Center for Art Research

University of Oregon

IN PROCESS: Knowledge is a Shifting Form: Forms in Japan and Richard Serra’s “Verblist”

In 2020, I received the opportunity to be the inaugural Writer-in-Residence, Center for Art Research, University of Oregon. Unfortunately, the pandemic coupled with a need to restructure the MA in Critical Craft Studies, Warren Wilson College that I direct delayed work on this project.

The paper is in process and explores appropriation, Orientalism, action and contemporary art and craft, Japanese design, the impact of Asian Americans on US culture and contemporary thinking, and poses a question for further study: what does it mean that contemporary conceptual art in the US is based on craft, Asian, and Asian American ideas?