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PLEASE POST: UPCOMING SCREENING IN SF (fwd)
A SCREENING OF SLANTED VISION
& OTHER RECENT VIDEOS BY MING-YUEN S. MA
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 8:00 PM
ARTISTS' TELEVISION ACCESS
992 VALENCIA STREET <email> 21 STREET
San Francisco
Los Angeles media artist Ming-Yuen S. Ma will present SLANTED VISION and
other recent video shorts, including a newly-completed collaboration
with playwright Han Ong, NOT XL.
$5/door. For more information call ATA (415) 824-3890
http://www.atasite.org
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SLANTED VISION (1995)
A Video by Ming-Yuen S. Ma
In collaboration with Pablo Bautista, Justin Chin, Vicente
Grolveo, Quentin Lee, Napoleon Lustre, Laura U. Marks, Nguyen Tan Hoang, Han
Ong, and Dean Sameshima.
Running time: 50 min.
Color/B&W, English, Betacam video, Stereo
Slanted Vision is an energetic experimental
video that explores the relation between vision and
desire with eroticized images of Asian men. Working in
collaboration with a diverse group of artists, writers,
performers and musicians, many of them queer and
Asian, Los Angeles-based media artist Ming-Yuen S. Ma
has created a promiscuous montage inspired by gay porn
videos, kung fu movies and TV cooking shows.
Introducing the video with a quote from Richard Fung's
ground-breaking essay Looking for My Penis: The Eroticized
Asian in Gay Video Porn, Ma links its three sections by
visual layering and fast-paced editing. An exploration
into pornographic and genre film images of Asian men
leads into a documentary on contemporary sexual
practices among queer Asians, and ends with a multiple
re-staging of the popular U.S. television cooking show,
Yan Can Cook, in which this 'family-viewing' program is
turned into a hilariously perverse safer sex
demonstration seasoned with some serious kung-fu
moves.
In these three sections, Asian males are shown sexually -
objectified, as subjects, and perverted. Also, recurring
elements concerning specularity - looking and being
looked at, pornographic representation, documentary
and fiction, identity politics, AIDS /HIV and safer sex
education surface throughout the tape in their various
guises, further linking the different sections. In this
video, Ma irreverently assesses the debate on
positive/negative images, media representation of
sexuality and pleasure, sexual practices in the age of
AIDS, and their impact on queer Asians. Slanted Vision
presents a wide-ranging yet ambivalent perspective on
sexuality that is at once humorous, sensual, radical and
erotic.
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