Claire Chun
Biographic Data
| ID | 6650063 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Claire Chun |
| GIVEN NAMES | Claire |
| FAMILY NAME | Chun |
| SIGNATURE | CHUN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Glass Skin
By taking Korean glass skin as a global bodily aesthetic and cultural object celebrated for its “purity” and “transparency,” this essay engages interdisciplinary artist TJ Shin’s multimedia installation Universal Skin Salvation (2018) and visual artist LaRissa Rogers’s ceramic installation Of eaters and the eaten (2023). Through a close reading of these works, I explore how glass skin as a global bodily aesthetic rubs up against ongoing Cold War …
Monstrous Beauty
This paper offers a close reading of interdisciplinary visual artist kate-hers rhee ’s The Multiverse Portraits (2015–2016), a multimedia installation that incorporates photography and drawing in its speculative representation of rhee ’s body across imagined parallel universes. I analyze the ways in which rhee appropriates ethnographic tropes and methods as an embodied mode of diasporic critique. By tracing the spectre and spectacle of artificial…
Yellow Peril and Techno-orientalism in the Time of Covid-19
The essay examines the rise of anti-Asian aggression within the converging vectors of the pandemic, the escalation of the U.S.-China trade war, and the growing concerns about cyber- and techno-security. By analyzing the techniques and effects of race-making in the current pandemic moment and connecting them to historical antecedents, we trace the persistence of the yellow peril ideology across different contexts. We argue that the yellow peril id…
Yellow Peril and Techno-orientalism in the Time of Covid-19
The essay examines the rise of anti-Asian aggression within the converging vectors of the pandemic, the escalation of the U.S.-China trade war, and the growing concerns about cyber- and techno-security. By analyzing the techniques and effects of race-making in the current pandemic moment and connecting them to historical antecedents, we trace the persistence of the yellow peril ideology across different contexts. We argue that the yellow peril id…
Yellow Peril and Techno-orientalism in the Time of Covid-19
The essay examines the rise of anti-Asian aggression within the converging vectors of the pandemic, the escalation of the U.S.-China trade war, and the growing concerns about cyber- and techno-security. By analyzing the techniques and effects of race-making in the current pandemic moment and connecting them to historical antecedents, we trace the persistence of the yellow peril ideology across different contexts. We argue that the yellow peril id…
Monstrous Beauty
This paper offers a close reading of interdisciplinary visual artist kate-hers rhee ’s The Multiverse Portraits (2015–2016), a multimedia installation that incorporates photography and drawing in its speculative representation of rhee ’s body across imagined parallel universes. I analyze the ways in which rhee appropriates ethnographic tropes and methods as an embodied mode of diasporic critique. By tracing the spectre and spectacle of artificial…
Glass Skin
By taking Korean glass skin as a global bodily aesthetic and cultural object celebrated for its “purity” and “transparency,” this essay engages interdisciplinary artist TJ Shin’s multimedia installation Universal Skin Salvation (2018) and visual artist LaRissa Rogers’s ceramic installation Of eaters and the eaten (2023). Through a close reading of these works, I explore how glass skin as a global bodily aesthetic rubs up against ongoing Cold War …
Beauty (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Adornment (1 work) · Adversary (1 work) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Anthropology (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Art history (1 work) · Artificiality (1 work)