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SUMMARY:One Day We’ll Go Home featuring Tiffany Chung\, Brandon Tho Harris\, Tuan Andrew Nguyen\, Patricia Nguyen and Julian Saporiti.
DESCRIPTION:Tuan Andrew Nguyen (Vietnamese\, b. 1976)\, The Boat People\, 2020\, Single-channel video\, 4k\, Super 16mm transferred to digital\, color\, 5.1 surround sound\, 20 mins\, Edition of 5 plus 2 artist’s proofs\, (JCG11340)\, © Tuan Andrew Nguyen 2021. Image courtesy the artist and James Cohan\, New York\n\n\n\nEmerson 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 long-lasting aftermath.  \n\n\n\nOn view in the Media Art Gallery at 25 Avery Street\, November 1 – December 16\, 2023. Free and open to the public\, Tuesday – Saturday from 12-6pm. Opening Reception\, Friday\, November 3\, 5-7:30PM. \n\n\n\nThe end of the Vietnam War and the sudden U.S. military evacuations in 1975 marked the beginning of large-scale exodus of citizens of Vietnam. The U.S. government evacuated approximately 125\,000 Vietnamese that year\, most of whom were likely to be persecuted by the new Socialist Republic of Vietnam government. Through video\, archival footage\, performance\, song\, and innovative storytelling\, these five artists examine and expand recent histories\, both personal and collective\, as they address multigenerational trauma and loss. The exhibition highlights the complexities surrounding the concept of homeland for Vietnamese refugees and their children and the familiar feeling of liminality that many refugees experience across the globe.  \n\n\n\nView exhibition documentation. \n\n\n\n“It is my hope that through the stories these artists tell\, we gain a deeper understanding of what happened in Vietnam and how these events continue to impact millions of people to this day\,” said Dr. Leonie Bradbury\, Emerson College’s Distinguished Curator-in-Residence. “Although this exhibition is focused on the Vietnamese diaspora and the impact of the historic events of 1975 and beyond\, sadly this topic has renewed relevance today as many refugee crises are happening concurrently across the globe.” The exhibition is curated by Dr. Leonie Bradbury\, Distinguished Curator-in-Residence\, with accompanying exhibition wall texts by Dr. Catherine H. Nguyen\, Assistant Professor of Asian Diasporic Literatures. This exhibition and related programming is supported by the Department of Writing\, Literature & Publishing\, Emerson College School of the Arts\, and the Harvard University Asia Center. \n\n\n\nPUBLIC PROGRAMMING \n\n\n\nWHAT: Music Video workshop with Julian Saporiti WHEN: Friday\, November 3\, 2023. 10:00-12:30PM WHERE: Emerson College\, Ansin Building\, Room 605\, 180 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA Free\, but registration is required. RSVP here. \n\n\n\nArtist Talk with Tuan Andrew Nguyen\, Friday\, November 3\, 2023. doors open at 3:30PM\, 4-5:00PM.  Emerson College\, Walker Building\, Room 202\, 120 Boylston Street\, Boston\, MA. Free\, but registration is required. RSVP here. This program is supported in part by the Harvard University Asia Center \n\n\n\nOpening Reception\, One Day We’ll Go Home WHEN: Friday\, November 3\, 2023\, 5-7:30PM WHERE: Media Art Gallery\, 25 Avery Street\, Boston\, MA. \n\n\n\nLive Concert with Julian Saporiti. Experience a multimedia musical performance from No-No Boy (singer Julian Saporiti) 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. WHEN: Saturday\, November 4\, 2023\, 6:00-7:30PM. WHERE: Pao Arts Center\, 99 Albany Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02111.This program is organized by the PAO Art Center and supported by Emerson Contemporary. \n\n\n\nLive Performance\, Passage (2023) by Patricia Nguyễn and Fiona. 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.  Tuesday\, November 14\, 2023\, 5-6:30PM\, Media Art Gallery \n\n\n\nVietnam and Diasporic Aesthetics: Two Meditations. A conversation with Dr. Howie J. Tam & Dr. Catherine H. Nguyen. 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 Catherine H. Nguyen (Emerson College) and Howie Tam (Brandeis University) explores different approaches of receiving and encountering artworks and engages diasporic aesthetics that grapples with the legacy of the Vietnam War and its enduring questions about creation and memory. Wednesday\, December 6\, 2023\, 5-6:30PM. Media Art Gallery\, 25 Avery St. Boston\, MAThis program is supported by Department of Writing\, Literature & Publishing\, Scholar Series\, Southeast Asia Programs\, Harvard University Asia Center and Emerson Contemporary \n\n\n\n.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/one-day-well-go-home/
LOCATION:Media Art Gallery
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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SUMMARY:History and Archives: A Music Video Workshop with Dr. Julian Saporiti
DESCRIPTION:EVENTBRITE Registration required\, limited seats (15)\, free. \n\n\n\nIn 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 No-No Boy (Smithsonian Folkways Records)\, Saporiti has been able to reach broad (non-academic) audiences by using visuals and songwriting instead of academic papers.  \n\n\n\nBreaking down several videos included in the One Day We’ll Go Home exhibition\, Saporiti will discuss the process of turning academic research into public art and offer insight into the societal impact public-facing history can have. Participants will be led through the artist’s production process and learn how rigorous archival research and deeply exploring one’s cultural background can produce rich ground for any creative practice. 
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/accessing-history-and-archives-a-music-video-workshop-with-dr-julian-saporiti/
CATEGORIES:Public Program,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Artist Talk with filmmaker and sculptor Tuan Andrew Nguyễn.
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a talk and Q&A with filmmaker and sculptor Tuan Andrew Nguyễn. \n\n\n\nWalker 202\, 120 Boylston St. Boston\, MA. Doors open at 4pm. Free\, but Registration Required via EventBrite. \n\n\n\nNguyễn lives and works Hồ Chí Minh City\, Việt Nam. \n\n\n\nTuấn Andrew Nguyễn’s practice explores the power of memory and its potential to act as a form of political resistance. His practice is fueled by research and a commitment to communities that have faced traumas caused by colonialism\, war\, and displacement. Through his continuous attempts to engage with vanishing or vanquished historical memory\, Nguyễn investigates the erasures that the colonial project has brought to bear on certain parts of the world. Through collaborative endeavors with various communities throughout the world\, Nguyen sets out to cultivate and empower these strategies enacted and embodied by his collaborators. Through this collaborative practice\, he explores memory as a form of resistance and empowerment\, emphasizing the power of storytelling as a means for healing\, empathy and solidarity. \n\n\n\nNguyễn\, based primarily in Saigon\, works between various mediums but devotes much of his attention towards producing moving-image works and sculpture. Nguyễn’s intrigued with the relationship between narrative and objects leads him to make projects that combine moving image and sculpture – oftentimes many of his films begin with an object\, such as destroyed memorials built by former refugees\, or the skeletal remains of the last rhino in Vietnam for instance\, and its story.  Approaching memory as a phenomenon that is intangible and abstract\, Nguyễn often thinks beyond the restrictions of time (past\, present\, future) which also gives way to thinking about supernaturalisms (ghosts\, specters\, hauntings) as political tools.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/artist-talk-with-filmmaker-and-sculptor-tuan-andrew-nguyen/
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Public Program
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SUMMARY:No-No Boy: Live in Concert
DESCRIPTION:This event is sold out. Register here to join the waitlist. \n\n\n\nExperience 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 supported by Emerson Contemporary.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/no-no-boy-live-in-concert/
LOCATION:Pao Arts Center\, 99 Albany Street Boston\, Massachusetts\, 02111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Performance
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SUMMARY:Live Performance\, Passage (2023) by Patricia Nguyễn and Fiona Ngô
DESCRIPTION:Still from “Collapse to Expand” by Patricia Nguyen\n\n\n\nA 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. \n\n\n\nThis event is free and open to the public.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/live-performance-passage-2023-by-patricia-nguyen-and-fiona/
LOCATION:Media Art Gallery\, 25 Avery Street\, Boston\, Massachusetts\, 02111
CATEGORIES:Performance
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