REFERENCE NOTES
READING MATERIALS (on-going)
1) Asian American Political Alliance
2) The Yellow House, Chiwan Choi, CCM/ Coping Mechanism, 2017
3) Our Land Was A Forest/ An Ainu Memoir, Kayano Shigeru, Westview Press, 1980
4) Dictee, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, University of California Press, 2001
6) Disability Visibility, Alice Wong , Vintage Books (Penguin Random House LLC), 2020
8) In Praise of Shadows, Jun’ichiro Tanizakif_Shadows, Leete’s Island books, 1933
9) The Nuclear Culture Source Book, Edited by Eli Carpenter, black dog publishing, 2016
13) The Psychophysical Ear, Alexandra Hui, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013
14) The Refugees, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Grove Press, 2017
15) after the quake, Haruki Murakami, Vintage Books (Random House), 2002
16) Post War Shadows, Ishiuchi Miyako, J. Paul Getty Museum, 2015
17) Gidra, 1969 through 1974
18) Godzilla, 1990 through 2001
19) Soul Mining, exhibition, Vincent Price Museum, Los Angeles CA, 2018
20) Asian Canadians
21) Asian Diaspora in Latin America
22) Alaska Cities
23) Transpacific Borderlands: Japanese Brazilian Artists
24) All About Love: New Visions by bell hooks
25) Third World Liberation Front
26) Asian Brazilians
27) Tilsa Tsuchiya
29) Man Yu
30) Suwon Lee
31) Set The Night On Fire L.A. In The Sixties/ Mike Davis & Jon Weiner: Chapter 35. Gidra: Asian American Radicalism (1969-74)
32) The Society of Spectacle/ Guy Debord/ Situationist International
34) Global Groove/ Nam June Paik
35) 5 Times Nam June Paik Predicted the Future
36) Curating Radical Futures Podcast/ Adriel Luis
37) Curating Radical Futures - Live Colloquium
38) A Culture Lab on Imagined Futures/ Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center
40) Somewhere Between Documentary
41) TRIKONE
42) Southeast Asian Archive/ University of California, Irvine
ADDITONAL CONCEPTS:
FACT:
There are currently more than four million Asian Latin Americans, nearly 1% of Latin America's population. Chinese, Japanese and the Lebanese are the largest Asian ancestries; other major ethnic groups include Indians, Koreans and Filipinos.
Almost half of the immigrant population in Canada was born in Asia. In 2016, 48.1% of all immigrants were born in Asia (including the Middle East). Asia has remained the top source continent for immigrants in recent years. From 2017 to 2019, 63.5% of newcomers to Canada were born in Asia (including the Middle East)
EXCERPT:
i went outside yesterday / and was disappointed / it looked like how i remembered it / but with more people in line / at the rite aid. otherwise the same: / people not wanting to die / but very willing to kill // it was easy to detach from it all / this morning when i woke up and read the news / something about white men and murders / it is easy to detach when the dead / scream like me, made of familiar skin // i will feel this too later while / standing in the kitchen with a glass of water / and consider my mother who brought us here / on father’s stubborn whims // what am i to be today — / angry / sad / loud / somewhere between bleeding because i’m alive / and bleeding because you have taken my life // the noise is unbearable here and now / maybe it’s still just in my head / going through my crazies, as mom used to say / whenever i scared her by sleeping / too much or too little // i am tired and i want to sleep / for a long long time // i am tired and i have been too afraid to sleep / for longer than that.
NOTES:
Here are some notes I’ve been jotting down along the development of this website:
Latch key childhood
Of working immigrant parents
Computing Service
Computing goods
Computing labor
These imports from home now sold
Culture transformed into tchotchke
Language no longer mutual
Popular culture, of here
Popular culture of there
For my brother and I, the screen our plaza
The state teaches us contradiction and false gods
A segregated programming
In the circuits between memory, the daily, escape and dreams
Each day a building block towards a future, like millions of linked clocks, the ticking a white noise that lulls us to sleep
place not here
place not there
ocean between
time between
an ethnic monolith
false , an illusion
Someone else's benefit
When the screen turned into books, articles and teachers
the microscope of knowledge
tendencies in check
Let’s begin to counter the “divide and conquer” policies
the pros and cons of this continent
I awake here but wheres is freedom?
Where is our quantum synapses?
Mother
Motherland
Mothership
The keys are on the kitchen table
The tank is full
Psycho Geography (Situationist International)/ Post Covid-19 Pandemic =
Zoom/virtual norm, pandemic capitalist economy. Revisit and expand the notion of Psycho Geography
(YoutTube-based culture; erasure of regionalism, redefining “boundaries” as dictated by nations; algorithmic demarcations; advance derive, geography > environments > communities/neighborhoods > rural culture)
Indicators: loss of regional dialects; increase of temporal economy-based culture; gentrification > appropriation; loss of middle class; increase of military culture and strategies; increase of global migration