Film screening of a contemporary Southeast Asian Artist: Tuấn Andrew Nguyễn

2205 Broadway,Boulder CO 80302

03 March, 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 3/3/22: Artist: Tuấn Andrew Nguyễn Name of Film: My Ailing Beliefs Can Cure Your Wretched Desires Duration of Film: 19 minutes Film Summary: In this film Vietnamese-American artist Tuấn Andrew Nguyễn studies the relationship between humankind and animals, endangered and extinct species, and their symbolic and historic meanings. These investigations are specific to Vietnam’s current state of development, but the broad relationships mirror the global crisis of animal extinction. The screening series will be taking place every Thursday through March: 3/10/22: 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/