Event Description: South and Southeast Asian diasporic artists and performers share decolonial, diasporic, and queer approaches to the arts. Includes a student-led conversation with featured performers.
Schedule:
- 6:00–6:15 PM: Opening welcome — Dr. Viola Lasmana
- 6:15–7:00 PM: Performance — RAGS (musical group supported by SEARU, Rutgers Collection of Musical Instruments)
- 7:00–7:15 PM: Visual art — SEARU performers (Colleen Tona, Tiffanie Pao, and others)
- 7:15–7:25 PM: Closing remarks
- 7:25–7:30 PM: Audience Q&A moderated by SEARU (Linh Ngo)
- 7:30 PM: Artist tabling and refreshments — Dita’s Market
Featured Performers:
Kareem Khubchandani is the author of Decolonize Drag and Ishtyle: Accenting Gay Indian Nightlife, as well as co-editor of Queer Nightlife, guest editor of “Critical Aunty Studies” and associate editor for GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies.
https://kareemkhubchandani.com
zavé martohardjono is a trans, queer, mixed race Indonesian-American choreographer, filmmaker + visual artist who uses dance and ritual as primary languages across anti-colonial projects. They teach at Cooper Union and The New School.
Sokunthary Svay is a Cambodian poet, essayist, librettist, and founding member of the Cambodian American Literary Arts Association (CALAA). A doctoral candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center and a Lecturer at CCNY in Harlem, she is the author of Apsara in New York and Put it on Record: A Memoir-Archive.
Co-sponsored by Global Asias and Department of American Studies
Supported by Rutgers University Libraries