Fresh Talk/Daring Gazes: Conversations on Asian American Art
Fresh Talk/Daring Gazes chronicles the blossoming of Asian American art and anticipates the growing democratization of American art and culture. Pairing work by twenty-four contemporary Asian American visual artists with responses provocatively drawn from cultural critics, other artists, activists, and intellectuals, this book explores themes of geographical movement, the sexuality of Asian bodies, colonization, miscegenation, hybrid forms of immigrant cultures, the loss of home, war,...
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"Godzookie Lives! Kim, Machida, and Mizota have opened up a whole new series of conversations on identity within a varied and distinguished group of artists and writers. And we get to eavesdrop. The artists are Asian American, the respondents are from all over the map, and the results are in turn scholarly, political, intimate, and provocative. This dialogic form, across cultures, across generations, brings a breath of fresh air to cultural studies."—Lucy R. Lippard, author of Mixed Blessings: New Art in a Multicultural America"This wonderfully rich collection is three big projects stuffed into one: critical essays that help us theorize and historicize the Asian American art of the past and present; a generous sampling of contemporary artworks, accompanied by provocative and informative captions; and a series of responses to the efforts of individual artists by a wide range of intellectuals and activists. Altogether, we discover Asian American art at the crossroads of history, theory, criticism, and practice. Scholarly and sassy, personal and critical, this book stakes out an emerging and exciting field."—Anthony W. Lee, author of Picturing Chinatown: Art and Orientalism in San Francisco"This brilliantly original collection of essays and images overflows with experimental energy and ideas. Structured to foreground difference and to reflect theoretical, historical, and poetic perspectives, Fresh Talk/Daring Gazes radically redraws the cultural profile of Asian America."—Mark Johnson, co-curator of With New Eyes: Toward an Asian American Art History in the West"Fresh Talk/Daring Gazes chronicles the coming of age of a distinct category in the American art scene. This paradigm-setting book collects together major voices in Asian American art and art criticism, literally acting as a visual and textual declaration that Asian American art has finally arrived."—Shu-mei Shih, author of The Lure of the Modern
AcknowledgmentsPreface: Visual Art and the Imagining of Asian America - An Editorial ViewForeword: Out of the West - Asian Migration and ModernityIntroduction: Interstitial Subjects - Asian American Visual Art as a Site for New Cultural Conversations1Gallery with plate commentaries51Interchanges with figure commentaries77Pacita Abad: A Woman of Color79Kristine Yuki Aono: Installing Memories83Tomie Arai: Ties That Wrap around the World87Sung Ho Choi: Suitcase of Memories91Albert Chong: "It's Complex"95Ken Chu: You Don't See Yourself99Y. David Chung: Sponge103Allan deSouza: Let's Get Lost107Michael Joo: A Rock and a Hard Place111Jin Soo Kim: Primal Energy115Hung Liu: Odalisque119Yong Soon Min: Defining Moments123Long Nguyen: Flesh of the Inscrutable127Manuel Ocampo: Apocalypse Now131Hanh Thi Pham: Contemplating Expatriate Consciousness #9135Pipo Nguyen-Duy: The Thin Line between Tragedy and Beauty139Roger Shimomura: Sansei Samurai143Shahzia Sikander: A Happy Dislocation147Do-Ho Suh: Place as an Infinite Ritual151Mitsuo Toshida: Transmigration and the Double Nation155Carlos Villa: The Common Cape159Martin Wong: Chino Malo163Lynne Yamamoto: Reflections on Hair and Memory Loss167Zarina: Embodiments of Home/Imprints of Existence173Notes177Artists' Biographies187Notes on Commentators195List of Illustrations199Index203
