Jeannine Tang

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Jeannine Tang is an art historian from Singapore, who teaches as Assistant Professor in the Department of Performance Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts, NYU. Recent collaborative programs with the Singapore Biennale (2022) and Asia Art Archive in America (2023 -) have emphasized Asian/diasporic feminist, queer and trans* artistic and curatorial practices.

Why PS @ NYU? 

"The research and practices of PS students and faculty have historically forged a refuge for the brilliant, weird and wild. Like so many people, I’ve long been moved by the critical and imaginative work here. Now that I’m on the sixth floor, I’m inspired every day by how the faculty, staff and students are ferociously smart, and how they don’t let that get in the way of being thoughtful and kind. People at PS care deeply–in thought and in practice–about how to live, make and share a world."

-Jeannine Tang

What are your areas of concentration/study?

My graduate work was in art history, primarily in histories of contemporary art after the 1960s. My work often folds trans and queer studies with aesthetic practices, visual and material cultures.

 

 

What is some of your recent works?

“Videotage: Emergent Infrastructures,” The New Television: Video After Television. eds Rachel Churner, Rebecca Cleman, Tyler Maxin (MIT Press and no place press, 2024) 

“Special Effects,” Joan Jonas eds. Barbara Clausen and Kristin Poor (New York: Dia Museum, 2023)

“micha cárdenas’ Becoming Dragon (2008) and Azdel Slade” Trans Hirstory in 99 Objects eds. Chris E. Vargas, Christina Linden, and David Evans Frantz (University of Chicago Press and Hirmer Verlag, 2023)

What is one of your favorite courses to teach and why?

I’ve started to teach Topics in Transgender Studies courses at NYU Tisch. Last year I taught a graduate seminar on trans* aesthetics, art and culture. In 2025 I am teaching a seminar on trans* histories, and will probably offer a third iteration of the topics class in 2026/2027. I love how students bring enormous care, passion and investments of their own, and how this course attracts students with a variety of interests and contexts – performance studies as it meets the visual, cinematic and performing arts, geography, history, politics, media and culture.