ACADEMIC JOURNAL ARTICLES

Valjakka, Minna. 2022. “Layers of (In)Visible Resilience: Art, Women, and Homelessness in Japan.” Critical Asian Studies 54 (3): 348-373. (First online 2 June 2022). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14672715.2022.2079540. [open access]

Valjakka, Minna. 2021. “From Material Ephemerality to Immaterial Permanency: The disCONNECT Exhibition and the Realms of Interactive Immersiveness.” Nuart Journal 3 (1): 120–133 [open access].

Valjakka, Minna. 2021. “Introduction: Shifting Undergrounds in East and Southeast Asia.” Cultural Studies 35 (1): 1–26. (First online 28 Dec 2020). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2020.1844256. [open access]

Valjakka, Minna. 2021. “Affective Paragrounds: Alternative Envisionings through Multidisciplinary Contemporary Arts in Singapore.” Cultural Studies 35 (1): 183–209. (First online 18 Dec 2020). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2020.1844264.

Valjakka, Minna. 2020. “Co-authoring the space: the initial Lennon Wall Hong Kong in 2014 as socially engaged creativity.” Cultural Studies 34 (6): 979–1006. (First online 13 Dec 2019). DOI: 10.1080/09502386.2019.1698056.

Valjakka, Minna. 2020. “Urban Hacking: The Versatile Forms of Cultural Resilience in Hong Kong.” URBAN DESIGN International, 25: 152–164. (First online 5 Feb 2019). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41289-019-00079-5. (pdf)

Valjakka, Minna. 2019. “Worlding through Gendering: Female Agency, Artistic Practices and Spatio-aesthetic Dynamics in and for Cities.” City, Culture and Society, 19: 100283. (First online 16 Apr 2019). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ccs.2019.02.001. (pdf)

Valjakka, Minna. 2017. “The Tipping Point for Alternatives in East Asian Arts.” The Newsletter (International Institute for Asian Studies) 76 (Spring): 29‒30. [open access]

Valjakka, Minna. 2017. “Hacking Hong Kong. Urban Creativity as Dissidence and Participation.” The Newsletter (International Institute for Asian Studies) 76 (Spring): 40‒41. [open access]

Wang, Meiqin and Valjakka, Minna. 2015. “Urbanized Interfaces: Visual Arts in Chinese Cities,” in “Visual Arts and Urbanization,” special issue. China Information 29 (2): 139–153.

Valjakka, Minna. 2015. “Negotiating Spatial Politics: Site-responsiveness in Chinese Urban Art Images.” in “Visual Arts and Urbanization,” special issue. China Information 29 (2): 253–281.

Valjakka, Minna. 2014. “Contesting the Levels of Il/legality of Urban Art Images in China.” Revista de Cultura / Review of Culture, International Edition, 45: 96‒117.

Valjakka, Minna. 2012. “Kiinalaisen urbaanin taiteen kulttuurisidonnaisuus.” [The cultural contextuality of Chinese urban art.] Tahiti, 1: np. [Finnish open access journal of Art History]. [open access]

Valjakka, Minna. 2011. “Graffiti in China - Chinese Graffiti?” in “Artists and Art Worlds in Asia,” special issue. The Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies 29 (1): 61–91. [open access]

Valjakka, Minna. 2011. “Parodying Mao’s Image: Caricaturing in Contemporary Chinese Art,” in Chinese Art between Tradition and Modernity,” special issue. Asian and African Studies 15 (1): 87–112. [open access]

Valjakka, Minna. 2010. “Performance Art at Tian’anmen.” KONTUR: Culture, History, Politics. Tidsskrift for Kulturstudier 12 (20): 19–28. [open access]

SPECIAL ISSUES AND SECTIONS

Valjakka, Minna (guest editor). 2022. “Gender Borders: Contemporary Cross-disciplinary Perspectives on Resistance and Resilience in Asian Cities” [Special Section]. Critical Asian Studies, 54 (3).

Valjakka, Minna (guest editor). 2021. “Shifting Undergrounds in East and Southeast Asia” [Special Issue]. Cultural Studies, 35 (1).

Connolly, Creighton, Valjakka Minna and Sham Desmond Hock-Man (guest editors). 2020. “Remapping the Arts, Heritage and Cultural Production: Between Policies and Practices in East and Southeast Asian Cities” [Special Section] City, Culture and Society, 21.

Valjakka, Minna (guest editor). 2017. [open access] “Alternatives in East Asian Arts” [Special Issue]. The Focus, The Newslettter, International Institute for Asian Studies, 76, (Spring 2017).

Wang, Meiqin and Valjakka, Minna (guest editors.) 2015. “Visual Arts and Urbanization” [Special Issue], China Information, 29 (2).

OTHER ARTICLES

Valjakka, Minna. 2012. “Kiinalaisen nykytaiteen matka kansainväliseen menestykseen. Osa 2.” [The journey of Chinese contemporary art to international fame. Part 2.] Kiina sanoin ja kuvin, [Words and images of China] 2: 7–12.

Valjakka, Minna. 2012. “Kiinalaisen nykytaiteen matka kansainväliseen menestykseen. Osa 1.” [The international success of the Chinese contemporary art. Part 1.] Kiina sanoin ja kuvin. [Words and images of China], 1: 16–20.

Valjakka, Minna. 2011. “Yang Fudongin video- ja valokuvataide: epätodellisuuden tuolla puolen?” [The video and photographic art of Yang Fudong: beyond the unreality?] Taide & Design. [Art & Design], 6: 56–63.

Valjakka, Minna. 2008. [open access] “Idän Hollywood – elokuvan alkuvaiheet Shanghaissa.” [Hollywood of the East – Initial Steps of Cinema in Shanghai.] WiderScreen 1 [Finnish academic journal focusing on multimedial, digital, and audiovisual media culture.] 

Valjakka, Minna. 2007. “Sydämen runoilija Zhang Xiaogang.” [Zhang Xiaogang: A Poet by Heart.] Taide 5: 24–29.

BOOK CHAPTERS

Valjakka, Minna. 2023. “Transcribed Flows and Arrhythmias: ‘Graffiti’ in Relation to Epigraphic and Artistic Trajectories in Today’s Mainland China.” In Graffiti Scratched, Scrawled, Sprayed. Towards a Cross-Cultural Understanding, eds. by Ondřej Škrabal, Leah Mascia, Ann Lauren Osthof and Malena Ratzke. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023, 233‒63 [open access].

Valjakka, Minna. 2023. “Contemporary Arts in and for Civil Society.” In Routledge Handbook of Civil and Uncivil Society in Southeast Asia, eds. Eva Hansson and Meredith L. Weiss. London: Routledge, 45‒64. [open access].

Valjakka, Minna. 2022. “Gendered Tonalities: Urban Publicness through Street Art and Murals by and for Women in East Asian Cities.” In Socially Engaged Public Art in East Asia: Space, Place, and Community in Action, ed. Meiqin Wang. Wilmington: Vernon Press. 23‒56.

Valjakka, Minna. 2020. “Arts and Ecosystems: Building Towards Regeneration of ‘Cultural Resilience’ in Indonesia.” In Forces of Art: Perspectives from a Changing World, eds. Carin Kuoni, Jordi Baltà Portolés, Nora N. Khan, and Serubiri Moses. Amsterdam: Valiz, 131‒160. (pdf).

Valjakka, Minna. 2019. “Cross-cultural Collaboration: Modes of Participation for Co-creation of the Urban Public Space. In Cultures of Participation – Arts, Digital Media and Cultural Institutions, eds. Birgit Erickson, Carsten Stage, and Bjarki Valtysson, 51‒70. London: Routledge.

Valjakka, Minna. 2018. “Translocal Site-responsiveness of Urban Creativity in Mainland China.” In Visual Arts, Representations and Interventions in Contemporary China. Urbanized Interface. Asian Cities series, eds. Minna Valjakka and Meiqin Wang, 285‒315. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. (pdf)

Valjakka, Minna and Wang Meiqin. 2018. “Engagement with the Urban: Visual Arts as a form of Cultural Activism in Contemporary China.” In Visual Arts, Representations and Interventions in Contemporary China. Urbanized Interface. Asian Cities series, eds. Minna Valjakka and Meiqin Wang, 13‒31. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. [open access]

Valjakka, Minna. 2018. [open access] “Beyond Artification: De/reconstructing conceptual frameworks and hierarchies of artistic and creative practices in urban public space.” In Urban Art: Creating the Urban with Art, eds. Ulrich Blanché and Ilaria Hoppe, 37‒48. Lisbon: Urban Creativity.

Valjakka, Minna. 2017. “Kaunottarista  uuden kansakunnan rakentajiksi.” [From Beauties to the Builders of New Nation.] In Kielletty Kaupunki [Forbidden City]. Exhibition catalogue, 68‒74. Tampere: Museum Centre Vapriikki.

Valjakka, Minna. 2016. “Claiming Spaces for Urban Art Images in Beijing and Shanghai.” In Routledge Handbook of Graffiti and Street Art, ed. Jeffrey Ian Ross, 357‒362. New York: Routledge.

Valjakka, Minna. 2016. “Contesting Transcultural Trends: Emerging Self-identities and Urban Art Images in Hong Kong.” In Routledge Handbook of Graffiti and Street Art, ed. Jeffrey Ian Ross, 381‒387. New York: Routledge.

Valjakka, Minna. 2016. “Naistaiteilijat ja globaalin nykytaiteen haasteet.” [Female artists and the challenges of global contemporary art scene.] In Enemmän kuin puoli taivasta: kiinalainen nainen historiassa, yhteiskunnassa ja kulttuurissa. [More than Half the Sky: Chinese Women in History, Society and Culture], eds. Tiina Airaksinen, Elina Sinkkonen and Minna Valjakka, 347‒383. Helsinki: Art House.

Airaksinen, Tiina, Sinkkonen, Elina, and Valjakka, Minna. 2016. “Toiminnan naisia.” [Women of Action.] In Enemmän kuin puoli taivasta: kiinalainen nainen historiassa, yhteiskunnassa ja kulttuurissa. [More than Half the Sky: Chinese Women in History, Society and Culture], eds. Tiina Airaksinen, Elina Sinkkonen and Minna Valjakka, 11‒34. Helsinki: Art House.

Valjakka, Minna. 2016. “Jalkojen sitominen.” [Foot binding]. In Enemmän kuin puoli taivasta: kiinalainen nainen historiassa, yhteiskunnassa ja kulttuurissa. [More than Half the Sky: Chinese Women in History, Society and Culture], eds. Tiina Airaksinen, Elina Sinkkonen and Minna Valjakka, 71‒75. Helsinki: Art House.

Valjakka, Minna. 2016. “Jiang Qing: valkokankaalta vallan syövereihin.” [Jiang Qing: From screen to the depths of power.] In Enemmän kuin puoli taivasta: kiinalainen nainen historiassa, yhteiskunnassa ja kulttuurissa. [More than Half the Sky: Chinese Women in History, Society and Culture], eds. Tiina Airaksinen, Elina Sinkkonen and Minna Valjakka, 95‒99. Helsinki: Art House.

Valjakka, Minna. 2016. “Urbaani taide ja naiset.” [Urban art and women.] In Enemmän kuin puoli taivasta: kiinalainen nainen historiassa, yhteiskunnassa ja kulttuurissa. [More than Half the Sky: Chinese Women in History, Society and Culture], eds. Tiina Airaksinen, Elina Sinkkonen and Minna Valjakka, 383‒387. Helsinki: Art House.

Valjakka, Minna. 2015. “Echoes of Silence: Art Against Amnesia.” In Whither China and the Communist Party Regime? Remembering June Fourth after Twenty-five Years. ed. Joseph Cheng, 172‒213. Hong Kong: Contemporary China Research Project, City University of Hong Kong.

Valjakka, Minna. 2015. “Urban Art Images and the Concerns of Mainlandization in Hong Kong.” In Asian Cities: Colonial to Global, ed. Gregory Bracken, 93‒121. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.

Valjakka, Minna. “Renegotiating the Traumatizing Experiences: Reemploying Visual Images of Mao in Contemporary Art.” In The Use of Mao and the Chongqing Model, ed. Joseph Cheng, 277‒318. Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong Press.

Valjakka, Minna. 2014. “Kaid Ashton: Conflating streets, arts, and charity.” In Lisbon Street Art & Urban Creativity, eds. P. Soares Neves and D. V. de Freitas Simões,  149–157. Lisbon: Urban Creativity.

Valjakka, Minna. 2012. “Kiinalaisen taiteen arvottamisen lähtökohtia ja muutoksia.” [Starting points and changes in the evaluation of Chinese Art.] In Lohikäärmeen vuosi. Kiinan dynastioiden taidetta. [The Year of the Dragon. Art from the Chinese Dynasties], eds. E. Nieminen and A. Waenerberg. Exhibition catalogue, 13–33. Joensuu: Joensuu Art Museum.

Valjakka, Minna. 2009. “Kiinalainen nykytaide, Mao ja Tiananmen.” [Chinese Contemporary Art, Mao and Tiananmen]. In Pekingin Kevät 1989, [Beijing Spring 1989], eds. Raisa Asikainen, Teemu Naarajärvi and Juha Vuori, 120–121. Helsinki: Gaudeamus.

Valjakka, Minna. 2008. “Inciting mental terror as effective governmental control: Chinese propaganda posters during the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976).” In Terror and the Arts: Artistic, Literary, and Political Interpretations of Violence from Dostoyevsky to Abu Ghraib, eds. M. Hyvärinen and L. Muszynski, 165–183. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.