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One Day We’ll Go Home featuring Tiffany Chung, Brandon Tho Harris, Tuan Andrew Nguyen, Patricia Nguyen and Julian Saporiti.

Media Art Gallery

Emerson Contemporary, Emerson College’s platform for visual art, proudly presents One Day We’ll Go Home, a group exhibition featuring recent work by five Vietnamese American artists Tiffany Chung, Brandon Tho Harris, Tuấn Andrew Nguyễn, Patricia Nguyễn, and Julian Saporiti who each critique the established historical narratives of the wars in Vietnam, colonialism, dislocation, and their...

History and Archives: A Music Video Workshop with Dr. Julian Saporiti

EVENTBRITE Registration required, limited seats (15), free. In this workshop, musician and scholar Dr. Julian Saporiti will discuss how to use your personal story, family archive, and history in your work. He has used the medium of music videos to transform his doctoral research on Asian American history into easily consumable public art pieces. Through his project...

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Artist Talk with filmmaker and sculptor Tuan Andrew Nguyễn.

Please join us for a talk and Q&A with filmmaker and sculptor Tuan Andrew Nguyễn. Walker 202, 120 Boylston St. Boston, MA. Doors open at 4pm. Free, but Registration Required via EventBrite. Nguyễn lives and works Hồ Chí Minh City, Việt Nam. Tuấn Andrew Nguyễn’s practice explores the power of memory and its potential to act...

No-No Boy: Live in Concert

Pao Arts Center 99 Albany Street Boston, Massachusetts, United States

This event is sold out. Register here to join the waitlist. Experience a multimedia musical performance from artist Julian Saporiti, known as No-No Boy, as part of the tour for his latest album Empire Electric. This newest release brings Asian American history to life through a uniquely inventive approach to storytelling. This program is organized by the PAO Art Center and...

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Live Performance, Passage (2023) by Patricia Nguyễn and Fiona Ngô

Media Art Gallery 25 Avery Street, Boston, Massachusetts

A work of experimental sound and movement, Passage explores how beauty and creativity emerge in the aftermath of war. The artists meditate upon the various thresholds and movements that happen for displaced peoples across the time and space of memory, everyday encounters of state violence, forced migration, and queer worldmaking. This event is free and open to...

BECAUSE I COME FROM YOU

This project began as a journal entry to the artist’s younger self: “I just want to give you a hug. I want to see you smile and laugh. But that’s what I see in the mirror, isn’t it? I just don’t recognize it. You are me? I am you. I’m different, of course. I’m older. ‘Soiled’ by the world, as some would say. But I have you in me. I can be who I want to be because I come from you.”

Vietnam and Diasporic Aesthetics: Two Meditations. Dr. Howie Tam & Dr. Catherine H. Nguyen

Media Art Gallery 25 Avery Street, Boston, Massachusetts, United States

The first event in the Writing, Literature & Publishing Scholar Series, this program is presented in conjunction with One Day We’ll Go Home and supported in part by the Harvard University Asia Center. Taking as a point of departure some works of Vietnamese American artistic production both in the gallery space and beyond, this two-part talk with...

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PURPOSEFULLY LOST

Huret & Spector Gallery; Tufte Building

Presenting the Fall 2023 Photography Practicum: Purposefully Lost, a varied collection of reflections and expressions by Emerson artists in the BFA program. Featuring exhibits by the following resident artists:Aquaholic by Kyra Badger Urban Eden by Molly Berard Shit Show by Maya Bergman Starring... by Charlene Cheung Cardboard Reality by Jose Benito Guevera Concurrent by Yangyang...