{"title":"Between Abstraction and Materiality: Carlos Villa and the Politics of Asian American Art","authors":"Chaeeun Lee","doi":"10.1163/23523085-08010002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/23523085-08010002","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000In the 1970s and early 1980s, Filipino American artist Carlos Villa developed a set of experimental methods and idioms—namely, abstraction, abject sensibility, and intense materiality—that would accompany his renewed interest in self-identity and community expression. While these strategies coincided with the broader artistic tendency of the 1960s and ’70s toward unconventional materiality and a deliberately indecorous sensibility, Villa’s far-reaching concern for the racialized condition of Filipinx America compels a reconsideration of his work vis-à-vis the historical and discursive contexts of Filipinx America. This article combines formal analysis with readings from Filipinx/Asian American studies and critical theory to argue that Villa’s experimental methods expose and reroute the multifarious ways in which Filipinx America has been subjected to the violence of the visual regimes of colonialism and modernity. They reorient the predicaments of Filipinx America towards imagining alternative modes of existence and possibilities of freedom, and a rethinking of the politics of Asian American art.","PeriodicalId":29832,"journal":{"name":"Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46816099","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Haema Sivanesan (ed.), In the Present Moment: Buddhism, Contemporary Art and Social Practice","authors":"L. Vigo","doi":"10.1163/23523085-08010013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/23523085-08010013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29832,"journal":{"name":"Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45122149","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Denyse Thomasos: Just Beyond","authors":"J. Kok","doi":"10.1163/23523085-08010017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/23523085-08010017","url":null,"abstract":"art, by definition, does not provide an accurate depiction of a visual reality; the artist instead used colour, form","PeriodicalId":29832,"journal":{"name":"Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48452853","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Howie Chen (ed.), Godzilla: Asian American Arts Network 1990-2001","authors":"Eva Y.H. Lu","doi":"10.1163/23523085-08010011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/23523085-08010011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29832,"journal":{"name":"Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49188654","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Việt Lê, Return Engagements: Contemporary Art's Traumas of Modernity and History in Sài Gòn and Phnom Pehn","authors":"Liza M. Constantino","doi":"10.1163/23523085-08010012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/23523085-08010012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29832,"journal":{"name":"Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48227882","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"everything slackens in a wreck. Curated by Andil Gosine","authors":"Vanessa Godden","doi":"10.1163/23523085-08010016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/23523085-08010016","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29832,"journal":{"name":"Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45873069","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Speculative Ephemera: Reimagining Racialized Embodiment in Korean American Family Photographs","authors":"Rachel A. Yim","doi":"10.1163/23523085-08010004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/23523085-08010004","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This article uses personal family photographs to explore a framework of speculative looking. I begin by considering the category of Asian/American woman not as a knowable entity but as an analytic. I then consider family photographs and alternate modes of speculation to further consider Asian/American gendered subject formation. Using photography, I autoethnographically close read images while thinking about the many afterlives of the Korean War in relation to gendered migration, assimilation, and family formation. I argue for a speculative looking that creates new bonds and possibilities for care by insisting on alternate temporal knowledges across time, allowing visibility to become a site of contestation and possibility. Photography has historically functioned to discipline Asian bodies into racialized and gendered subjectivities to monitor citizenship. The ephemerality of family photographs offers a way to think about the nonlinearity of memory and the everyday presence of violence alongside enduring forms of care.","PeriodicalId":29832,"journal":{"name":"Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49670050","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Robert Diaz, Takashi Fujitani, Allan Punzalan Isaac, Christine Kim, Casey Mecija
{"title":"Critical Race Studies Now: Teaching Anti-Asian Racism within and outside of Institutions","authors":"Robert Diaz, Takashi Fujitani, Allan Punzalan Isaac, Christine Kim, Casey Mecija","doi":"10.1163/23523085-07010008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/23523085-07010008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29832,"journal":{"name":"Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135951570","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Disobedient Performance in Han Han’s “Babae Ka”","authors":"Bennette Baguisa","doi":"10.1163/23523085-20221263","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/23523085-20221263","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article seeks to introduce readers to the artist Han Han, whose identification as a first-generation immigrant woman, nurse, and rapper highlights a unique contribution to Filipino Canadian critique of colonial and racial relations in Canada. I examine the 2019 music video for Han Han’s single, “Babae Ka,” and consider how it reimagines local, global, and transnational forms of queerness and feminist power. How does this audio-visual piece reproduce and respond to conversations around diaspora, Indigeneity, and gendered forms of labour? Moving between the sonic and the visual, I argue that Han Han enacts a critical practice of “disobedient performance” as she plays with a vernacular understanding of Philippine gender and sexuality and explores the nuances of a performative construction of femininity encompassed in the term “babae” (Tagalog for “woman”).","PeriodicalId":29832,"journal":{"name":"Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135951574","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Spiraling Through: Chitra Ganesh in Conversation with Natasha Bissonauth","authors":"Natasha Bissonauth","doi":"10.1163/23523085-07010011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/23523085-07010011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29832,"journal":{"name":"Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135951572","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}