Charlie Don't Surf: 4 Vietnamese American Artists

Catalogue for two exhibitions held at Centre A (Vancouver): "Charlie don’t surf! / 4 Vietnamese American Artists" from April 9 to May 21, 2005 and "Kim Huynh: Inflected Signs" from February 25 to April 2, 2005.

'This exhibition and the accompanying essays featured in this catalogue also form a

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wayward archive, an attempt to map complex, multilayered socio-political and individual histories and diasporic creative practices which stem from those histories. 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 USA, "Charlie don’t surf!: 4 Vietnamese American Artists" examines contemporary Vietnamese American visual artists whose work and subjectivity is affected by these socio-political intersections.'

(Abstract from essay by Viet Le)

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