In Surface Relations Vivian L. Huang traces how Asian and Asian
American artists have strategically reworked the pernicious
stereotype of inscrutability as a dynamic antiracist, feminist, and
queer form of resistance. Following inscrutability in literature,
visual culture, and performance art since 1965, Huang articulates
how Asian American artists take up the aesthetics of Asian
inscrutability-such as invisibility, silence, unreliability,
flatness, and withholding-to express Asian American life. Through
analyses of diverse works by performance artists (Tehching Hsieh,
Baseera Khan, Emma Sulkowicz, Tseng Kwong Chi), writers (Kim Fu,
Kai Cheng Thom, Monique Truong), and video, multimedia, and
conceptual artists (Laurel Nakadate, Yoko Ono, Mika Tajima), Huang
challenges neoliberal narratives of assimilation that erase
Asianness. By using sound, touch, and affect, these artists and
writers create new frameworks for affirming Asianness as a source
of political and social critique and innovative forms of life and
creativity. Duke University Press Scholars of Color First Book
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