LOVING BELINDA

The book Loving Belinda takes outset in Jane Jin Kaisen’s artworks Adopting Belinda (2006), Revisiting the Andersons (2015), Loving Belinda (2015), and The Andersons (2015). The works employ the ‘mockumentary’ form to reverse the racial dynamics prevailing within the structure of transnational adoption. Uneven but often unsaid power structures, privileges, and emotional economies, as well as new ways in which transnational adoption are sought legitimized in the West are negotiated in the works with ironic and destabilizing effect.

The book includes text contributions by Lene Myong, Louise Wolthers, Marianne Ping Huang, Morten Goll, Tobias Hübinette and Tone Olaf Nielsen, as well as illustrations from a selection of Jane Jin Kaisen’s works created between 2004-2015.

180 pages. Illustrated, color. 2015.

Published by Forlaget *[asterisk]