#hybridity

[love4bug]

'Microcosmos (Determinismo)' by Remedios Varo

[acheliosadrastos]

A Post-colonial Analysis of Sinners: The Oppressed as the Oppressor, Hybridity and Appropriation

[wwwevvvy]

Finally Weightless

Self Portrait

2021

[grupaok]

Carolina Caycedo, Flag Series: Mexiamericana, 2007

[lolmythesis]

Writing and composing about my life shows that hybridity and diaspora are not as emancipatory as you might think.

City University of London, Music

Auto-ethnography and Composition as Epistemologies for Healing Double-consciousness: An Interrogation of Hybridity and Diaspora.

[blessedrestlessness]

In a press release for Torey Thornton’s show “Subdominium Edges Y Assumed Legalities”, Ivan Dal Cin writes: “There are mouths that water for writing as the strengthener to an artwork or show, the hardening component in the mixture, historicizing it, firming it.” He asks: “Is a body of work stronger when it’s fully explained and squeezed out?” And adds: “We have been taught that explanation, speaking, telling, writing equates to a presentation of knowledge and cultural wealth” (Dal Cin). This is certainly so, yet isn’t the inverse true also? There are those who seem less willing to read non-illustrated books, non-graphic novels, those who prefer film to reading because they have trouble picturing what they read, trouble mentally illuminating un-illuminated manuscripts. A general sense of mixture, of collage, has come to characterize our era; and we needn’t necessarily bemoan this trend in the direction of semi-reflexive hybridity. Perhaps, in fact, it should be celebrated. The social symbolism seems clear enough: an aversion, at the formal level, to “purity” and discourses (often racist/xenophobic) that surround it, representing a paradigmatic shift in a direction more ethical precisely because less preoccupied with cold (and epistemologically indefensible) “purity”.

[asianamsmakingmusic]

Orientalism is a western ways of seeing Asia, so I felt that we need a redefinition of our own because we often forget the context and use it. Especially, I wanted to escape the stereotypes that are applied to Asian women, that are treated ridiculously in the media. But I did not want to create a song that contains messages that only stays in one side. So I wanted to consider both Eastern and Western perspectives. Based on familiar genres of western music such as pop, hip-hop, and electronic, I tried to combine those elements with Asian instruments and Korean traditional music Pan-sori. I wanted to transformed them into unexpected music and characters. In addition, I didn’t want to approach simply by using Eastern codes, jokes as memes, or smirking. I wanted to clarify Orientalism which doesn’t fully explain the true Asian culture. Rather than merely using Asian images, sounds, and concepts, I wanted to express thoughts and philosophy in my own way.

Lim Kim, on Orientalism (statement on her new crowdfunding page)