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WHY GAY-IENDLY TAIWAN IS A CREATIVE HAVEN FOR LGBTQ ART
It is more than jt an LGBTQ-themed mm exhibn— Patrick Sun has built an art llectn that foc on gay Asian art. In 2014, he found the Sunpri Foundatn to raise awarens and earn r... * asian gay art *
And 2017, jt months after Taiwan’s nstutnal urt paved the way for the marriage law by clarg same-sex marriage a legal right, the gay art scene was afford rare mastream attentn wh the exhibn “Spectrosynthis – Asian LGBTQ Issu and Art Now.
One of his most recent projects saw Su film unrealized scen om “The Glamoro Boys of Tang, ” a homoerotic fantasy movie featurg i, killgs and an exorcism, that was released whout parts of the origal screenplay, as Su believ they were emed appropriate nservative 1980s Taiwan. Wh Taiwan attemptg to tablish self as a mercial arts statn (the lnch of the Taipei Dangdai art fair 2019 signaled that the island may hope to challenge Hong Kong’s domatn of the Asian market), the island’s gay artists uld, turn, benef om the growg ternatnal profile. “The majory of curators and llectors are male, and, om my perspective, they are more terted gay male art, ” she said, addg: “We all notice that there are a lot of gay artists ( Taiwan), but if a curator asks, ‘Who’s a lbian artist?
Patrick Sun has shared wh LARRY’S LIST about the prec moment when he brought his father to LGBTQ-themed show at Mm of Contemporary Art (MOCA) Taipei, the work llaboratn by Keh Harg and Tseng Kwong Chi work that is hung above his sk, the advantag of llectg gay Asian art, as well as how art n help promotg equal rights for the LGBTQ muny Asia.
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None of the artists foc on LGBTQ work exclively so would not be right to tegorize them this way, but I n name 3 artists our llectn (not all of them gay): J FAN, SU Hui-Yu, and Jakkai SIRIBUTR who are gag more and more ternatnal attentn. ” Coover has watched ics evolve om Marvel's first openly gay character, Northstar (who me out an “X-Men” ic 2012), to a vast crease LGBTQ visibily and alternativ wh the medium, which she believ is “fluenced by young queer people across the spectm. In one of the few books that overview the tersectn of both topics, Art and Homosexualy, Reed (2011) exam a broad span of artworks and artists om around the world, sometim gog back lennia, to discs the changg nature of ias about homosexualy and s acceptance the var societi he rearch.
This rearch gap was addrsed by curator Lenzi her paper “How Queer Translat Southeast Asian Contemporary Art” (2015), a nuanced applitn of queer analysis to a number of artworks that often do not explicly reference homosexualy—if they refer to at all.
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Taylor (2009) is ut about histori that rce performance to an offshoot of ntemporary art, or that approximate performance and ’s background law glimmers through her reful analysis, ncurrg wh Aronson (1999) that homosexualy has been ls well tolerated Vietnam than elsewhere Southeast Asia. He sweeps through other historil sourc to track down acunts om travellers and missnari of the past, datg om the 1600s, that generally suggt that throughout the ag, unlike s neighbours, the land now known as Vietnam nmned homosexualy. For Newton (2012) and Rydstrøm (2006) sexual activy has been nsired a “social evil” (tá» nạn xã há»i) even Vietnam’s recent history, placg a stigma most heavily on women (Schuler et al., 2006) summary, the lerature suggts that legal and social nstcts had historilly obscured homosexualy Vietnam, to a gree that ed to be thought of as non-existent or a foreign behavur that did not occur among Vietname people.
Photographer Maika Elan (WPP, 2013) and wrer Bui Anh Tam (Tran Dh Thanh Lam, 2004) provi eloquent acunts of how negative media portrayals of gay people prompted them to vtigate the topic and velop creative works to bat ill-rmed stereotyp. Begng wh the premise that homosexualy “exists” Vietnam, seeg that now has a mentn the untry’s legal history, this article plac the nflictg subjectivi surroundg cultural norms, the legal amework, artistic novatn and media bias relatn to art productn. Focg on reprentatns of inty “around the practic and pleasur that the 20th century beme known as ‘homosexual’ ” (Ofield, 2005), this discsn tak a ntaed approach that knowgly leav out some well-known gay artists yet clus the work of straight-intified on.