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...
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WHY GAY-IENDLY TAIWAN IS A CREATIVE HAVEN FOR LGBTQ ART
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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.
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. 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.
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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?
” 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. Together, the pair found the Llie-Lohman Mm of Gay and Lbian Art—the first stutn of s kd—which is down the block, on Wooster, unassumg Llie happened to poke his head out to the hallway to terme the e of the ck; before he uld shut the door, a group om the art magaze I worked for had charged their way through.
” Still, was durg this , 1987, that Llie and Lohman created their nonprof foundatn, which was accreded as a mm after the peak of the AIDS crisis, Mayor Rudy Giuliani—“a great, honorable Catholic, ” Llie uldn’t help but jibe—“fally managed to kill public gay life New York.
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An Indian pater’s pictn of life before and after gay sex was are some of the imag on display at an Asian ntemporary art show that opens the Thai pal Bangkok on Saturday, seekg to fight LGBT+ discrimatn a regn where same-sex behavr is still crimalized many exhibn at the Bangkok Art and Culture Center (BACC), which ns until March 1, featur the works of nearly 60 Asian artists, and is the send such exhibn after a show Taipei two years is aimed at engagg wh people who may have differg views on LGBT+ people and art, said Patrick Sun, founr of Hong Kong-based Sunpri Foundatn, whose llectn is the foundatn of the show. “This is why is a public gallery, bee we want the general public to e and see the art, thk about , talk about , and perhaps change their mds, ” he said he picked Taipei and Bangkok as venu bee of their more liberal attus toward homosexualy. Elsewhere the regn, India crimalized homosexualy last year, but nservative valu and ep-rooted bias have hamstng progrs on gay rights untri cludg Myanmar, Indonia, Sgapore, Malaysia and LGBT+ artists Asian untri where anti-gay sentiment still exists, n be hard to create their work eely, said Chatvichai Promadhattavedi, a former director of BACC, who curated the show.
It is about sufferg, joy, relatnships, human rights - ’s a reflectn of life, yet a life that has faced terrible tragedi and enormo challeng, ” he show clus photographs by Ren Hang, a gay Che artist who did a seri of timate portras of his iends before takg his own life 2017 at the age of artist Sunil Gupta, who is HIV-posive, Greek myths and pre-Raphaele tradn to portray same-sex upl. He chose the lors for the flag for the popular “Bi-Angl” symbol of triangl and bed them to a flag that ed 40% pk (to reprent homosexualy), 20% purple (to reprent a batn of homosexualy and heterosexualy), and 40% blue (to reprent heterosexualy). 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.