Upcoming 2012 exhibitions, lectures, and panel discussions:
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The Center for Interreligious Engagement Presents:
Re-Seeing Religion: (De)Colonizing Images in Hawaii, Zimbabwe and Mexico
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
6:30-8:00pm
DePaul Art Museum
935 W. Fullerton Ave.
Chicago, IL 60614
Three panelists explore the creatively difficult visual interactions among indigenous peoples and their colonizers. Drawing on oral history and family photographs, Laura Kina’s SUGAR paintings recall obake ghost stories and feature Okinawan sugar cane plantation field laborers in Hawaii. Joseph Kinsella considers the often conscious indigenization of Christianity by Zimbabwean painters and sculptors. Kay Read, using a stark contrast between pre-conquest Aztec and post-Conquest Spanish images of the Feathered Serpent, exposes the long-lasting., but influential, colonialist legacy left us by the early clerics.
Participants
Laura Kina - DePaul University, Associate Professor of Art, Media, and Design
Joseph Kinsella - DePaul University, Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Kay Read – DePaul University, Professor of Religious Studies (Panelist and Moderator)
2012 Association for Asian American Studies Conference in Washington, D.C.
April 11-14, 2012
Visit the AAAS website for details: http://aaastudies.org/content/index.php/conference/conference
Refining Revolution: Asian American Art and Activist Practices
Valerie Soe, Theodore S. Gonzalves, Emily Hanako Momohara, Laura Kina, Anthony Yooshin Kim
Against Historical Erasure: Oral History and the Politics of Representation in Asian American Studies
Thuy Vo Dang, Faye Caronan, Yuri Doolan, Natalie Newton, Viet Thanh Nguyen< Quan Tran, Laura Kina
Upcoming 2013-2014
Indigo: Laura Kina and Shelly Jyoti will be coming to the Chicago Cultural Center in 2013-2014. Details TBA.
War Baby/Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art
curated by Laura Kina and Wei Ming Dariotis
War Baby / Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art investigate constructions of mixed heritage Asian American identity in the United States. As an increasingly ethnically ambiguous Asian American generation is coming of age, the exhibition will examine how, or even if, mixed heritage Asian Americans address hybrid identities in their artwork, as well as how perspectives from critical mixed race studies illuminate intersections of racialization, war and imperialism, gender and sexuality, and citizenship and nationality.
The exhibition will feature works across diverse mediums by 19 emerging, mid-career and established artists who reflect a breadth of mixed heritage ethno-racial and geographic diversity: Mequitta Ahuja, Albert Chong, Serene Ford, Kip Fulbeck, Stuart Gaffney, Louie Gong, Jane Jin Kaisen, Lori Kay, Li-lan, Richard Lou, Samia Mirza, Chris Naka, Laurel Nakadate, Gina Osterloh, Adrienne Pao, Cristina Lei Rodriguez, Amanda Ross-Ho, Jenifer Wofford, Debra Yepa-Pappan.
Major funding for this exhibition was awarded through The National Endowment for the Arts Art Works Museums grant to DePaul University.
DePaul University Art Museum
April 26, 2013 - June 30, 2013
935 W. Fullerton
Chicago, IL 60614
773-325-7506
http://museums.depaul.edu/
Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Epxerience
August 9, 2013 - January 19, 2014
719 S. King Street
Seattle, WA 98104
206-623-5124
http://www.wingluke.org/home.htm
A related publication of the same title, also co-edited by Laura Kina and Wei Ming Dariotis, will be published by the University of Washington Press to coincide with the exhibition in 2013. This multi-author volume will feature a foreward by Kent A. Ono, a co-authored preface and introductory essay by the editors, 19 original artist interviews conducted by the editors, and original essays from Wei Ming Dariotis and the contributing authors: Camilla Fojas, Stuart Gaffney, Rudy Guevarra, Eleana Kim, Richard Lou, Margo Machida, Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu, Lori Pierce, Cathy Schlund-Vials, Ken Tanabe, and Wendy Thompson-Taiwo. Major funding for the publication has been awarded through the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation, DePaul University and San Francisco State University.
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