Imagining Queer Bandung: Creating a Transnational and Decolonial Queer Space

Bao, Hongwei

Abstract

This chapter examines the Imagining Queer Bandung project, a series of media and art events that took place in Berlin from June to August 2021. It sees the project as a good example of the queer people of colour’s transnational solidarity and decolonization enacted at a grassroots level outside the purview of nation states. This chapter explores how queer people of colour can use cultural and artistic methods to imagine and enact transnational solidarities. It demonstrates that queer Chinese filmmakers, artists and activists have actively been working with their counterparts from other parts of the world to pursue queer activism, to enact transnational queer solidarity and to articulate a decolonial queer stance. This points to the global and activist potentials that queer Chinese art engenders.

Citation

Bao, H. (2023). Imagining Queer Bandung: Creating a Transnational and Decolonial Queer Space. In H. Bao, D. Mergenthaler, & J. J. Zhao (Eds.), Contemporary Queer Chinese Art. Bloomsbury Publishing

• Online Publication Date: Jun 15, 2023
• Publication Date: Jul 13, 2023
• Deposit Date: Feb 26, 2023
• Publicly Available Date: Dec 16, 2023
• Series Title: Queering China: Transnational Genders and Sexualities
• Book Title: Contemporary Queer Chinese Art
• Chapter Number: 15
• ISBN: 9781350333512
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/17852139
• Related Public URLs: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/contemporary-queer-chinese-art-9781350333512/