Art and Culture
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Asian American Creative Music in the 1990s
This is a repost of an article on In Motion Magazine, under an exchange agreement
by Bruce Takeo Akizuki
I was one the principal photographers during the 1990s volunteering for Asian Improv aRts and photo documenting the Asian American creative music scene in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Date of first Azine posting:11/13/2009 -
Viewing The Rebel: Butt-kicking Martial Arts as Anti-Colonial History
by Mike Liu
The Rebel is a watershed 2007 Vietnamese film that, despite some weaknesses as a film, is important to see on different levels. Despite its production by Viet Kieu i.e. overseas Vietnamese, it became the highest grossing film in Vietnam history. It has also received strong support among the Vietnamese American community.
Date of first Azine posting:09/28/2009 -
Gran Dilemma: A Necessary Step or Better-off Never Made?
By Sophia Kim
Date of first Azine posting:02/21/2009 -
Anti-Communist Protesters Shut Down Vietnamese American Exhibit on Freedom of Expression
The Vietnamese Arts and Letters Association (VAALA) pulled a Santa Ana, California exhibit about freedom of expression in the face of significant community protests. After a week, the city ordered the exhibit F.O.B. II closed.
Protestors focused on one work in F.O.B. II, a photograph of a young Vietnamese woman in Vietnam wearing a T-shirt with the symbol and colors of the Vietnamese flag sitting next to a bust of Ho Chi Minh.
Date of first Azine posting:02/05/2009 -
Book Interview: The Heart's Traffic
Ching-in Chen, a queer, Asian-American woman, recently published a novel-in-poems, a fictional narrative that loosely connects a series of poems. The central character is Xiaomei, a young women who becomes an organizer. While the central theme is self-discovery, we thought activists would find this work of interest. We have selected questions and author's responses to an interview. The book is available from Arktoi Books through the Chicago Distribution Center.
Date of first Azine posting:02/02/2009 -
Watching Vincent Who? - Vincent Chin's Legacy
Mike Liu
The film Vincent Who? resurrects the meaning of the brutal death of Vincent Chin in Detroit and the ensuing campaign. Inspired by the 25th anniversary of Vincent Chin's killing, Curtis Chin, himself a Detroit native, begins with the premise that the meaning has been forgotten in the current generation of young Asian Americans.
Date of first Azine posting:11/06/2008 -
Poem: Bailout
Todd Lee
Ping Wong did not want to get up this morning.
Date of first Azine posting:10/07/2008 -
Bailout
Todd Lee
Ping Wong did not want to get up this morning.
But her feet were so sore
last night, she did not go out.
So here she is, as she is every Monday night or Tuesday morning,
picking up bottles, sorting through cans, trying
to make a living. Even though
her back hurts from the bending, she has
done harder work, she has done whatever it took
to feed her family, and then
to feed herself.
She likes the
night picking better, the people don’t yell
so much when she opens the bags.Date of first Azine posting:10/07/2008 -
Song for the Immigrants
Inspired by the National Day of Action, April 10, 2006
by Todd Lee
Date of first Azine posting:04/02/2008 -
"Laundry Day:" Talking with Vi Tri Quach, Visual Artist/Activist
Vi Tri Quach was born in Vietnam.
Date of first Azine posting:11/23/2007
