{"id":359,"date":"2012-10-17T15:52:47","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T22:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gqrg\/?p=359"},"modified":"2012-10-17T15:52:47","modified_gmt":"2012-10-17T22:52:47","slug":"latchkey-aesthetics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gqrg\/2012\/10\/17\/latchkey-aesthetics\/","title":{"rendered":"Latchkey Aesthetics"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Latchkey Aesthetics\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

a public lecture by<\/span>\u00a0Dr. Karen Tongson<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Thursday, October 25, from 4-6 pm<\/span><\/p>\n

RSVP:\u00a0http:\/\/tongson.eventbrite.com\/<\/a>
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Social Lounge at St. John’s College<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

***Jane Rule Endowment for Human Relationships will host a drop-in lunch on October 26 from 11-1, for interested graduate students to discuss their work with Dr. Tongson. If you are interested in participating in the lunch, please contact\u00a0chelseyhauge@gmail.com<\/a><\/span>
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Unsupervised, left alone and either fearful or bored, America\u2019s suburban spawn have been called latchkey kids since at least World War II (when the label was purportedly invented to describe kids transiently orphaned by work as well as war). As a scholar of suburban affect, race, sexuality and performance, my work has explored the uniquely trashy, yet delectable confection of what I\u2019ve elsewhere called a \u201clatchkey aesthetics\u201d\u2014the effort at converting cultures of convenience and prefabricated,\u00a0pr\u00eat-a-manger<\/em>\u00a0materials into art and performance. In this talk, I will elaborate upon how \u201clatchkey aesthetics\u201d repurposes found pop cultural materials (often from the 1970s-1990s). In performance pieces that feature the latchkey look, popular materials become easily accessible and \u201cre-heatable\u201d through postmillennial digital technologies\u2014a practice that befits individual performers and small collaborations operating on shoestring budgets, and limited schedules for making art (not unlike the absent parents who helped cultivate the aesthetic to begin with).<\/wbr><\/div>\n
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Of particular focus will be an ongoing project by Bobby Abate (aka \u201cBobby Service\u201d) and Lynne Chan (aka \u201cBlack Waterfall.\u201d) called\u00a0New Sound Karaoke<\/em>\u00a0(http:\/\/newsoundkaraoke.com<\/wbr><\/a>).\u00a0NSK<\/em>\u00a0combines live performance, video, internet broadcasting and participatory club nights in various karaoke venues throughout New York, channeling Abate\u2019s and Chan\u2019s earnest investments in karaoke as an expressive and deeply intimate social pastime. Through Chan and Abate\u2019s own vocal performances that mash-up, reheat, and reconstitute pop songbooks from multiple decades, as well as their stylized visual accompaniments, New Sound Karaoke becomes a performative exploration of race, sexuality, reproductivity and the thin line between homonormativity and hipster heterosexuality. By discussing not only what, but\u00a0how<\/em>\u00a0Chan and Abate repurpose analog fantasies, we might be better able to understand the contemporary horizons of post-digital performance<\/wbr><\/div>\n
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\nDr. Karen Tongson is an Associate Professor at USC\u00a0 in English and Gender Studies. Dr. Tongson’s work on popular culture, queer studies, performance, music and literature has appeared in such journals as Social Text, GLQ, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Novel: A Forum on Fiction, and The International Journal of Communication, as well as in the anthologies Queering the Popular Pitch (Routledge), and The Blackwell Companion to LGBTQ Studies (eds. Haggerty and McGarry). Her first book, RELOCATIONS: Queer Suburban Imaginaries, was published August 1, 2011, as part of the New York University Press Sexual Cultures Series. Dr. Tongson is also a co-founder of the culture industry webzine OH! INDUSTRY (2007-2010).<\/div>\n
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\nThis event is sponsored by Jane Rule Endowment for the Study of Human Relationships, Critical Studies in Gender, Sexuality, Race and Social Justice, and the Global Queer Research Group.<\/div>\n
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