The Future Of Asian Art Symposium
- Organizer: A/P/A Institute at NYU
- Venue: A/P/A Institute at NYU, 7th Floor Gallery
- Address:
41-51 East 11th Street
New York, NY 10003 United States
Keynote:
Between the Diasporic and the Transnational
Dean Chan Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia
This symposium investigates the increasingly transnational nature of Asian art and the circulation of artists and art production in multiple global markets. The focus on Asian diasporic visual culture will include panels with scholars from the International Network for Diasporic Asian Art Research and the Diasporic Asian Art Network.
About the Keynote:
Dean Chan is a professor in the postgraduate programmes at the School of Communications and Arts, Edith Cowan University, in Perth, Australia. He is the founding convenor of the International Network for Diasporic Asian Art Research (INDAAR), and an executive member of the Asian Australian Studies Research Network and convenor of its Visual Arts and New Media cluster. Chan is a chief investigator in an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Project entitled “Being Asian in Australia and the United States” and a guest editor of a special issue of Amerasia Journal (2010) titled “Asian Australia and Asian America: Making Transnational Connections.” He has most recently been appointed as Editor of the Diasporic Asia section in Asian Studies Review, a scholarly journal published by Routledge.
Response and discussion with Melissa Chiu
Museum Director and Vice President of Global Art Programs, Asia Society
Panel I: Organized by the International Network for Diasporic Asian Art Research
“Locating Globalism: The Diasporic Contexts of Asian Art”
Alice Ming Wai Jim, Concordia University at Montreal The Paradox of Diasporic Asian Art from a Global Perspective�
Yu Yeon Kim, Independent Curator
Jacqueline Lo, Australian National University The Limit of Professional Foreignness: Memory, Migrancy and the Asian Diasporic Artist
Chair: Dean Chan, Edith Cowan University
Panel II: Organized by the Diasporic Asian Art Network
Asian American Art and Global Flows
Midori Yoshimoto, New Jersey City University and Galleries What Does It Mean to be a Diasporic Japanese Woman Artist Today? The Case Study of Chiharu Shiota
Laura Kina, DePaul University Field work and sewing signs
Chair: Alexandra Chang, A/P/A Institute at NYU The Art of Cosmopolitanism A Translocal Positionality
Discussants:
Margo Machida, University of Connecticut at Storrs
Tom Looser, NYU East Asian Studies