Q + Me: A Fierce and Questioning Asian America at DCTV
Felix
On March 14, the Museum of the Chinese in the Americas organized a panel of queer Asian American visual artists working mainly on video. The event, which took place at Downtown Community Television, featured artists Alan Calpe, Lynne Chan, and Stuart Gaffney. I was invited to moderate the discussion. The evening was introduced by curator Doreen Wang, who selected the presenters because of the ways in which their work speaks about the intersection of queerness and being Asian American. Approaches to this question varied widely. Gaffney’s videos contained autobiographical musings on his parents mixed race marriage and the lack of role models for queers of mixed descent, while Chan looked to subvert stereotypes of Asian masculinity by adopting a comic persona and engaging in physically demanding activities like driving in a demolition derby and training in Muay Thai kickboxing. Calpe’s film work used camp to critique the desire for gay assimilation by depicting a scene of couple domesticity that starts with the making of a souffle, and ends with its inevitable implosion.
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