The Worlds of Richard Fung: Queer Reclamations of the Asian Caribbean
Northeastern’s Global Asian Studies Program, Center for the Arts and Brown Arts Institute are pleased to present “The Worlds of Richard Fung: Queer Reclamations of the Asian Caribbean”. This is a two-part event, beginning Thursday, October 10th with “Artists in Conversation”, featuring artist Richard Fung, moderated by Denise Khor, with framing remarks by Kris Manjapra. Richard Fung’s single-channel and installation works will be on view at Gallery 360 from September 30 – October 19, 2024. Read more about Richard Fung here.
Join us for the inaugural event in the “Intimacies of Black Asia” series, a multi-year collaboration that explores the many dimensions in which Africana and Global Asian histories, cultures, and creativities overlap, intermingle, and entangle across Atlantic, Indian Ocean, and Pacific Ocean worlds.
Using a 20-year archive of video interviews, his latest film The Enigma of Harold Sonny Ladoo (2024) explores the mysterious death of Harold Sonny Ladoo, the first Trinidadian and the second Caribbean novelist published in Canada.
Kris Manjapra, Stearns Trustee Professor of History and Global Studies (CSSH) will give framing remarks, which will be followed by an artist conversation between Richard Fung and Denise Khor , Associate Professor of Asian American Studies and Visual Studies (CAMD/CSSH). Please join us for a reception with food after the discussion.
This is part one of a two-part series. To learn more about part two, click here.
Presented by Northeastern’s Global Asian Studies, the Center for the Arts, and the Brown Arts Institute (BAI) at Brown University. Organized by Kris Manjapra, Denise Khor, Juliana Barton, and Thea Quiray Tagle (Brown University). Co-sponsored by Northeastern’s Humanities Center, the Brown Arts Institute, the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, The Department of American Studies at Brown, and the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women at Brown University.