Full Description
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.
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
