Asian American Artists in California Symposium, Panel 2

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Yong Soon Min

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Yong Soon Min immigrated to this country in 1960 at the age of seven from South Korea. She is Assistant Professor of Studio Art at Irvine, and a recipient of a Visual Artists Fellowship Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Ranging in media fr om photography to installations, her work has been exhibited in the U.S. and abroad, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art/New York City, Camerawork Gallery/London, Kumho Museum/Seoul, Fourth Baguio Art Festival/Philippines, Museum Folkwang/Germany, and in two Havana Biennials/Cuba

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Viet Le

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Viet Le is an artist, creative writer, and independent curator. His research interests center on visual studies, ethnography, queer theory and Asian/ Asian American studies. Le received his BFA in Fine Art from CSU Fullerton and his MFA in Studio Art from UC Irvine, where he also taught. He is currently working on his dissertation on trauma, contemporary art, memory, AIDS and representation in Southeast Asia and its diasporas. He has received fellowships from the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, Fulbright Foundation, William Joiner Center, Banff Centre, Fine Arts Work Center, and PEN Center USA.

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Reanne Estrada

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Estrada, born in Manila, Philippines, now resides and works in Los Angeles, CA. Estrada's unique work establishes a balance between the two and three dimensional worlds. Her process-intensive work is a comfortable combination of high-relief drawing and low-relief sculpture. These handmade pieces defy the information overload that is just part of everyday life in today's digital society. Recalling the traditional task of creating art by hand gives her art a touch of delicate sensitivity. Her idea of the continual process of renewal of the body coincides with her continuously morphing art.

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Readymade

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Readymade or ready-made - An object manufactured for some other purpose, presented by an artist as a work of art. Between 1914 and 1921, Marcel Duchamp (French, 1887-1968), who originated this concept, selected and signed, among others, a snow shovel, a comb, and a urinal. He occasionally altered readymades (sometimes called assisted readymades) — the most famous of which was a cheap reproduction of Mona Lisa on which Duchamp drew a mustache.

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Cell Phone Novel

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Cell phone or mobile phone novels called keitai shousetsu in Japanese, are the first literary genre to emerge from the cellular age via text messaging. Phone novels started out primarily read and authored by young Japanese women, on the subject of romantic fiction such as relationships, lovers, rape, love triangles, and pregnancy. However, mobile phone novels are trickling their way to a worldwide popularity on all subjects. Japanese ethos of the Internet regarding mobile phone novels are dominated by false names and forged identities.

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The Host

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The film revolves around Park Hee-bong, a man in his late 60s. Park runs a small snack bar on the banks of the Han River and lives with his two sons, one daughter, and one granddaughter. The Parks seem to lead a quite ordinary and peaceful life, but maybe a bit poorer than the average Seoulite. Hee-bong's elder son Gang-du is an immature and incompetent man in his 40s, whose wife left home long ago. Nam-il is the youngest son, an unemployed grumbler, and daughter Nam-joo is an archery medalist and member of the national team.

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On the Road

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On the Road is a novel by American writer Jack Kerouac, written in April 1951, and published by Viking Press in 1957. It is a largely autobiographical work that was based on the spontaneous road trips of Kerouac and his friends across mid-century America. It is often considered a defining work of the postwar Beat Generation that was inspired by jazz, poetry, and drug experiences. While many of the names and details of Kerouac's experiences are changed for the novel, hundreds of references in On the Road have real-world counterparts.

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Filipino Rock

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Pinoy Rock, or Filipino Rock, is the brand of Rock music produced in the Philippines or by Filipinos. It has become as diverse as the Rock music genre itself, and bands adopting this style are now further classified under more specific genres or combinations of genres like Alternative rock, Post-grunge, Ethnic, New Wave, Pop rock, Punk rock, Funk, Reggae, Heavy metal and Ska. Because these genres are generally considered to fall under the broad Rock music category, Filipino Rock may be more specifically defined as Rock music with Filipino cultural sensibilities.

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Mail Order Brides

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If you share the common idea that there are no original creative ideas left, the work of the Mail Order Brides (M.O.B.) might cause you to reconsider. The local collective approaches art with a unique brand of humor, camp and high drama. Making art intended to unveil and investigate Filipino culture, Filipina-American artists Reanne Estrada, Eliza Barrios and Jenifer Wofford thrive on dressing up and acting out campy send-ups of Filipino-American life.

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Galleon Trade

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Galleon Trade is a series of international arts exchange projects, focusing on the Philippines, Mexico, and California. Taking the historic Acapulco-Manila galleon route as its metaphor of origin, these exhibitions seek to create new routes of cultural exchange along old routes of commerce and trade.

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Quiapo

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Quiapo is a district of Manila, Philippines, also referred to as the "old downtown." It is known for its cheap prices on items ranging from electronics, bicycles to native handicrafts.

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Historic Filipinotown

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Historic Filipinotown, is a newly created district of the City of Los Angeles, California, that makes up the southern portion of Echo Park, Los Angeles, California. Specifically, the district is bounded by the Hollywood Freeway (US 101 Freeway 9) to the north, Beverly Boulevard to the south, Hoover Street to the west, and Glendale Boulevard to the east, northwest of Downtown Los Angeles.

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Hypercities

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Built on the idea that every past is a place, HyperCities is a digital research and educational platform for exploring, learning about, and interacting with the layered histories of city and global spaces. Developed though collaboration between UCLA and USC, the fundamental idea behind HyperCities is that all stories take place somewhere and sometime; they become meaningful when they interact and intersect with other stories.

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Transnationalism

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Transnationalism as an economic process involves the global reorganization of the production process, in which various stages of the production of any product can occur in various countries, typically with the aim of minimizing costs. Economic transnationalism, commonly known as Globalization was spurred in the latter half of the 20th century by the development of the internet and wireless communication, as well as the reduction in global transportation costs caused by containerization.

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Highways Performance Space

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Highways Performance Space is Southern California’s boldest center for new performance. In its twenty-first year, Highways continues to be an important alternative cultural center in Los Angeles that encourages fierce new artists from diverse communities to develop and present innovative works.

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Agent Orange

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Agent Orange is the code name for a herbicide and defoliant used by the U.S. military in its Herbicidal Warfare program during the Vietnam War. More than 21,000,000 US gallons (79,000,000 L) of Agent Orange were sprayed across South Vietnam.

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Dow Chemical, Agent Orange and Vietnam

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Notorious for their 1960’s production of the lethal Vietnam War defoliant, Agent Orange, and more recently for acquiring Union Carbide's still-unresolved Bhopal legacy (see below), Dow Chemical today is among the world’s largest chemical manufacturers, and a major source of many of the world’s most toxic compounds, including pesticides, plastics and solvents. Not unlike Enron or Halliburton, Dow’s story is one of corporate power brokering and lack of public accountability.

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Jacques Louis David

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The art of Jacques-Louis David embodies the style known as Neoclassicism, which flourished in France during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. David championed a style of rigorous contours, sculpted forms, and polished surfaces; history paintings, such as his Lictors Returning to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons (Musée du Louvre, Paris) of 1789, were intended as moral exemplars.

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Douglas Crimp- Melancholia and Moralism

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In Melancholia and Moralism, Douglas Crimp confronts the conservative gay politics that replaced the radical AIDS activism of the late 1980s and early 1990s. He shows that the cumulative losses from AIDS, including the waning of militant response, have resulted in melancholia as Freud defined it: gay men's dangerous identification with the moralistic repudiation of homosexuality by the wider society.

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DVAN: Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network

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Some of our Board members used to be a part of a San Francisco-based organization called Ink and Blood ("Muc va Mau"), which was active from 1994 to 2000. The mission of that organization was to promote the works of Vietnamese American writers, poets and painters. Ink and Blood organized numerous events and art exhibits throughout the Bay Area for six years. We were then graduate students, artists and organizers. Years later, now professionals, we want to join forces and bring our skills, knowledge and access to institutions back to a cause we still believe in.

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Philipino Workers Center

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Pilipino Workers' Center was formed in 1997, on the idea that all individuals deserve a high quality of life. This means that we are entitled to safe working conditions, living wages, decent living conditions, access to quality healthcare and basic human dignity.

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Viet Nguyen

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Viet Thanh Nguyen is an associate professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America (Oxford University Press, 2002). His articles have appeared in numerous journals and books, including PMLA, American Literary History, Western American Literature, positions: east asia cultures critique, The New Centennial Review, Postmodern Culture, and Asian American Studies After Critical Mass.

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Channels: Asian Art Contemporary Art Reanne Estrada Talks Viet Lê Yong Soon Min

From the Chinese photographers of the gold rush to contemporary video artists, men and women of Asian descent have produced a rich, diverse body of artwork. Examining the lives and work of artists past and present offers insights into issues of cultural hybridity, race, social climate, and transnationalism. This symposium celebrates the publication of Asian American Art: A History, 1850–1970 and is one of the events commemorating the 40th Anniversary of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center and other ethnic studies centers at UCLA. For the second panel, contemporary artists Reanne Estrada, Yong Soon Min, and Viet Lê discuss their work within a transnational context. Moderated by Aimee Chang, Director of Academic and Residency Programs at the Hammer Museum.

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