KADIST San Francisco and Delfina Foundation are pleased to present iterations of de montañas submarinas el fuego hace islas [from the underwater mountains fire makes islands].
In 2008, my artwork Phở Dog was condemned by respected spokespersons in the Vietnamese diasporic community as ‘communist propaganda.’ As an Australian artist of Vietnamese descent, I learnt my father’s native tongue as a young adult during my time in the north of the country. Later I would be criticised for speaking with a ‘communist accent.’ These formative experiences became the departure point for Vomit Girl Beyond Diasporic Trauma, a practice-based research project that examines how acculturated intergenerational trauma gives rise to binary identities and fixed narratives that prevent meaningful reconnection with ‘homelands.’ This research project proposes that contemporary art can draw from folkloric strategies to open up spaces for suppressed, hidden, and new stories to emerge beyond diasporic trauma.
The project begins with a revisit to my 1994 encounters with ‘village arts’ on the river plains of northern Vietnam. Close studies of artefacts, specifically đ�
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