Monstrous Territories, Queer Propositions
Negotiating The Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, between Australia, the Philippines, and Other (Island) Worlds
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22346751 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michelle Antoinette (0000-0002-4964-0207, Australian National University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 54-85 |
| Publication date | 2017-03-14 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2352-3077 • E-ISSN: 2352-3085 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/23523085-00302004 |
| OpenAlex | W2613294553 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 12 |
For the 8th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art ( apt ) (2015–16), Sydney-based artists Justin Shoulder and Bhenji Ra collaborated to present Ex Nilalang , a series of filmic and live portraits exploring Philippine mythology and marginalized identities. The artists’ shared Filipino ancestry, attachments to the Filipino diasporic community, and investigations into “Philippine-ness” offer obvious cultural connections to the “Asia Pacific” concerns of the apt . However, their aesthetic interests in inhabiting fictional spaces marked by the “fantastic” and the “monstrous”—alongside the lived reality of their critical queer positions and life politics—complicate any straightforward identification. If the Philippine archipelago and island continent of Australia are intersecting cultural contexts for their art, the artists’ queering of identity in art and life emphasizes a range of cultural orientations informing subjectivities, always under negotiation and transformation, and at once both the product of and in excess of these (island) territories
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Archipelago · Art · Art history · Geography · Literature · Mythology · Negotiation · Political science · Politics · Portrait · Queer · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Cinema and Media Studies · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Gender Studies · History · Law · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts
Fear of a queer planet
Mega-Exhibitions, New Publics, and Asian Art Biennials
Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex
The Monstrous-Feminine
Gender Trouble
Constellations of the contemporary
Ecrits
I would rather be a cyborg than a goddess
Visual essentialism and the object of visual culture
Intimate Pasts Resurrected and Released
Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence
Queer Theory and Sociology
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |