Why are they so afraid of the lotus?

Nguyen, Kim (Curator), (editor.). Gerrity, Jeanne, (editor.). CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, (publisher.).

Summary: "Driven by the central question "What are we learning from artists today?" the second volume of "A Series of Open Questions" is informed by themes found in the work of Trinh T. Minh-ha, such as cultural hybridization and fluidity of identity, digital and migratory aesthetics, memory and landscape, decentered realities, feminist approaches to storytelling, meditations on death and myth, post-coloniality and decolonization, and women's work as related to cultural politics. The contributions embody Trinh's own weariness around categorization and investigate the ways production can come from and be based in positions of unknowing"--Publisher's description.

Record details

ISBN: 9783956795695
ISBN: 3956795695
Physical Description: 256 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
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Publisher: San Francisco, Calif. : CCA Wattis Institute, Sternberg Press, [2021]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

The end of you / Divya Mehra -- If you think 'no politics here' you are wrong / Leslie Marmon Silko -- [selection from Woman, Native, other : writing postcoloniality and feminism] / Trinh T. Minh-ha -- Forms of politeness / Mei-mei Berssenbrugge -- [selection from For an imperfect cinema] / Julio Garc©Ưa Espinosa -- The centers of somewhere / Sky Hopinka -- Listening nearly / Ranu Mukherjee -- [selection from Unexplained presence] / Tisa Bryant -- [selection from 808s & heartbreak] / Katherine McKittrick & Alexander G. Weheliye -- [selection from A dying colonialism] / Frantz Fanon -- [selection from In the wake] / Christina Sharpe -- Leaky sentences workbook activity / Kameelah Janan Rasheed -- [selection from Dark matters : on the surveillance of Blackness] / Simone Browne -- Asian futures, without Asians / Astria Suparak -- White people / Christine Wang -- Poems from Incorrect merciful impulses / Camille Rankine -- Reframing the Palestinian landscape : Yazan Khalili's landscape of darkness and blindness of love / Kathy Zarur -- [selection from A map to the door of no return] / Dionne Brand -- Paragraphs / Renee Gladman -- [selections from Before dispossession, surviving it / Angie Morrill, Eve Tuck, and the Super Futures Haunt Qollective -- of castles in Spain / tamara suarez porras -- Tian'anmen sonnet / Wendy Xu -- [selection from Before I was a critic I was a human being] / Amy Fung -- How to manifest ice cream on demand : the Afrosurreal impulse / Shylah Pacheco Hamilton -- On Lorraine Hansberry's What use are flowers? / Steffani Jemison -- Chronology / Theresa Hak Kyung Cha.