Asian Provocation
By Ayoto Ataraxia
Asian ProvocationJan 26, 2021
9. Observations with Akhir Ali
Eye-kai-year.
Akhir Ali is a published author and contributor in Autostraddle, Meeting of Minds UK, iO Literary, and Women Writing Berlin Lab. She writes fiction, poetry, personal essays, and queer erotica. Her work centers contradiction, disembodiment, natural environment, and intimacy.
You can also find her on Instagram @khikaichy
This podcast is hosted and produced by myself, Ayoto Ataraxia. Art Direction by Adam Ridgeway, web coding by Rafa Cobiella, music by Jesus Lastra.
This is a listener supported podcast, and if you’d like to help grow this channel, you can subscribe at Patreon
You can follow the podcast also on Instagram
8. How to heal hate and victimhood with Fan Popo
范坡坡 (Fan Popo) is a documentary filmmaker, film critic, and LGBT activist from China. Fan's documentaries have focused on performance-based activism (New Beijing, New Marriage, and The VaChina Monologues) and coming out as LGBT in the Chinese filial context (Chinese Closet and Papa Rainbow).
He is known for the documentary Mama Rainbow and his well-publicized legal case against the Chinese state media regulator over censorship of it.
Happy Together - one hundred gay film Quanji Lu
Hey, Siro — Popo Fan's porn on XConfessions
Sex and City (in Chinese) — Popo's writing on sexuality
The Guardian: Film-maker sues Chinese censors over 'ban' on gay-themed movie
This podcast is hosted and produced by myself, Ayoto Ataraxia. Art Direction by Adam Ridgeway, web coding by Rafa Cobiella, music by Jesus Lastra.
This is a listener supported podcast, and if you’d like to help grow this channel, you can subscribe at Patreon
You can follow the podcast also on Instagram
7. What is an All-American Man? Andrew Kung
Andrew Kung is a photographer based in Brooklyn, with roots in San Francisco. His works is aiming to normalize Asian American beauty, belonging and individuality.
In his first fashion, narrative photo book, "The All-American", he aims to redefine what It meant to be masculine and American in the context of the desexualized Asian American man.
Here you can explore Andrew Kung's work:
http://www.apkung.com
This podcast is hosted and produced by myself, Ayoto Ataraxia. Art Direction by Adam Ridgeway, web coding by Rafa Cobiella, music by Jesus Lastra.
This is a listener supported podcast, and if you’d like to help grow this channel, you can join at www.patreon.com/asianprovocation
You can follow the podcast also on Instagram
6. Anna Natt and the Masculinity Project
Anna Natt is a dance and performance visual artist. Her work has been showing internationally in theaters as well as galleries and alternative spaces. She was trained in traditional flamenco dance in Seville, Spain from 2000-2005 before moving to Berlin, where she is curerntly based.
She is currently working on a masculinity project, and we’ve been having on going discussions around this topic, and this is one of the first recorded conversations. We discuss masculinity issues, Johnny Depp, bull fighting, racism, gender issues and the taboo.
You can find out more about Anna's work here
www.annanatt.com
This podcast is hosted and produced by myself, Ayoto Ataraxia. Art Direction by Adam Ridgeway, web coding by Rafa Cobiella, music by Jesus Lastra.
This is a listener supported podcast, and if you’d like to help grow this channel, you can join at www.patreon.com/asianprovocation
5. Part 2. Coming out with Johann Huang
This is Part 2 of the ocnversation with Johann Huang. To underestand the continuity, you'll need to head back to the last episode.
I’m very excited to share with you this conversation, as we get personal and into the backstories of growing up in Australia as a gay asian man. The stories and experiences of Asian Diaspora, which I see is not just an issue limited to one group of people, but a human experience as globalization continues.
We dig into topics on shame and internalized racism, homosexuality in asian culture, the influences and living with Christianity and Buddhism from childhood, and how we relate to asian masculinity.
I am excited to start Asian Provocation's Patreon page. You can now support this podcast at
http://www.patreon.com/asianprovocation
5. Part 1 Coming out with Johann Huang
I’m very excited to share with you this conversation, as we get personal and into the backstories of growing up in Australia as a gay asian man. The stories and experiences of Asian Diaspora, which I see is not just an issue limited to one group of people, but a human experience as globalization continues.
We dig into topics on shame and internalized racism, homosexuality in asian culture, the influences and living with Christianity and Buddhism from childhood, and how we relate to asian masculinity.
This conversation is divided into two parts.
I am excited to start Asian Provocation's Patreon page. You can now support this podcast at
http://www.patreon.com/asianprovocation
4. Lulu Yao Gioiello — far___near
The pre-order of Far—Near's volume 3 is now available at
https://far-near.media/
You can find all the references and links that we spoke about here:
https://www.ayotoataraxia.com/projects/asian-provocation-4-lulu-yao-gioiello-on-far-near/
3. Peter Leung — Stepping Outside Our Boxes
The Same Space, the latest dance film project by Peter Leung, The Same Space is part of the Virtual Residences of de Nederlandse Dansdagen. The piece can be watched here:
www.operaballet.nl/en/news/2020/10/online-premiere-same-space-peter-leung
In this episode of the podcast, Ayoto Ataraxia speaks with Peter Leung about creating during the time of Covid-19
They discuss:
masculinity
identity and asian roots
Peter Leung’s new piece, “Same Space”
how they relate to names
the idea of male leadership
Peter Leung, is a choreographer and artistic director. He danced with the Bayerisches Staatsballett, Le Ballet de l’Opéra de Lyon and Dutch National Ballet. He is one of the founders of Foundation House of Makers, an interdisciplinary, site-specific arts company. Since January 2017 Peter has been affiliated with the Dutch National Ballet as a Young Creative Associate.
He has created work for Dutch National Ballet, New English Ballet Theatre, Origen Cultural Festival, van Gogh Museum, Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam Kunsthal, EYE museum and Tropenmuseum.
The Same Space, the latest dance film project by Peter Leung, The Same Space is part of the Virtual Residences of de Nederlandse Dansdagen. The piece can be watched here:
www.operaballet.nl/en/news/2020/10/online-premiere-same-space-peter-leung
Transcripts can be found on www.ayotoataraxia.com
You can your thoughts with me via Twitter or Instagram, via Asian Provocation
2. Tu Au — Asian Experiences in Australia
- the difficulty of Asian names while living in an Anglo country.
- generational experiences and difficulties that comes with being an émigré
- experiences and observations of racism
- how racism effects asian men and asian women differently
- the problem with integration
- and other topics
Tu Au, also known as Mia Hunter currently resides in Australia, she was born in Vietnam, and her family was effected by the war in Vietnam, and has emigrated to Australia in the 70s.
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Subtitled Video @ Youtube
Transcript on www.ayotoataraxia.com
1. Ron Hades — On being the only working asian male dom in Germany
I have a conversation with the only asian male dom sex worker in Germany, about asian diasporic experiences, sex work, asian masculinity and ideas of home.
Ron Hades’ website
Twitter:
Transcript available at
http://www.ayotoataraxia.com