The Asian Art Museum, San Francisco is hosting a new exhibit called Into View:New Voices,New Stories. It features 14 Asian American artists and Asian Diaspora artists who are redefining the past and bringing it into the present. The artists assume the roles of historians and writers, re-examining the narratives we’ve heard about our lives and history and changing them in a way that challenges our traditional ways to think. The process of doing so is called “speculative fabulation,” inspired and pulled from author and professor Donna Haraway, as a touchstone for the entire exhibition. The results of such a strategy are paintings, sculptures, and video works…
