Angry Hotel

Angry Hotel (2010-2015), is a body of multidisciplinary work that takes the form of video installations and performances, where a dictator and his comrades trash globalized white supremacy. In particular, they focus on the difficulties of being minorities in enforced Euro-American educational standards. While much of what they say reveals a kind of cultural imperialism imposed by Anglophones, the cantankerous duo’s aggressive gestures and inebriated Korean profanities often threaten to derail topical discussions. 

Although rage might mar the coherence of activism, it is also surprisingly productive. Not only is it opposed to subordination, but its affective volatility aligns with that of yellow complexities. The pair rightfully argues that their intersectional, localized specificities are often ignored or misinterpreted by institutionalized Western Post- discourse. Therefore, their unbridled, inarticulate aggressions become a paradoxically apt medium through which the unknowability of yellow particularities can be channeled and vocalized without surrendering any more knowledge for neo-colonial co-optation. Although rarely represented, militarized yellow queerness can relish its temporary airtime as a new-fangled stratagem for articulating revolutionary differences.