I will present my research on how Korean activists and artists used performance to create a collaborative public counter-memory that undermines and pushes back against forces of government censorship, media bias, online smear campaigns, and other more subtle forms of mis-remembering and forgetting that proceeded the initial horror of the Sewol Ferry disaster at the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs Conference under the theme of “Theorizing Global Authoritarianism: To Reclaim Critical Theory Against the Grain.”The conference will take place from June 9 to 11, 2023 at Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea.