Unless otherwise noted, all programs take place on Thursdays at 5:10 pm at the historic Michigan Theater, located at 603 E. Liberty Street in downtown Ann Arbor, and are free of charge and open to the public.
November 13, 2008
Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba
Memorial Projects
Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba's films explore Vietnamese history and national identity. Born in Tokyo and trained in the U.S., Nguyen-Hatsushiba returned to live in his father's homeland of Vietnam in 1990. His video work, Memorial Project Nha Trang, Vietnam: Towards the Complex—For the Courageous, the Curious, and the Cowards, replaces visions of conflict with far more subversive and magical images of Vietnam, offering scenes of Vietnamese fishermen pulling cyclos (rickshaws) underwater toward an area where the artist stretched about thirty mosquito nets across the sea bed. For Nguyen-Hatsushiba "The meaning of 'memorial' in these works refers not only to recalling and acknowledging the past, but it is also something that brings us to the present and urges us to question for the future." During his presentation he will discuss his creative paths returning to Vietnam and his ongoing series of memorial projects.
Sponsored by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies.
Selected Bibliography
- Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba (Artist) in New York, NY (New York) from Re-title.com..
- Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba, Manchester Art Gallery | Art and design | The Guardian.
- Lehmann Maupin - Artists - Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba.
- Manchester City Galleries - Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba.
- Williams College Museum of Art Presents Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba: Memorial Project Vietnam June 12–Sept - / iBerkshires.com - The Berkshires online guide to events, news and Berkshire County community information.
- Artes, Mundi. 2004. Artes Mundi: Wales International Visual Art Prize 2004 = Gwobr Gelf Weledol Ryngwladol Cymru 2004. Bridgend: Artes Mundi. Art Architecture & Engineering Library - Basement | N 396 .G7 A784 2004
- Natale, Michele. 2006. Nine stories. The Independent Weekly, August 16.
- Raymond, Jonathan. 2005. JUN NGUYEN-HATSUSHIBA. Artforum 43, no. 8 (April): 191.
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