The Body Problem in Asian American Visuality: A Talk by Michelle Lee
GLAS Faculty Colloquium Series
October 28, 2024
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM America/Chicago
Location
Room 1050 University Hall
Address
601 S. Morgan Street, Chicago, IL 60607
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This talk explores the limits of figuration as an aesthetic category and as an ill-fated attempt to redress the problems of in/visibility and illegibility of violence against Asian women. Considering the 2022 exhibition Wonder Women, a show that featured 30 "Asian American and diasporic women and non-binary artists, as a launching point, I ask, how is injury apprehended by visibility?
Michelle Lee is an Assistant Professor of Global Asian Studies at UIC. Her research focuses on how Asian diasporic cultural producers take up aesthetic strategies that embrace the inhuman, monstrous, and abject to address everyday violences. Her current book project theorizes how the historical and ongoing disfiguration of Asian women-at once a tool of subjugation, a stubborn refusal to be wholly depicted, and a strategic performance by Asian diasporic cultural producers-connotes Asiatic femininity.
Date posted
Oct 11, 2024
Date updated
Oct 11, 2024