Program and Symposium Schedule available here.
"Minor Aesthetics: Queer, Asian, Diasporic" is a Faculty Working Group sponsored by the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University, and co-convened by Dr. Anna Storti, Assistant Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies and Dr. Yun Emily Wang, Assistant Professor of Music.
The working group creates a space of provocation. We begin with the premise that artistic interventions via the sonic, visual, and tactile hold potential for deeper attention to the unseen, inaudible, disavowed registers of racialized queer life. Throughout 2022, we seek to forge an intellectual hub for invited artists and scholars from the humanities and interpretive social sciences working at the nexus between aesthetic inquiry, queer studies, and the Asian diaspora. We gather in multiple venues— seminars, performances, a roundtable, an online exhibition—to experiment with how the aesthetic helps us to sense and reconfigure the dialectical tensions joining minoritarian life to historical and ontological violence.
More details about the working group:
https://fhi.duke.edu/programs/minor-aestheticsHeader image: Chanel Matsunami Govreau, They Watch You Thrive in Sunset (2021). Soft sculpture with screen printing, vintage kimono and synthetic hair.
