What drives you to wake up in the morning & what keeps you up at night? <\/strong> Trained as an ethnographer, much of my art and research involves collaboration. I worked with many fantastic artists in H\u00e0 N\u1ed9i, including Jamie Maxtone-Graham, my director of photography, as well as conceptual artists Nguy\u1ec5n Ph\u01b0\u01a1ng Linh, Tu\u00e2n Mami, Nguy\u1ec5n Qu\u1ed1c Th\u00e0nh. The dancer is Duy Thanh and you may recognize Phong (the trans M to F protagonist) from the film Finding Phong<\/a>. To read full Sum of Parts article, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n To read more about\u00a0Vi\u1ec7t, click here<\/a> and here<\/a>.Sneakers Store<\/a> | Entrainement Nike<\/a><\/span>
\nI believe we are in a crisis. I don\u2019t believe in the anxious language of refugee \u201ccrisis,\u201d although we are globally experiencing mass migrations in the shadow of capital and wars. \u00a0In this age of Brexit, xenophobia, gun violence<\/a>, self-interest and selfies, we are in the depths of a sociopolitical, environmental and spiritual crisis. What wakes me up and keeps me up is the crisis of meaning: how do we facilitate and create meaningful, productive exchanges with our limited world views?<\/strong><\/em> \u00a0And how do we get ourselves and others to expand the limits of our individual and collective vision?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\neclipse <\/em>is about longing and loss\u2014losing a loved one or a country (as I did, as a refugee) and desperately wanting it back, with no recourse. \u00a0It is indicative of our current moment, wanting to \u201cmake America great again\u201d: we\u2019ve fallen from grace, lost our garden of Eden, there is no way back. On the other hand, it can be about spirituality\u2014wanting to give up everything as a path towards enlightenment, towards ego-lessness\u2014and its blind struggle.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n