California College of the Arts & the 2014 Association for Asian American Studies National Conference present:
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I. PRESENTATIONS + CONVERSATION 630-730pm:
"Arts & Activism in Asia/ America"
Lan Duong, Philip Kan Gotanda, Glen Helfand & Masahiro Sugano
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II. CELEBRATION 730-9pm
CCA Reception ***Celebrating 35 Years of AAAS***
(no-host bar, food & dancing | guest DJ Jeff)
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Free & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, All Welcome
Grand Hyatt San Francis...
California College of the Arts & the 2014 Association for Asian American Studies National Conference present:
____________________
I. PRESENTATIONS + CONVERSATION 630-730pm:
"Arts & Activism in Asia/ America"
Lan Duong, Philip Kan Gotanda, Glen Helfand & Masahiro Sugano
........
II. CELEBRATION 730-9pm
CCA Reception ***Celebrating 35 Years of AAAS***
(no-host bar, food & dancing | guest DJ Jeff)
.............................
Free & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, All Welcome
Grand Hyatt San Francisco, 36th floor, Bayview
345 Stockton Street, San Francisco, CA 94108
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Can individuals and institutions make a difference, when questioning difference?
As curators, scholars, artists and activists working in Asia, America and in-between, these presenters challenge national policies and the politics of community and identity.
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Lan Duong (curator, editor | Associate Professor, Media and Cultural Studies, UC Riverside) reflects on the Little Saigon community protests and mainstream mass media (mis) representation surrounding "FOB II" (2009, Vietnamese Arts & Letters Association). Professor Duong will also talk about the pioneering anthology "Southeast Asian Women in the Diaspora: Troubling Borders in Literature and Art" (2013) and its companion exhibition.
Philip Kan Gotanda (playwright/ filmmaker | Professor, Department of Theater Dance and Performance Studies, UC Berkeley) reflects on his advocacy work and his pioneering cross-discplinary creative work, which has been instrumental in bringing stories of Asians in the United States to American theater as well as to Europe and Asia.
Glen Helfand (independent writer, critic, curator, educator | California College of the Arts, Mills College, San Francisco Art Institute) discusses the three-part exhibition "Promimities" (2013-14, Asian Art Museum), in which contemporary Bay Area artists respond to the question: what is Asia? He has curated exhibitions for the De Young Museum, San Francisco; the San Jose Museum of Art; the Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena; Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco; Dust Gallery, Las Vegas; and the Mills College Art Museum, Oakland.
Masahiro Sugano (filmmaker | Studio Revolt, Phnom Penh) shares his films dealing with Cambodian deportees, including "Cambodian Son" (2014); "My Asian Americana" (2011), which was censored by the White House; and its follow-up, "Return to Sender" (2012). Sugano is part of an artist-run media lab with Anida Yoeu Ali, Studio Revolt, based in Phnom Penh, Osaka and Chicago.
Moderated & organized by Việt Lê, artist, curator, writer | Assistant Professor, Visual Studies, California College of the Arts.
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info/ questions: Please contact Việt vle@cca.edu