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Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas (special issue)

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Posted by: Brill
Deadline: Mon, July 1st, 2024

Portrait of the Contemporary Artist: Process, Identity, and Social Construction in the Asian Diaspora

Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas (special issue)

The genre of self-portraiture can be practiced and interpreted in a myriad of ways. From the more traditional format of a figural painting of the artist to installations presenting indexical marks of an artist’s experiences, contemporary diaspora artists use self-portraiture to process different aspects of their diasporic experience. Tibetan artist Gonkar Gyatso created several sketches of himself in his Daily Doodle series (2018-present). For decades, Gyatso’s work in exile grappled with buddha images and pop-culture references, but few self-portraits. The more recent presence of these intimate images seemingly marks a shift to interior spaces and self-reflection. The installations of contemporary Tibetan artist Sonam Dolma Brauen that address the passing of her parents--My Father’s Death and Sehnsucht--activate materials as a means to not only collapse time but to include stories of her community that seem to belie the confines of language. As a record of her family’s past and her own life, the installations present the rarely-acknowledged tactile, object-based experience of displaced people forced to choose what can be taken and what must be left behind. This special issue of Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas, scheduled to be published in Spring 2025, asks the following questions: in what ways do Asian diaspora artists grapple with issues of process, identity, or social construction through self-portraiture? How does technology and social media factor into these images?  What can we gain by examining and re-examining self-portraiture through the lens of the diaspora experience? We welcome papers which examine conventional notions of self-portraiture as well as those that expand the boundaries of what might be considered a self-portrait.

We welcome submissions for consideration in the format of scholarly articles, artist pages or curated artist pages, or artist statements. For more information on author guidelines, see: https://brill.com/view/journals/adva/adva-overview.xml?language=en&contents=artsub 

Please submit a draft by (June 1). We will inform you within 1-2 weeks of our tentative issue contributors.

Full submissions are expected by (July 1).  Please submit to the guest editors. All submissions should be addressed to Sarah Magnatta (sarahmagnatta@gmail.com) and Yi Yi Mon (Rosaline) Kyo (yiyimon.kyo@gmail.com). Please also direct any questions to these email addresses. 

Posted on Wed, April 10th, 2024
Expires on Mon, July 1st, 2024

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