Performing Vulnerability : Risking Art and Life in the Burmese Diaspora.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hue, Emily L.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Politics in art.

Human rights advocacy--Political aspects.

Human rights advocacy.

Art, Burmese--Themes, motives--21st century.

Art, Burmese.

Performance art--Political aspects--New York (State)--New York.

Performance art.

Artists--Burma.

Artists.

Expatriate artists--New York (State)--New York.

Expatriate artists.

Refugees as artists--New York (State)--New York.

Refugees as artists.

Human rights in art.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (318 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2025.

Summary:

"Performing Vulnerability follows diasporic artists and activists from Burma and their supporters in New York while tracing how they unsettle juridical human rights discourse within supranational spaces of humanitarian benevolence and international arts"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The Humanitarian Industry : The Rise and Fall of Human Rights Heroine Aung San Suu Kyi

Diversity and Refuge in the Museum : The Guggenheim's No Country

Freedom of Expression, Asylum, and Elastic Vulnerability : The Art of Chaw Ei

Thein

Htein Lin : Unraveling the Dissident Body and Buddhist Transcendence.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-295-75362-5

OCLC:

1521319473