Charlie Don't Surf: 4 Vietnamese American Artists

by Viet Le; Alice Ming Wai Jim; Vancouver International Centre for Asian Art

Paperback, 2005

Status

Available

Call number

EX.THA.CDS

Publication

Vancouver International Centre for Contempoary Asian Art (2005)

Physical description

105 p.

ISBN

0973271116 / 9780973271119

Call number

EX.THA.CDS

Library's review

Thirty years after The Fall of Saigon in Vietnam, and a decade after the flowering and subsequent proclaimed failure of multiculturalism and identity politics in the United States, this exhibition highlights contemporary Vietnamese American visual artists whose work and subjectivity is affected by
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these socio-political intersections. Through experimental video, abstract painting, and photography, these multi-generational artists’ seemingly disparate practices explore memory, failure, sexuality, trauma, and the ambivalent politics of cultural difference. Featured artists Include Dinh Q. Le, Nguyen Tan Hoang, Ann Phong, Tran T. Kim-Trang and curated by Alice Ming Wai Jim and Viet Le.'
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Pages

105
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