To Infinity and Beyond
Life and Death Matters in Asian Americanist Art Critique and Jae Rhim Lee's Mushroom Burial Suit
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12469669 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Emily Hue (0000-0003-0450-5092, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 339-356 |
| Publication date | 2023-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Asian American Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1096-8598 • E-ISSN: 1097-2129 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/jaas.2023.a913083 |
| OpenAlex | W4388950431 |
| Language | EN |
This essay explores designer JR Lee's "mushroom death suit" and filmmaker Grace Lee's short film "Suiting Dennis" as part of a subcultural movement amongst environmental activists, sustainable designers, and public health advocates to create public awareness of alternative green choices to Western burial practices. In the urgency to leave a lighter carbon footprint on the planet—not just in life, but in death—what role do non-Western epistemologies and Asian Americanist critiques of postmortem enlightenment play in contemporary movements to "green" death
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Carbon Footprint · Enlightenment · Film director · Mushroom · Sociology · Theology · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Japanese History and Culture · Philosophy · Ecology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |