Arts of Pacific Asia Show 2012Asian American Women Artists Association (AAWAA) presents a vibrant selection of artworks by San Francisco Bay Area women artists. Juried by Inson Choy, former Curatorial Assistant – Korean Art Department, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. This marks AAWAA’s partnership in the Contemporary Asia Pacific Arts.
Where: Festival Pavilion, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco (for directions click here)
The San Francisco Arts of Pacific Asia Show brings more than 10,000 antiques, textiles and art from Pacific Asia to the West Coast. This event, the oldest and largest vetted fair in the US brings together Asian art specialists from Asia, Europe and North America and this year spotlights contemporary pan-Asian arts.
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Asian American Women Artists Association (AAWAA) is a nonprofit arts organization dedicated to ensuring the visibility and documentation of Asian American women in the arts. Through exhibitions, publications, and educational programs, we offer thought-provoking perspectives that challenge societal assumptions and promote dialogue.
It’s been a while since last year’s College Art Association members meeting and we’ve been working hard to bring a few items into fruition!
We are excited to announce that the Diasporic Asian Art Network is now an official Affiliated Society at CAA! Starting from 2013 with CAA in New York City, DAAN will be able to host a panel session during the conference. We will be sure to talk about this and other news at the upcoming business meeting at CAA in Los Angeles this coming February. Please let us know if you plan to be at the conference this year and if you will be giving a talk, as we will be able to collect information on the talks so that DAAN members will know of other members’ panels.
This Februrary 2012 at CAA! The 100th Annual CAA Conference will be held at the Los Angeles Convention Center, 1201 S. Figueroa St., Los Angeles, from February 22–25, 2012.
The yearly DAAN business meeting has been scheduled as follows: Date: Friday, February 24
Time: 12:30-2 PM
Location: Concourse Meeting Room 407 We will be planning a dinner on Friday evening and will update you on information closer to the date. We hope to see many of you there!
If you would like a copy of the minutes from last year’s meeting at CAA, please email achang@nyu.edu with a subject heading “DAAN Minutes.”
2012 NEH SUMMER INSTITUTE ON ASIAN AMERICAN ART! It is also with great pleasure that we are informing you about the upcoming 2012 NEH Summer Institute from July 9-28, 2012 entitled “Re-envisioning American Art History: Asian American Art, Research, and Teaching” that will be hosted by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute (A/P/A Institute) at New York University (NYU) from July 9-28, 2012. The Summer Institute for twenty-five college and university teachers will deepen participants’ understanding of pivotal developments and critical issues in Asian American art history and visual culture studies, while concurrently providing access to specialized archives that will enhance their research and teaching in the humanities.
The NEH Summer Institute “Re-envisioning American Art History: Asian American Art, Research, and Teaching” website is now launched — it contains more information about the Summer Institute and how to apply! Please feel free to invite your colleagues and those you feel may be interested in participating to apply!
DAAN WEBSITE http://www.nyu-apastudies.org/research/DAAN/ If you are not currently listed in the members profiles on the DAAN website and wish to be included, please send this information to achang@nyu.edu with the heading “DAAN member info.” Thank you!
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Also, please feel free to connect with your regional representatives with any news, including job posts, conferences, exhibitions, article and book publications to share! Link to find a DAAN reps in your area: http://www.nyu-apastudies.org/research/DAAN/?page_id=7
Association of Academics, Artists and Citizens for University Autonomy (ACUA), Vadodara
Invites Curatorial Concepts for the Fourth in the Series of Five Workshops:
Curating Indian Visual Culture: Theory and Practice
(An India Foundation for the Arts (IFA), Bangalore initiative, funded by Sir Jamsetji Tata Trust)
Venue: University of Jammu, Jammu Tawi, India
Dates: 6th to 11th Feb. 2012.
Thematic Focus: Art in the Context of Conflicts
Concept Note: The thematic focus of this workshop has some reference to the historical situation of Jammu and Kashmir and attempts to address some of the specificities of it. At the same time, it is not restricted to the historical situations of this particular location alone. Such a restriction produces the impression that Jammu and Kashmir is an exception and that other parts of the nation and the globe are conflict-free zones. On the contrary, conflicts are not exceptions; in fact, they are the norms of our lives. Keeping in mind this broader framework, this proposed workshop is an attempt to engage with the question of art, aesthetics and politics in the context of zones of conflicts. The world conflict is not necessarily used here to denote physical or material conflicts alone; and conflicts are not looked at as essentially a negative category.
Concurrent with this, the idea of curation is imagined here not merely as a curative act in the conventional or therapeutic sense. This workshop anticipates intense debates around the questions of artistic intervention, engagement and participations in the arena of politics. A renewed understanding regarding the relationship between artistic practices and politics (or artistic practices as politics and vice versa) and the implications of it in the sphere of curatorial practices is one of the central thematics of this workshop. In fact, intense engagements with the struggles of the people and communities for justice, equity and equality can broaden and alter the idea of curation in substantial manner. Similarly, such curatorial engagements further problematize the relationship between ethics, aesthetics and politics. This workshop would also attempt to re-visit some of the important events in the history of artistic and curatorial interventions across the world, in order to conceptualize newer frameworks of the relationship between art and politics. It seeks to address the question of whether art has the potential to engage a zone of conflict in a way that is different or sets it apart from politics.
The last date for receiving the concept note, along with long and short CV with postal address and phone numbers for the Jammu Workshop:
26th December, 2011
Email it to: artcurationworkshop@gmail.com
For details see URL: http://www.curationtheory.com/ (Check the button
‘Functional Logistics’ for how to apply &mode of selection.)
Forthcoming workshops
Shillong – September 2012 & a colloquium at Delhi – December 2012
Please widely circulate this notice.
Prof. Shivaji K. Panikkar & Santhosh Sadanandan
(Project Directors for ACUA)
Here is a position opening at NYU for a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Visual Arts that may be of interest to the DAAN membership. Please follow this link for more information and to apply — deadline to apply is Dec. 1 until the position is filled. A copy of the posting is below.
The Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University invites applications from visual artists for the position of Clinical Assistant Professor in the Visual Arts, a full-time teaching position to commence on September 1, 2012. The position is a non-tenure track but renewable contract line, and includes all the rights of full-time faculty within the Gallatin School. We encourage applications from artists who work at the intersections of various media, especially painting, drawing, and new media. The successful candidate will contribute actively to the School’s interdisciplinary curriculum and teach both studio courses and courses that focus on thematic topics, problems, and questions pertaining to artistic production as a form of cultural work and mode of expression. We are seeking an artist-scholar who can conceptualize and develop innovative ways of linking Gallatin’s studio arts curriculum to its theoretically and historically grounded interdisciplinary curriculum.The ideal candidate will have experience and a strong interest in interdisciplinary teaching and in advising individualized B.A. and M.A. research and arts programs.
Founded in 1972, Gallatin is an experimental college of 1,350 undergraduate students and 180 Masters students which forms a part of NYU, a major research university. Its innovative, nationally recognized B.A. and M.A. programs in individualized study encourage students to develop an integrated, multidisciplinary program of study that combines courses taken in the various schools of NYU with independent studies, internships, and Gallatin’s own interdisciplinary seminars, writing courses and arts workshops. The School emphasizes excellent teaching, intensive student advising and mentoring, and a unique combination of program flexibility and academic rigor.
Faculty
Qualifications: Demonstrated excellence in teaching at the university level. MFA required; Ph.D. desirable.
10-12-2011
All posts close at 11:59 PM Eastern Standard Time on the date listed.
Open Until Filled
All applications must be submitted electronically. Please submit a letter of application, curriculum vitae, a writing sample (of up to 30 pages), three letters of recommendation, a statement of your teaching philosophy, and a brief description of three dream courses.For questions, please contact Amber Pritchett at amber.pritchett@nyu.edu
Review of applications will begin Thursday, December 1, 2011 and will continue until the position is filled.
NYU is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer
Expats & Exiles in Phnom Penh launch film works to challenge US Deportations of Cambodian Americans
Studio Revolt, a collaborative media lab, in Phnom Penh recently released two videos “My Asian Americana” and “Why I Write” on the deportation of Khmer exiled Americans. Both videos use the medium of film to humanize the experiences of exiled Americans, re-framing the issue as a human rights violation. Consistent to Studio Revolt’s style, each video pushes unconventional narratives into a public sphere while still exhibiting the studio’s high quality production value on a shoestring budget. Strategically changing the discourse from deportees to “exiles” is in fact part of the studio’s appeal to a larger public to reconsider this debate.
“The term “deportee,” suggestive of someone who has been sent back to “a homeland,” fails to acknowledge the very fact that Cambodian Americans are in fact Americans who pledge their allegiance not to Cambodia but to the United States. Having paid for their crimes in the United States, they have been unfairly and involuntarily sentenced to live the rest of their lives abroad, in a place that is not home and offers no refuge. They are thus incontrovertibly exiles, Americans who long for their U.S. homeland.” — Dr. Cathy Schlund-Vials, Asian American Studies Institute at University of Connecticut
In “My Asian Americana” a small community of concerned expats and exiles living in Phnom Penh gathered to film a short video challenging the unjust act of deportations. On November 1st, the video was submitted to the White House Asian American Pacific Islander Initiative’s What’s Your Story Video Challenge which called for submissions of Asian American stories of impact. The studio hopes the film will convince the White House to prioritize the issue of deportation as an urgent Asian American.
Director and Producer Anida Yoeu Ali states, “Although U.S. Laws and Policies may appear “effective” for the administration in power, history has proven that the same laws and policies were often created out of fear and discrimination to disenfranchise a specific population (i.e Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, Angel Island, Anti-Miscegenation laws, Japanese Internment Camps). As Asian Americans, it is our obligation to never forget our histories nor remain silent in the face of adversity. As Americans we grew up believing justice is for all.”
The second short film, “Why I Write” created by filmmaker and cinematographer Masahiro Sugano presents a stark and powerful spoken word video debut by Kosal Khiev. Kosal, a poet and US Prison system survivor, was deported to Cambodia in February 2011 after serving a 14 year sentence. While in prison, Kosal discovered spoken word poetry from a former Vietnam War veteran. Spoken word became his creative channel to tell his own story and transform his anger, regrets, and experiences into a poetic art form. Since his arrival, Kosal has used poetry to uplift his situation, with compelling performances at NERD night, The Body Open Mic series, and TEDx Phnom Penh. Along with the debut of his video, Kosal Khiev also launched his website spokenkosal.com which has additional information for others in jeopardy of being deported to Cambodia.
“We may not have all the voices we need in Congress right now, but what we have are our own voices – which have been presented by Studio Revolt in a form we can use to organize for the social and political change we desperately need.” — Mia-lia Kiernan, Community Organizer of One Love Movement (Philadelphia)
The two videos have been released on youtube. The links to works can be found here:
“Cultures Of Resistance” — Artists On Arts & Activism
Suheir Hammad, Sidd Joag, Iara Lee, Paul D. Miller (aka DJ Spooky) Workshop | Film Screening | Panel Discussion Wednesday, November 2, 2011
RSVP to WORKSHOP and FILM/PANEL: online at www. apa.nyu.edu | apa.rsvp@nyu.edu | 212.992.9653 FREE and open to the public.
A/P/A Institute asks four artists — Suheir Hammad, Sidd Joag, Iara Lee and Paul D. Miller (aka DJ Spooky) — to explore the idea of being “the change they want to see” as set forth by filmmaker Iara Lee in her film “Cultures of Resistance.” The workshop, screening and discussion will provide launching points for artists, scholars and community to come together in discussion on artistsʼ roles in global change and resistance.
WORKSHOP with Artist Sidd Joag, freeDimensional
NYU Institute for Public Knowledge
20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor
3:00PM-5:00PM
Artist Sidd Joag of freeDimensional will facilitate a workshop on its new region-specific model for providing distress services to artists and culture workers in areas of conflict. Participants will engage with the concept, purpose, structure and outcomes of Regional Triage Teams – network activators designed to advocate for and access resources on behalf of artists facing political repression as a result of their activist work.
FILM “Cultures of Resistance” dir. Iara Lee
NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò
24 West 12th Street, Auditorium
6:00PM-7:30PM
Does each gesture really make a difference? Can music and dance be weapons of peace? In 2003, on the eve of the Iraq war, director Iara Lee embarked on a journey to better understand a world increasingly embroiled in conflict and, as she saw it, heading for self-destruction. After several years, travelling over five continents, Lee encountered growing numbers of people who committed their lives to promoting change. This is their story. From Iran, where graffiti and rap became tools in fighting government repression, to Burma, where monks acting in the tradition of Gandhi take on a dictatorship, moving on to Brazil, where musicians reach out to slum kids and transform guns into guitars, and ending in Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, where photography, music, and film have given a voice to those rarely heard, “Cultures of Resistance” explores how art and creativity can be ammunition in the battle for peace and justice.
PANEL DISCUSSION
NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò,
24 West 12th Street, Auditorium
7:30PM-9PM
The film is the launching point for the post-screening panel featuring filmmaker Iara Lee (“Cultures of Resistence”), Paul D. Miller (aka DJ Spooky on the Vanuatu Pacifica Project and Tanna Center for the Arts), poet Suheir Hammad, and artist Sidd Joag. The panel will explore the role of the artist in a global society, including that of the diasporic artist. The panel will be moderated by NYU Tisch School of the Artsʼ Art & Public Policy Program chair Randy Martin.
Co-sponsored by: The Institute for Public Knowledge; Tisch School of the Arts’ Art & Public Policy Program; NYU Steinhardt Department of Art and Art Professions; NYU Students for Justice in Palestine; and the NYU Center for Media, Culture and History
KYOPO National Book Launch at 92Y/Tribeca, NYC Tonight! 7pm
Co-Sponsored by A/P/A Institute at NYU
Latest News: Free Novel – KYOPO Panelist – Marvel Comic Writer and director, Greg Pak will be giving away free copies of his latest graphic novel, Vision Machine, first come first serve.
Moderated by NY1 News Anchor, Vivian Lee.
Panelists:
Alexandra Chang, Director of Public Programs, APA NYU
Esther Paik Goodhart, Comic, Hebrew teacher, TV Producer
Greg Pak, Marvel Comic Book Writer
Jussara Lee, Fashion Designer, raised in Brazil
Kevin Kim, Politician, TV show co-host, Entrepreneur
Suk Park – Co-founder of dramafever.com <http://dramafever.com> , raised in the Canary Islands
Bios of panelists are found on the below link if you click their names in the event.
Note: Ticket Price will go back into supporting 92Y/Tribeca for venue usage as they are a non profit company that supports arts & culture.
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Project launches: September 22, 2010
Exhibition opens: October 20, 2011 – March 26, 2012
Follow Lee Mingwei’s Blog
On the day of the Chinese Moon Festival, September 22, 2010, MOCA launched Lee Mingwei’s artist project, The Travelers. Lee custom-made 100 blank notebooks for the project. Released into the world from MOCA, the books will travel around the world for one year. The books are passed from person to person like a chain letter, with each participant adding a personal story about “leaving home” at some point in their lives. Did they have a call to adventure? Did they leave willingly? Did they overcome setbacks? Did they ever return home? Each book becomes a “Traveler” in the project, who leaves the MOCA “home village” to embark on a long journey.
The project was commissioned by MOCA to launch on the first anniversary of its new home at 215 Centre Street, designed by Maya Lin. Inspired by the museum’s mission to document the epic journey of Chinese to America, and the ongoing journeys we make as Americans, the project was envisioned to actively engage the public in the spirit of MOCA’s approach over the past 30 years as a “dialogic museum”.
Participants are asked to send the books back to MOCA by the next Moon Festival, on September 12, 2011. The books that make it back to the museum, each transformed by their individual journeys, will be displayed in an evocative installation by Lee Mingwei, with all the accumulated stories accessible for visitors to read. How many Travelers return home? What kinds of stories will they be filled with on their return?
A companion website to the project (http://traveler.mocanyc.org) tracks all the books as they travel around the world. Project participants are asked to upload the current geographical location of the books, and 5 images that illustrate the story they’ve written in the book.
About the Artist
Born in Taiwan and currently living in New York City, Lee Mingwei creates both participatory installations, where strangers can explore issues of trust, intimacy, and self-awareness on their own, and one-on-one events, where visitors explore these issues with the artist himself through eating, sleeping, walking and conversation. Lee’s projects are often open-ended scenarios for everyday interaction, and take on different forms depending on the participants. Time is central to this process, as Lee’s installations often change during the course of an exhibition.
Mr Lee received an MFA from Yale University in 1997, has had solo exhibitions internationally including Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Modern Art, Taipei Museum of Contemporary Art, Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Fabric Workshop and Museum and Los Angeles County Museum of Art. He has been featured in biennials in Venice, Lyon, Liverpool (2006, 2010), Taipei, Echigo-Tsumari, the Whitney Biennial, and at the Asia Pacific Triennial. He is represented by Lombard Freid Project, New York. For more information on the artist, please visit:http://www.leemingwei.com.
The Travelers is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. The project is also made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, celebrating 50 years of building strong, creative communities in New York State’s 62 counties. It is also supported by the generosity of museum members.
Project courtesy of the artist and Lombard Freid Projects, NY
Museum of Chinese in America:
215 Centre Street, New York, NY 10013
(b/w Howard & Grand Sts; one block north of Canal St)
Arts of Pacific Asia Show 2012Asian American Women Artists Association (AAWAA) presents a vibrant selection of artworks by San Francisco Bay Area women artists. Juried by Inson Choy, former Curatorial Assistant – Korean Art Department, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. This marks AAWAA’s partnership in the Contemporary Asia Pacific Arts.
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