Contemporary Queer Chinese Art

Herausgeber: Bao, Hongwei; Zhao, Jamie J; Mergenthaler, Diyi

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Produktbeschreibung

Contemporary Queer Chinese Art is the first English-language academic book that explores the intersections of queer culture and contemporary Chinese art from the mid-1980s to the present. This book brings together 15 internationally renowned artists, activists, curators and scholars to explore heterogeneous expressions of Chineseness and queerness in contemporary art from China and Chinese diasporas in Asia, Europe and North America. Examining contemporary visual art, performance and activism, this book offers a rich archive of queer Chinese artistic expressions. It provides valuable insights into the status quo and intersectional struggles of Chinese artists who identify themselves as queer and who have associated their work with queer positionalities and perspectives. By sharing personal experiences, art expressions and critical insights about what it means to be queer and Chinese in a transnational context, the book reveals multiple forms and potentialities of queer politics in the domains of art and activism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Januar 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781350333567
• ISBN-10: 1350333565
• Artikelnr.: 69918888

Autorenporträt

Hongwei Bao is an Associate Professor in Media Studies at the University of Nottingham, UK, where he also directs the Centre for Contemporary East Asian Cultural Studies. He is also a research associate of the Birmingham School of Art. Bao is the author of Queer Comrades, Queer China and Queer Media in China. Diyi Mergenthaler is a PhD candidate at the Institute of Art History at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. Jamie J. Zhao is Assistant Professor in Media and Cultural Studies in the School of Creative Media at City University of Hong Kong, HKSAR.

Inhaltsangabe

1.What is Queer About Queer Chinese Art? (Hongwei Bao, Diyi Mergenthaler
and Jamie J. Zhao) Part I Queering Forms, Materials and Traditions
2.Same-Sex Love: A 'Frog in The Well' Looking for A Wider Sky (Xiyadie)
3.The Art of Vulnerability: Vulnerability as a Communication Device in
Kinbaku (Bohan Gandalf Li) 4.A Child Taught Me How to Paint Dingding (Wei
Yimu) Part II Feminist Interventions 5. Body Portraits (Ma Yanhong) 6.My
Words to the World: Three Artwork Series (Shi Tou) 7.From Feminist
Artmaking to Queer Image Writing (Li Xinmo) 8.Radical Art or Radical
Activism?: My Queer and Feminist Campaigns (Wei Tingting) Part III
Feminist, Queer and Trans Curation 9.Women's Arts Festival: Feminist
Curating in Contemporary China (Jiete Li and Claire Ping) 10.Secret Love:
Visualizing Identity, Sexuality and Norms in Chinese Art (Si Han) 11.After
Spectrosynthesis: Asian LGBTQ Issues and Art Now? (Brian Curtin) 12.Between
Fringe and Canon: The Trans-Motifs of Fen-Ma Liuming (Diyi Mergenthaler)
Part IV Transnational and Diaspora Queer Art 13.Too Much and Not Yet
Enough: Burong Zeng's Theatre and Live Art Works (Burong Zeng) 14.The Mouth
Wide Opens and Shuts: Queer Foodism and Identity (Popo Fan) 15.Imagining
Queer Bandung: Creating a Transnational and Decolonial Queer Space (Hongwei
Bao) About the Contributors