Stormy Winds and Southern Comfort(s): On Categories, Strategies, and Cartographies

作     者：Viet Le Lan Duong 

作者机构：Calif Coll Arts Visual Studies Program Oakland CA 94618 USA Univ Southern Calif Dept Cinema & Media Studies Los Angeles CA USA 

出 版 物：《VISUAL ANTHROPOLOGY》 (影视人类学)

年 卷 期：2018年第31卷第1-2期

页      面：1-8页

学科分类：0303[法学-社会学] 03[法学] 030303[法学-人类学] 

摘      要：How do we see Southeast Asian and diasporic visual culture today? This is the central question we ask in the Introduction to this special issue of Visual Anthropology. To answer the question, we trouble the geographic designation of Southeast Asia and how the region s arts and culture have traveled and are received at the present moment. We posit that we need to see Southeast Asia and its diasporas differently. Most notably, we argue that through the lens of gender and sexuality we can better visualize and analyze the critical and creative strategies of artists and writers situated in many parts of the world. We foreground the collected essays, art pieces and poetry that query what it means to labor for the state, the art world or the academy. And as we emphasize, the collection brings together-in color, in varying compositions, in long and short form-the dynamism of art and media texts in all of their complex circulations.