Speaker:
Feng-Mei Heberer, Assistant Professor in Cinema Studies, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University
Moderator:
Alvin K. Wong, Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, HKU
Date: Thursday, November 30, 2023
Time: 9:00 am Hong Kong Time (8:00 pm/Nov 29, New York)
Venue: On Zoom
Drawing on a multilingual archive of contemporary queer and feminist videos by Asian diasporans in North America, Europe, and East Asia, Asians on Demand: Mediating Race in Video Art and Activism (University of Minnesota Press, 2023) grapples with the pressing question of how media representation can advance racial justice in the wake of today’s unprecedented rise of onscreen diversity. Through an engagement with grassroots activist documentaries and experimental videos by migrants, undocumented workers, and high-profile media artists, the book showcases video productions that sabotage popular and state demands for Asian visibility to fulfill ostensibly progressive projects of multicultural and postracial inclusion.
Feng-Mei Heberer is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Cinema Studies at NYU. Her research interests lie at the junctures of labor, transnational migration, and Asian diaspora, and her work draws heavily on the insights of ethnic studies, queer studies, feminist studies, and critical area studies. In addition, she researches and works in film curation and community arts and culture organizing.
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