An essay on the visual culture of the Pink Dot movement in Singapore, focusing on its pink gradie... more An essay on the visual culture of the Pink Dot movement in Singapore, focusing on its pink gradient. Over the past ten years, the Pink Dot—as an event and monochrome visual iconography—has produced a changing sense of imagined community. The Pink Dot has been widely analyzed over the past decade through various legal, activist, and linguistic perspectives. To these approaches, I offer a reading of the Pink Dot’s photographic and visual culture. In doing so, this essay maps the trajectory of its social gradient on the ground to pictures taken from above, following the Dot across physical, aerial, and digital spheres to examine the effect of its monochrome, both on and between bodies, as it moves queerly upon the ground of the state.
Chitra Ganesh: Queer Power: A Time Traveling Coloring Book, 2021
Commissioned short essay on iconicity in Chitra Ganesh's recent art: a 2021 coloring book and sit... more Commissioned short essay on iconicity in Chitra Ganesh's recent art: a 2021 coloring book and site-specific commissioned installation at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art.
Jeannine Tang, "Intimate Iconicity," Queer Power! A Time Travelling Coloring Book (New York: Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, 2021): 13-15
Essay on Tan Guo Liang's new work in the 2021 exhibitions Soft Turnings, arguing that the work is... more Essay on Tan Guo Liang's new work in the 2021 exhibitions Soft Turnings, arguing that the work is neither located in the space of painting nor the realm of cinema, but in the dynamic between both.
This essay examines the artist project by Chitra Ganesh and Mariam Ghani, Index of the Disappeare... more This essay examines the artist project by Chitra Ganesh and Mariam Ghani, Index of the Disappeared (2004-present), focusing on how the project entwines studio, research, and long-term site-responsive methodologies. It argues that the project’s use of portraiture and alignment with radical archival practice offers methods for counteracting the antisociality of profiling, its sundering of kin and practices of capture. By way of the term antiprofile, the essay argues that Index of the Disappeared nourishes nourish life and sociality against racialized control, by producing new relationships between persons, their portraits, and profiles amidst the depersonalizing cultures of spectacle and security that have long targeted black and brown life before and after 9/11.
Essay on Tishan Hsu's 1980s work, involving postmodernist debates, computational and theoretical ... more Essay on Tishan Hsu's 1980s work, involving postmodernist debates, computational and theoretical contexts and social milieux in New York City and Cologne,. Published in the catalogue for the first museum survey of Hsu's work.
Response to questions on the subject of decolonizing art history, posed by editors Catherine Gran... more Response to questions on the subject of decolonizing art history, posed by editors Catherine Grant and Dorothy Price for a special issue of the journal Art History.
Focus on Julie Tolentino's work in the exhibition Soft and Wet at EFA Project Space, curated by S... more Focus on Julie Tolentino's work in the exhibition Soft and Wet at EFA Project Space, curated by Sadia Shirazi
The Conditions of Being Art: Pat Hearn Gallery and American Fine Arts, Co. (1983-2004), 2018
An essay surveying the operations of Colin de Land's gallery American Fine Arts, Co, between the ... more An essay surveying the operations of Colin de Land's gallery American Fine Arts, Co, between the 1980s - 2004s, with attention to the inaugural exhibitions of the gallery's various spaces in downtown NYC. Published in the book accompanying the exhibition The Conditions of Being Art: Pat Hearn Gallery and American Fine Arts, Co. (1983-2004) at the Hessel Museum, CCS Bard. eds. Ann Butler, Lia Gangitano, Jeannine Tang; published by CCS Bard and Dancing Foxes Press
Career survey essay focusing on work in video and performance, for a monograph on Sharon Hayes by... more Career survey essay focusing on work in video and performance, for a monograph on Sharon Hayes by Phaidon
in Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility (New Museum and MIT Press,... more in Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility (New Museum and MIT Press, 2018)
Jeannine Tang, "Exhibition Walkthrough," in Martin Beck: rumors and murmurs (Vienna, AU: Museum M... more Jeannine Tang, "Exhibition Walkthrough," in Martin Beck: rumors and murmurs (Vienna, AU: Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, 2017): 59-82
On the question of the exemplary exhibition in curatorial history, its research and study, drawin... more On the question of the exemplary exhibition in curatorial history, its research and study, drawing upon the construction of histories of exhibition and histories of curating classes at CCS Bard over the years.
Lecture delivered at The Feminist Art Project, 2013 College Art Association panel, "Queering the ... more Lecture delivered at The Feminist Art Project, 2013 College Art Association panel, "Queering the Museum" organized by Tirza Latimer. Sections of this subsequently republished in "Contemporary Art and Critical Transgender Infrastructures" Trap Door (MIT Press and New Museum, 2017) eds. J. Burton, E. Stanley, Tourmaline.
An essay on the visual culture of the Pink Dot movement in Singapore, focusing on its pink gradie... more An essay on the visual culture of the Pink Dot movement in Singapore, focusing on its pink gradient. Over the past ten years, the Pink Dot—as an event and monochrome visual iconography—has produced a changing sense of imagined community. The Pink Dot has been widely analyzed over the past decade through various legal, activist, and linguistic perspectives. To these approaches, I offer a reading of the Pink Dot’s photographic and visual culture. In doing so, this essay maps the trajectory of its social gradient on the ground to pictures taken from above, following the Dot across physical, aerial, and digital spheres to examine the effect of its monochrome, both on and between bodies, as it moves queerly upon the ground of the state.
Chitra Ganesh: Queer Power: A Time Traveling Coloring Book, 2021
Commissioned short essay on iconicity in Chitra Ganesh's recent art: a 2021 coloring book and sit... more Commissioned short essay on iconicity in Chitra Ganesh's recent art: a 2021 coloring book and site-specific commissioned installation at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art.
Jeannine Tang, "Intimate Iconicity," Queer Power! A Time Travelling Coloring Book (New York: Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, 2021): 13-15
Essay on Tan Guo Liang's new work in the 2021 exhibitions Soft Turnings, arguing that the work is... more Essay on Tan Guo Liang's new work in the 2021 exhibitions Soft Turnings, arguing that the work is neither located in the space of painting nor the realm of cinema, but in the dynamic between both.
This essay examines the artist project by Chitra Ganesh and Mariam Ghani, Index of the Disappeare... more This essay examines the artist project by Chitra Ganesh and Mariam Ghani, Index of the Disappeared (2004-present), focusing on how the project entwines studio, research, and long-term site-responsive methodologies. It argues that the project’s use of portraiture and alignment with radical archival practice offers methods for counteracting the antisociality of profiling, its sundering of kin and practices of capture. By way of the term antiprofile, the essay argues that Index of the Disappeared nourishes nourish life and sociality against racialized control, by producing new relationships between persons, their portraits, and profiles amidst the depersonalizing cultures of spectacle and security that have long targeted black and brown life before and after 9/11.
Essay on Tishan Hsu's 1980s work, involving postmodernist debates, computational and theoretical ... more Essay on Tishan Hsu's 1980s work, involving postmodernist debates, computational and theoretical contexts and social milieux in New York City and Cologne,. Published in the catalogue for the first museum survey of Hsu's work.
Response to questions on the subject of decolonizing art history, posed by editors Catherine Gran... more Response to questions on the subject of decolonizing art history, posed by editors Catherine Grant and Dorothy Price for a special issue of the journal Art History.
Focus on Julie Tolentino's work in the exhibition Soft and Wet at EFA Project Space, curated by S... more Focus on Julie Tolentino's work in the exhibition Soft and Wet at EFA Project Space, curated by Sadia Shirazi
The Conditions of Being Art: Pat Hearn Gallery and American Fine Arts, Co. (1983-2004), 2018
An essay surveying the operations of Colin de Land's gallery American Fine Arts, Co, between the ... more An essay surveying the operations of Colin de Land's gallery American Fine Arts, Co, between the 1980s - 2004s, with attention to the inaugural exhibitions of the gallery's various spaces in downtown NYC. Published in the book accompanying the exhibition The Conditions of Being Art: Pat Hearn Gallery and American Fine Arts, Co. (1983-2004) at the Hessel Museum, CCS Bard. eds. Ann Butler, Lia Gangitano, Jeannine Tang; published by CCS Bard and Dancing Foxes Press
Career survey essay focusing on work in video and performance, for a monograph on Sharon Hayes by... more Career survey essay focusing on work in video and performance, for a monograph on Sharon Hayes by Phaidon
in Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility (New Museum and MIT Press,... more in Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility (New Museum and MIT Press, 2018)
Jeannine Tang, "Exhibition Walkthrough," in Martin Beck: rumors and murmurs (Vienna, AU: Museum M... more Jeannine Tang, "Exhibition Walkthrough," in Martin Beck: rumors and murmurs (Vienna, AU: Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, 2017): 59-82
On the question of the exemplary exhibition in curatorial history, its research and study, drawin... more On the question of the exemplary exhibition in curatorial history, its research and study, drawing upon the construction of histories of exhibition and histories of curating classes at CCS Bard over the years.
Lecture delivered at The Feminist Art Project, 2013 College Art Association panel, "Queering the ... more Lecture delivered at The Feminist Art Project, 2013 College Art Association panel, "Queering the Museum" organized by Tirza Latimer. Sections of this subsequently republished in "Contemporary Art and Critical Transgender Infrastructures" Trap Door (MIT Press and New Museum, 2017) eds. J. Burton, E. Stanley, Tourmaline.
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For the 2022 Hamburg Photography Triennial (Hamburg, Germany: 2022), published in the digital journal, Allegories of the Visible. Text online at URL: https://www.phototriennale.de/de/allegories-of-the-visible/contributors/jeannine-tang/
Jeannine Tang, "Intimate Iconicity," Queer Power! A Time Travelling Coloring Book (New York: Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, 2021): 13-15
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https://www.leslielohman.org/exhibitions/chitra-ganesh-a-city-will-share-her-secrets-if-you-know-how-to-ask
Also available at: https://soft-turnings.com/
Recording (with slides) available at https://vimeo.com/61801049
For the 2022 Hamburg Photography Triennial (Hamburg, Germany: 2022), published in the digital journal, Allegories of the Visible. Text online at URL: https://www.phototriennale.de/de/allegories-of-the-visible/contributors/jeannine-tang/
Jeannine Tang, "Intimate Iconicity," Queer Power! A Time Travelling Coloring Book (New York: Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, 2021): 13-15
https://leslie-lohman-museum.square.site/product/queer-power-a-time-travelling-coloring-book/97?cs=true&cst=custom
https://www.leslielohman.org/exhibitions/chitra-ganesh-a-city-will-share-her-secrets-if-you-know-how-to-ask
Also available at: https://soft-turnings.com/
Recording (with slides) available at https://vimeo.com/61801049