Film screening of a contemporary Southeast Asian Artist: UuDam Tran Nguyen

2205 Broadway,Boulder CO 80302

24 February, 2022

Description

East Window partners with University of Colorado, Boulder to present a series of film screenings of contemporary Southeast Asian Artists. Information on film being screened 2/24/22: Artist: UuDam Tran Nguyen Name of Film: Serpents’ Tails (2015) Duration of Film: 15 minutes Film Summary: A short documentary of the acclaimed performance Rồng Rắn Lên (Serpents' Tails), an immersive installation of motorbikes whose exhaust systems seem to inflate, feed, and give flight to tubular “serpents”. In Nguyen’s metaphor, humanity wrestles with the by-products of its industry, which continue to wreak environmental imbalance and destruction. The screening series will be taking place every Thursday through March: 3/3/22: Tuấn Andrew Nguyễn, My Ailing Beliefs Can Cure Your Wretched Desires (2107), 19 minutes3/10/22: Khvay Samnang, Popil (2018), 22 minutes 3/17/22: Nguyễn Trinh Thi, Letters from Panduranga (2015), 35 minuteThis series is guest curated by Brianne Cohen, Assistant Professor of Contemporary Art History, University of Colorado Boulder. Cohen researches and teaches courses on art concerned with public sphere formation, decolonization, political violence, and ecology and environmentalism. She co-edited the volume, The Phot filmic: Entangled Images in Contemporary Art and Visual Culture (Cornell University Press, 2016), and her book Preventive Publics: Contemporary Art and Nonviolence in 21st-Century Europe (forthcoming with Duke University Press in spring 2023) examines contemporary art that grapples with cross-cultural affiliation and the active imagining of nonviolence in 21st-century Europe. Her new research addresses questions of ecological devastation and the formation of critical publics in Southeast Asia, particularly in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Singapore. https://eastwindow.org/