Godzilla
Asian American Arts Network 1990–2001
ed. by Howie Chen

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Editor(s)

Howie Chen

Publication, year

Brooklyn : Primary Information, 2021

Scope

448 Pages, illustrated, 30 cm.

ISBN

9781736534625

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The trailblazing Asian artist collective known as Godzilla: Asian American Art Network was formed in 1990 to support the production of critical discourse around Asian American art and increase the visibility of Asian American artists, curators, and writers, who were negotiating a historically exclusionary society and art world. Founded by Ken Chu, Bing Lee, and Margo Machida, Godzilla produced exhibitions, publications, and community collaborations that sought to stimulate social change through art and advocacy, confronting institutional racism, Western imperialism, anti-Asian violence, the AIDS crisis, and representations of Asian sexuality and gender, among other urgent issues. For more than a decade, having grown from a local organization into a nationwide network, created an important social space for diasporic Asian artists and art professionals. This publication offers a comprehensive anthology of writings, art projects, publications, correspondence, organizational documents, and other archival ephemera from this collective.

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Person as subject

Ken Chu, Bing Lee, Margo Machida, Tomie Arai, Karin Higa, Byron Kim, Paul Pfeiffer, Eugenie Tsai, Alice Yang, Lynne Yamamoto, Diyan Achjadi, Tomie Arai, Todd Ayoung, Monica Chau, Debi-Ray Chaudhuri, China Blue, Allan deSouza, Skowmon Hastanan, Arlan Huang, Michi Itami, Jenni Kim, Franky Kong, Jeanette Louie, Yong Soon Min, Helen Oji, Sanda Zan Oo, Athena Robles, Carol Sun, Eugenie Tsai, Lynne Yamamoto, Rubina Ye, Charles Yue, ...[et al.]

Geographical location

Asia

Location

Cabinet 29 - 2: Expanded Space ; Global Art ; diverse locaties