. Throughout her multidisciplinary explorations across mediums that explicitly transgress the gender and sexual politics and norms of her time, Jung problematised women's social status and female gender roles in politically repressive male-centric Korean society.
