Press release - Charlie Don't Surf exhibition @ Centre A - Please post

[Viet Le]

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www.centrea.org
 Centre A presents

Charlie Don't Surf
4 VIETNAMESE AMERICAN ARTISTS: Dinh Q. LE, NGUYEN Tan Hoang, Ann PHONG
TRAN T. Kim-Trang

Curated by Viet LE

Exhibition: 9 April - 21 May 2005
Opening: Saturday, April 9, 8pm

Panel Discussion: 
"Charlie Don't Surf: Art, the Politics of Identity, and the Vietnam War"
Sunday, April 10, 2-5pm, Vancouver Art Gallery, room 403. Admission is free.

Panelists: Dinh Q. Le (artist; Ho Chi Minh/Los Angeles); Viet Le
(artist/curator; PhD candidate, USC, Los Angeles); Nguyen Tan Hoang
(filmmaker/artist; PhD candidate, UC, Berkeley); Nhan Duc Nguyen (artist;
Vancouver); Ann Phong (artist; Los Angeles); and Moira Roth (art historian
and critic; Mills College, Oakland, CA). Moderated by Alice Ming Wai Jim
(curator; Centre A).


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 these socio-political intersections. Through experimental video, abstract
painting, and photography, the diverse practices of these multi-generational
artists explore memory, failure, sexuality, trauma, and the ambivalent
politics of cultural difference. How has the legacy of the Vietnam War
affected the work of these multiply diasporic artists (or has it)? How do
they address-or problematize-the burden of representation and assumptions
about Vietnamese American subjectivity?

The exhibition is accompanied by a colour catalogue (32 illns;106pp), edited
by Viet Le and Alice Ming Wai Jim, with essays by Linda Thinh Vo, Mariam
Beevi Lam, Moira Roth, and others. * Special price on opening night.

Centre A gratefully acknowledges the generous support of its patrons,
sponsors, members, partners, private foundations, and government funding
agencies, including the Canada Council for the Arts, the British Columbia
Arts Council, and the City of Vancouver through the Office of Cultural
Affairs. "Charlie Don't Surf: 4 Vietnamese American Artists" is also
supported in part by SEATRiP ("Southeast Asia: Text, Ritual, Performance"
Research Program), University of California at Riverside; the Long March
Foundation; the VAWA Fest (Vietnamese American Women Artists Festival); the
Vancouver Art Gallery; the Vietnamese American Arts and Letters Association
(VAALA); and individual patrons Dawn Akemi Nakaya, Hong Hoa Thi Ho, and
Catherine Hong Le. Additional support for related education programs for the
exhibition has been provided by a Diversities Initiatives grant from the
City of Vancouver.

Presented in affiliation with explorAsian-Vancouver Asian Heritage Month
festival.

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For more info, please contact:

Centre A - Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art
849 Homer Street, Vancouver, BC, V6B 2W2
Tel: 604-683-8326
Fax: 604-683-8632
email: centrea at centrea.org
website: www.centrea.org
gallery hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 11am-6pm
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