Brown Gathering
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16705285 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Adrian De Leon (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 125-158 |
| Publication date | 2024-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Qui Parle (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1041-8385 • E-ISSN: 1938-8020 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/10418385-11125515 |
| OpenAlex | W4399724102 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 21 |
Through a sustained engagement with The Precarious Life of the Parol, an installation art exhibition by the Filipinx artist Diane Williams, this essay theorizes “brown gathering”: a quotidian practice of archiving that mobilizes the kinship networks of minoritarian subjects as an affective and circulatory infrastructure of collecting, preserving, and (re)signifying the objects of brown life. Brown gathering simultaneously attests to the intimacies of state violence and the practices of minoritarian subjects. In Parol, named after a Filipinx Christmas ornament of Spanish and native origin, Williams turns toward this curatorial practice of making art with trash objects as a way to reckon with the archival absences of Philippine history. This investigation of Williams’s pieces, all made from trash objects that her family donated to her, concerns three categories: skeletal frames (wood and wire), used to explore archives of excess and mess; plastics, used to speak about the temporality of diaspora; and discarded food containers (SPAM cans and sauce mixes), used to theorize the politics of the brown body. These objects, like the brown subjects that signify them, are testaments to the ongoing plunder of empire and to what empire jettisons around the world
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Diaspora · Empire · Ephemera · Epistemology · Exhibition · Kinship · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Special collections · State (computer science · Temporality · Visual arts · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Computer Science · Gender Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Law · Philippine History and Culture · Philosophy
City of Quartz
Coolie Woman
Allegories of the Anthropocene
Under Representation
Unruly Visions
Migrants for Export
The Anarchy of Empire in the Making of U.S. Culture
Queering the Global Filipina Body
Following La Pieta
The Blood of Government
Decolonization, “Race,” And Remaindered Life Under Empire
Pollution Is Colonialism
Purity and Danger
Things Fall Away
The "Stuff" of Archives
Suspended Apocalypse
The Sovereign Trickster
Intimacy
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |