{"id":57032,"date":"2015-10-28T07:00:39","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T11:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=57032"},"modified":"2015-09-27T21:24:25","modified_gmt":"2015-09-28T01:24:25","slug":"the-artist-invented-luis-francia-and-midori-yamamura","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=57032","title":{"rendered":"The Artist, Invented: Luis Francia and Midori Yamamura"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wednesday, October 28 7PM to 9PM
\nAsian American Writers\u2019 Workshop
\n110-112 West 27th Street, Suite 600, New York, NY 10001
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Poet and nonfiction writer Luis Francia muses on his most pressing preoccupations: colonial history, contemporary politics, and the arts. Moving between Salman Rushdie\u2019s first post-fatwa appearance in the United States to Aung San Suu Kyi\u2019s release from house arrest in Burma and reaching back to Jos\u00e9 Rizal\u2019s late-19th century visits to Spain, each essay in Francia\u2019s RE: Recollections, Reviews, Reflections (University of the Philippines Press, July 2015) reflects the writer\u2019s consciousness at a particular moment in time.<\/p>\n

In Yayoi Kusama: Inventing the Singular (MIT Press, August 2015), Midori Yamamura employs Lisa Lowe\u2019s theory of cultural hybridity as she traces the influences on Yayoi Kusama\u2019s anti-conformist practice. Eschewing the common fixation on the mental health of the Japanese artist, Yamamura instead considers how life in post-World War II Japan, migration to the US, the 1960s downtown New York art scene, and women\u2019s liberation movement shaped Kusama\u2019s work and career.<\/p>\n

For more information visit: http:\/\/www.nyu-apastudies.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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