Published Sep/Oct issue of ArtAsiaPacific. To read the full article, click here.
“At the outset of Queering Contemporary Asian Americna Art, late scholar-curator describes Asian American artists, scholars and activists as “the termites of art history.” Though perhaps an unflattering metaphor, termites are indefatigable and collaborative insects, gathering to gnaw at and eventually erode entire structures—or, in this case, what co-editors Laura Kina and Jan Christian Bernabe call the “white hegemonic pillars of art practice, history and criticism.””