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"Queering Contemporary Asian American Art takes Asian American differences as its point of departure, and brings together artists and scholars to challenge normative assumptions, essentialisms, and methodologies within Asian American art and visual culture. Taken together, these nine original artist interviews, cutting-edge visual artworks, and seven critical essays explore contemporary currents and experiences within Asian American art, including the multiple axes of race and identity, queer bodies and forms, kinship and affect, and digital identities and performances. Using the verb and critical lens of ""queering"" to capture transgressive cultural, social, and political engagement and practice, the contributors to this volume explore the connection points in Asian American experience and cultural production of surveillance states, decolonization and diaspora, transnational adoption, and transgender bodies and forms, as well as heteronormative respectability, the military, and war. The interdisciplinary and theoretically informed frameworks in the volume engage readers to understand global and historical processes through contemporary Asian American artistic production."

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Author:   Laura Kina ,  Jan Christian Bernabe ,  Susette Min ,  Kyoo Lee
Publisher:   University of Washington Press
Imprint:   University of Washington Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   0.544kg
ISBN:  

9780295741376

ISBN 10:   0295741376
Pages:   296
Publication Date:   16 May 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Foreword by Susette Min Introduction: For the Love of Unicorns: Queering Contemporary Asian American Art by Jan Christian Bernabe and Laura Kina CHAPTER 1 QUEERING SURVEILLANCE “You Blushed”: Queering Surveillance after 9/11 in the Work of Jill Magid and Hasan Elahi by Harrod J. Suarez Performance, Surveillance, and Sousveillance: A Conversation with Wafaa Bilal and Hasan Elahi by Jan Christian Bernabe and Laura Kina CHAPTER 2 QUEERING TIME Pacific Standard Time: Queering Temporality in Asian American Visual Cultures by Mariam B. Lam Promiscuous Time Traveling (on Leaving and Returns): A Conversation with Lin + Lam and Việt Le by Laura Kina CHAPTER 3 QUEERING AFFECT Filipino Diasporic Queer Killjoy: Recuperating Failure in Jeffrey Augustine Songco’s Guilty Party and BOMH Series by Jan Christian Bernabe Negotiating Desire and (Queer) Masculinity: An Interview with Kenneth Tam by Jan Christian Bernabe CHAPTER 4 QUEERING METHODOLOGY Queer Zen: Unyoking Genealogy in Asian American Art History by Alpesh Kantilal Patel Pin@y Projections: Urban Spaces, Digital Ephemerality, and Planned Obsolescence: An Interview with Eliza Barrios by Jan Christian Bernabe Queer Traveler–on Desiring and Failing Sublime Landscapes: An Interview with Kim Anno by Jan Christian Bernabe and Laura Kina CHAPTER 5 QUEERING SUBJECTIVITY Risky Subjectivity: Select Works by Korean Adoptee Artists by Eun Jung Park Dazzle: A Conversation on Transgender Subjectivity with Greyson Hong and Kiam Marcelo Junio by Jan Christian Bernabe and Laura Kina CHAPTER 6 QUEERING MIXED RACE Liminal Possibilities: Queering Mixed-Race Asian American Strategies in the Art of Maya Mackrandilal and Zave Gayatri Martohardjono by Laura Kina Chimera: A Conversation on Mixed Race/Mixed Methods with Sita Kuratomi Bhaumik and Saya Woolfalk by Laura Kina CHAPTER 7 QUEERING ASIAN AMERICA Open-Source Identities: Identity and Resistance in the Work of Three Asian American Artists by Valerie Soe Muscles, Mash-Ups and Warning Shots–Queering Japanese American History: An Interview with Tina Takemoto by Jan Christian Bernabe and Laura Kina The Buddhist Bug—Spanning Borders and Bodies: An Interview with Anida Yoeu Ali by Laura Kina Afterword: To be Queer Being to Queer It . . . by Kyoo Lee

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Laura Kina is an artist and a Vincent de Paul Professor of Art, Media, and Design at DePaul University. She is the coeditor of War Baby / Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art. Jan Christian Bernabe is the operations, new media, and curatorial director at the Center for Art and Thought. The contributors are Mariam B. Lam, Eun Jung Park, Alpesh Kantilal Patel, Valerie Soe, and Harrod J Suarez. Featured artists are Anida Yoeu Ali, Kim Anno, Eliza Barrios, Sita Kuratomi Bhaumik, Wafaa Bilal, Hasan Elahi, Greyson Hong, Kiam Marcelo Junio, Lin + Lam (H. Lan Thao Lam and Lana Lin), Viet Le, Maya Mackrandilal, Zavé Martohardjono, Jeffrey Augustine Songco, Tina Takemoto, Kenneth Tam, and Saya Woolfalk.

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