Susette Min
Biographic Data
| ID | 3625992 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susette Min |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susette |
| FAMILY NAME | Min |
| SIGNATURE | MIN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Davis |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Anti-Asian Violence
A Multitude of Soliloquies
A Host of Possibilities
In 2012, Okwui Enwezor was appointed artistic director of the third iteration of La Triennale, which he titled Intense Proximité (IP). While Enwezor had the credentials to legitimize the French art scene, he was also keenly aware of his own revolving roles as guest and host. This article considers his exhibition-making practice within the context of hospitality. Conventionally, hospitality entails warmly welcoming guests to make themselves at hom…
Unnamable
Redraws the contours of Asian American art, attempting to free it from a categorization that stifles more than it reveals. Charting its historical conditions and the expansive contexts of its emergence, Susette Min challenges the notion of Asian American art as a site of reconciliation or as a way for marginalized artists to enter into the canon or mainstream art scene. Pressing critically on the politics of visibility and how this categorization…
Unnamable Encounters
The Vanishing Acts of Nikki S. Lee and Tehching Hsieh
Gleaning the Art Practices of Simon Leung and Mary Lum
Formal Actions
Homeland Insecurities
Beginning in 2015, an influx of more than a million undocumented migrants and refugees from Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Sudan, and other countriesnumbers not seen since World War ii-crossed into Europe over land via the Balkans and across the Adriatic, Aegean, and Mediterranean Seas. Currently, there are more than 67 million refugees on the move, forced to migrate due to a number of factors-ongoing wars and violence, climate change, repressive gove…
Queering Contemporary Asian American Art
Queering Contemporary Asian American Art takes Asian American differences as its point of departure, and brings together artists and scholars to challenge normative assumptions, essentialisms, and methodologies within Asian American art and visual culture. Taken together, these nine original artist interviews, cutting-edge visual artworks, and seven critical essays explore contemporary currents and experiences within Asian American art, including…
Biopower, Space, and Race in Asian American Studies
Three recent books explore the interdisciplinary connections between, respectively, spatial politics, biopolitics, and Afro-Asian dynamics in Asian American literature and culture. Xiaojing Zhou explores the poetics and politics of space in Asian American urban literature from the late nineteenth century to the present. Rachel Lee interrogates how a biopolitical framework can reorient the ways the field of Asian American studies approaches race, …
W ar B aby /L ove C hild
(2014). War Baby/Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art. Edited by Laura Kina and Wei Ming Dariotis. Amerasia Journal: Vol. 40, Asian American Religions in a Globalized World, pp. 107-110
Entropic Designs
Entropic Designs: A Review of Maya Lin: Systematic Landscapes and Asian/American/Modern ArtShifting Currents, 1900-1970 at the de Young Museum Susette Min (bio) Maya Lin: Systematic Landscapes. Organized by the Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, April 22-September 3, 2006; Contemporary Museum, St. Louis, September 7-December 30, 2007; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, March 29-June 30, 2008; de Young Museum, San Francisco, October …
Aesthetics
The essay focuses on Social Text's lack of engagement with aesthetics as a point of departure to think about art and politics in the wake of the culture wars, the intensification of globalization, and the aftermath of 9/11. The essay concludes with a forceful argument for a (re)turn to the aesthetic both within the journal and in cultural discourse in general
Tonal Disturbances
This selection of recent artwork explores the disquieting and overwhelming silence regarding those who have disappeared and been detained since 9/11. Through music and drawing, low-tech art and text, artists Jenny Perlin and Visible Collective/Naeem Mohaiemen and Aimara Lin question in multifarious ways the war on terror and its effects
Biopower, Space, and Race in Asian American Studies
Three recent books explore the interdisciplinary connections between, respectively, spatial politics, biopolitics, and Afro-Asian dynamics in Asian American literature and culture. Xiaojing Zhou explores the poetics and politics of space in Asian American urban literature from the late nineteenth century to the present. Rachel Lee interrogates how a biopolitical framework can reorient the ways the field of Asian American studies approaches race, …
Tonal Disturbances
This selection of recent artwork explores the disquieting and overwhelming silence regarding those who have disappeared and been detained since 9/11. Through music and drawing, low-tech art and text, artists Jenny Perlin and Visible Collective/Naeem Mohaiemen and Aimara Lin question in multifarious ways the war on terror and its effects
Entropic Designs
Entropic Designs: A Review of Maya Lin: Systematic Landscapes and Asian/American/Modern ArtShifting Currents, 1900-1970 at the de Young Museum Susette Min (bio) Maya Lin: Systematic Landscapes. Organized by the Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, April 22-September 3, 2006; Contemporary Museum, St. Louis, September 7-December 30, 2007; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, March 29-June 30, 2008; de Young Museum, San Francisco, October …
Aesthetics
The essay focuses on Social Text's lack of engagement with aesthetics as a point of departure to think about art and politics in the wake of the culture wars, the intensification of globalization, and the aftermath of 9/11. The essay concludes with a forceful argument for a (re)turn to the aesthetic both within the journal and in cultural discourse in general
W ar B aby /L ove C hild
(2014). War Baby/Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art. Edited by Laura Kina and Wei Ming Dariotis. Amerasia Journal: Vol. 40, Asian American Religions in a Globalized World, pp. 107-110
Biopower, Space, and Race in Asian American Studies
Three recent books explore the interdisciplinary connections between, respectively, spatial politics, biopolitics, and Afro-Asian dynamics in Asian American literature and culture. Xiaojing Zhou explores the poetics and politics of space in Asian American urban literature from the late nineteenth century to the present. Rachel Lee interrogates how a biopolitical framework can reorient the ways the field of Asian American studies approaches race, …
Homeland Insecurities
Beginning in 2015, an influx of more than a million undocumented migrants and refugees from Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Sudan, and other countriesnumbers not seen since World War ii-crossed into Europe over land via the Balkans and across the Adriatic, Aegean, and Mediterranean Seas. Currently, there are more than 67 million refugees on the move, forced to migrate due to a number of factors-ongoing wars and violence, climate change, repressive gove…
Queering Contemporary Asian American Art
Queering Contemporary Asian American Art takes Asian American differences as its point of departure, and brings together artists and scholars to challenge normative assumptions, essentialisms, and methodologies within Asian American art and visual culture. Taken together, these nine original artist interviews, cutting-edge visual artworks, and seven critical essays explore contemporary currents and experiences within Asian American art, including…
Unnamable
Redraws the contours of Asian American art, attempting to free it from a categorization that stifles more than it reveals. Charting its historical conditions and the expansive contexts of its emergence, Susette Min challenges the notion of Asian American art as a site of reconciliation or as a way for marginalized artists to enter into the canon or mainstream art scene. Pressing critically on the politics of visibility and how this categorization…
Unnamable Encounters
The Vanishing Acts of Nikki S. Lee and Tehching Hsieh
Gleaning the Art Practices of Simon Leung and Mary Lum
Formal Actions
A Host of Possibilities
In 2012, Okwui Enwezor was appointed artistic director of the third iteration of La Triennale, which he titled Intense Proximité (IP). While Enwezor had the credentials to legitimize the French art scene, he was also keenly aware of his own revolving roles as guest and host. This article considers his exhibition-making practice within the context of hospitality. Conventionally, hospitality entails warmly welcoming guests to make themselves at hom…
A Multitude of Soliloquies
Anti-Asian Violence
Art (7 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (5 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Visual arts (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art history (3 works) · Art, Politics, and Modernism (3 works) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (3 works)