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November 18, 2023
Have you ever wondered if queerness can be used to describe the experience of being “othered,” even in one’s very own “motherland?” Join GYOPO’s next program, as we go through the lens of contemporary practices and the lived experiences of artists bending barriers of gender. Transnational Queering considers the nuances of queering, and poses the question of how, or if, queering can be used in non-gendered terms to define the experiences of individuals who embody the varying intersections between the LGBTQ+ communities, those heralding from the “global majority,” and peoples with varying immigration statuses. Artists 𝐊𝐢𝐚𝐦 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐨 𝐉𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐨, 𝐋𝐚𝐧 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐨, 𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐚 𝐋𝐢𝐧, and 𝐬𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐧 𝐞𝐮𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐠 𝐣𝐮𝐧𝐠 focusing on how each explores ideas of queering, followed by a discussion centered around the queering of home and belonging, moderated by 𝐀𝐧𝐧𝐚 𝐌. 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐚𝐝𝐚 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐢.
Kiam Marcelo Junio is a Chicago-based interdisciplinary artist working across media, from dance and performance to sculpture, installation, photography, and writing. Their research and art work center around queer identity, Philippine history and the Filipino diaspora, Western imperialism, and personal and collective healing through collaborative projects and individual self-work. Kiam served seven years in the US Navy as a Hospital Corpsman. Their work has been exhibited, screened, and performed throughout Chicago at Boyfriends, Defibrillator, Links Hall, the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Bijou Theater, and the Field Museum, as well as in New York City, NY; Riverside, CA; Mexico City, Mexico; Cadiz, Spain; and Montreal, Canada. They were born in the Philippines and have lived in the US, Japan, and Spain.
Inspired by a particular site, historical incident, or political issue, Lin + Lam (Lana Lin [she/they] and H. Lan Thao Lam [they/she/he]) have collaborated since 2001. Their films have been screened at the Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, Taiwan International Documentary Film Festival, San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival, Nepal America Film Festival, and European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Germany, among others. Lin + Lam’s artwork has been exhibited at international venues including the Museum of Modern Art, New Museum, The Kitchen, and the Queens Museum, New York; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; Arko Arts Center, Korean Arts Council Seoul, and the 2018 Busan Biennale. The Canada Council for the Arts, Princess Grace Foundation, Vera List Center for Art & Politics, KW Institute for Contemporary Art Production Series, and the India China Institute at The New School, NY have supported their work. They have both been fellows of the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, MacDowell Artist Residency, and Ssamzi Space, Seoul, Korea. Lam is Director of the MFA in Fine Arts at Parsons Fine Arts and Lin is Director of Documentary Studies at The New School, NY.
Born in 1974 in Incheon, South Korea, siren eun young jung currently lives and works in Seoul. She studied the visual arts and feminist theory at Ewha Womans [sic] University (BFA, MFA, and DFA) in South Korea and the University of Leeds (MA). She is interested in how the seething desires of anonymous individuals encounter events in the world and become resistance, history, and politics. She believes that, by ceaselessly reexamining feminist-queer methodology, artistic praxis that is simultaneously aesthetic and political is possible. Her representative works include the 'Dongducheon Project' (2007-2009) and the 'Yeoseong Gukgeuk Project' (2008-present), and she works across genres including art, film, and performance. She has grown mainly through major exhibitions in Asia such as 'Tradition (Un)Realized' (2014), 'Ghosts, Spies, Grandmothers: SeMA Biennale Mediacity Seoul' (2014), 'Discordant Harmony' (2015, 2016), Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (2015-16), Gwangju Biennale (2016), Taipei Biennial (2017), Shanghai Biennale (2018), Tokyo Performing Arts Market (TPAM)—Performing Arts Meeting in Yokohama (2014, 2018), Serendipity Art Festival (2018), Kyoto Experiments(2019), Biennale Jogja(2021). She has received the 2013 Hermes Foundation Art Award, 2015 Sindoh Art Prize, and 2018 Korea Artist Prize and participated in the exhibition in the Korean Pavilion at the 2019 Venice Biennale.
Anna M. Moncada Storti is a writer and teacher of feminist theory, queer of color critique, and Asian American Studies. An interdisciplinary scholar, Storti explores the aesthetic and affective relations between race, empire, violence, and pleasure, specializing in art and culture across the Asian diaspora. Born in Anaheim, CA, in a family of Filipina and Italian immigrants, she was educated at Cal Poly Pomona where she was a Ronald E. McNair Scholar. Entering college as a Civil Engineering major, she graduated with degrees in Gender, Ethnicity, and Multicultural Studies and Business Management. Prior to joining Duke, she was the Guarini Dean's Postdoctoral Fellow in Asian American Studies at Dartmouth College, and she holds a PhD in Women's Studies from the University of Maryland, College Park.