Feng-Mei Heberer

Asians on Demand

Mediating Race in Video Art and Activism

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Grapples with the pressing question of whether representation is enough to advance racial justice. Surveying a contemporary, cutting-edge archive of video works from the Asian diaspora in North America, Europe, and East Asia, this book uncovers the ways that diasporic artists challenge the narrowâ and damagingâ conceptions of Asian identity pervading mainstream media.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Minnesota Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 137mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 262g
• ISBN-13: 9781517914813
• ISBN-10: 1517914817
• Artikelnr.: 68100279

Autorenporträt

Feng-Mei Heberer is assistant professor of cinema studies at New York University.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Introduction: Asians on Demand and the Refusal to Represent
1. Improper Asiatische Deutsche: The Video Art of Ming Wong and Hito
Steyerl
2. Mental Health and Live Fictions: Kristina Wong and Wong Flew Over the
Cuckoo’s Nest
3. Stateless Cinema and the Undocument: Miko Revereza, Distancing, and No
Data Plan
4. Migrant Erotics: TIWA’s Lesbian Factory and Rainbow Popcorn
5. Me llamo Peng: Self-Care with a Camcorder
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index