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(So many hands) The last part of Vườn Lài Xứ Sở Diệu Kỳ project was called LờVờLờZờ4ẾVờ, it was a week long workshops of making collage and cooking, film screenings and discussions, and immersing ourselves in nets of images, words, slangs, sounds, objects, and even food of queerness. The event took place during a queer month in Ba Bau AIR, alongside A Queer Museum by Nhung Dinh, and cailongiday the Healing Service by Thao, and various Ba Bau AIR activities.

“Cái này”, an unnamed publication, a mystical co–presence of words and images (I might quote someone but I can’t remember who) on queer films in Vietnam was also made, printed, presented, read and brought. Thank you!

It is still on sale:) Around 30 other copies are being remade, altered and hand pieced together as artists books for fund raising. More information soon!

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NONFLIX – LIMITED AND LESS…ASIA

(and overnight)

Queer Forever co-organized this screening program, which was initiated and programmed by NON Berlin, and in collaboration with Ba Bau AIR in Hà nội and Sàn Art in Sài Gòn. In Hanoi we managed to make overnight screenings, with just a small bottle of gold leaf plum wine (and lot of food, so chill).

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152, Skylines with Flying People 4, Nhà Sàn Collective, Hanoi, 2020

These photo present part of my work in the exhibition curated by Phụ Lục Group, which was located undercover in a warehouse in the outskirt of Hanoi. The other part are writings stored at the project's office, and recordings of conversations with regard to the project (152 refers to the minimum duration of 1 hour and 52 minutes of talking) available in the google drive at http://bit.ly/152swfp4

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Tăng xông / Tension, performance in Nổ Cái Bùm, Huế, 2020

Participatory and local sauna ;)

Vườn Lài Xứ Sở Diệu Kỳ - Vườn Lài (Jasmine Garden) Wonderland (Queer Forever, 2019 - 2021)

It's the latest Queer Forever’s project that I curated. It takes the name Vườn Lài of an old cinema in Sài Gòn which once was turned by queer folks into a cruising place. They totally owned it. In my project, it becomes a pop up cinema, a series of workshops, cooking, seasonal food, late night discussions, an unnamed publication “cái này", and countless collaborations with lgbtq+ folks and artists in Hà nội (Quán Cầm, Ba Bau AIR), Huế (M Ơ Đ Ơ) and Sài Gòn (Sàn Art), to engage with queer films.

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My first time in The Philippines. In 2018, I was participating in The Solidarity in PErformAnCE Festival in Manila, which took place in few universities both public and private, in several locations across the Metro Manila and Angeles City. We mostly made performance in public spaces, although they are well protected. I decided to do works with audience’s participation in places often subjected to surveillance and social control, such as at an entry gate at a private university (Holy Angel University in Angeles City), and inside male restroom in a female only college (Miriam College, Quenzon City).

Photos: Chomp Phuttha

Encounters: Reflections into the Spaces Surrounding Families Living with Autism

20.01 - 28.01.2018, Hà nội

Artists: Trịnh Mai Chi, PQN, Quỳnh, Lê Anh Dũng, Dương Thuỳ Ly, and Trâm Curator: Nguyễn Quốc Thành

In 2018 I was invited by CCIHP to work with young artists and a research team. The exhibition was a part of a one-year participatory research on autism through visual arts. Among exhibition’s 6 participants 3 have older autistic brother or sister, the other 3 are young photographers. All artists are of young age (12-mid 20s) and have no or little experience in practicing art. The exhibition was accompanied by a program of seminars, art tours with curator and artists, artist talk, and workshops.

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It Would be very Peaceful to Stay in a Natural Green Place (2017, Rangoon, Myanmar)

I invited a Myanmar artist to make performance together in public toilet in a park in Rangoon. The title is a citation from "Walk of Life" - a book on queer culture in Myanmar that was co-edited by a Vietnamese queer activist, and also my friend Đinh Thị Nhung. I used perfume to write this sentence on mirrors, walls, doors, floor, while also reading it out loud. My Burmese partner also read texts from the same book but in Burmese.

This performance was part of a series of performances where I've been interested in (in)visibility, texts and voices, and audience participation/collaboration. In this series I abandon objects, but use "ephemeral", (in)visible materials such as perfumes, medical oil, water that don't leave visible but other signs, such as smell, feeling of heat/burn on skin. I also Include voices, in reading, singing also by people who collaborate. Textual materials mark another layer of perceptions through sounds, voice, but also translation, interpretation, especially when people of different cultures and using different languages participate in the performance.

The use of (in)visible materials is informed by my interests in queer aesthetics, in trying to make sense of things that are both not visible, hidden, not present, or marked unseen, and at the same time have "hypevisibility”.

In Zero Platform: International Performance Art Festival 2017, Rangoon, Myanmar.

photos: Beatrice Didier

Untitled (2017, performance, Hanoi, Vietnam)

“A bad performance” in an exhibition space. I did this week-long performance both alone and with other partners during the duration of artist Nguyen Phuong Linh’s exhibition “The Last Ride” of Nhà Sàn Collective’s “Skylines of Flying People 3” project in Hanoi in Jan. 2017. I was trying to “interact” with the audience by talking, asking, and by disturbing: blocking walking passage, forcing to repeat viewing, speaking loud, blocking view.

In “Skylines of Flying People 3”, 2017, Hanoi, Vietnam

photo: Nghiêm Quang Thái Dương

Untitled (2017, Hanoi, Vietnam)

A performance in exhibition space of artist Đinh Thị Nhung’s “Lip Xinh” exhibition in Nhà Sàn Collective, with three partners who read various texts included in the exhibition in random manner. Perfume was used for writing.

Video “Mùi biến hình" by Đỗ Văn Hoàng photo by Đặng Hồng Anh

in Queer Forever! 2017, Hanoi, Vietnam

Untitled (2017, performance, Hanoi, Vietnam)

I asked audience to write on my body using either water, eau de cologne and colorless medical oil. Then I started to examine what they wrote using my phone, while singing to a song that I asked an audience member to sing. I didn't know which song he would choose.

In IN:ACT - NIPAF 2017, Hanoi, Vietnam

lost pixels về đêm lại càng lost nhỉ :)

Ảnh/photo: Đức Bé

#lost pixel #mise en scene

my contribution for the first zine that i collaborated with 3 invited friends Gabby, Xen Nhà and Khanh last year. the idea was to invite friends to do anything, and then we’d put the works together in a random, whatever way. so every “issue” is sort of a collection of works presented in a “whatever” way. we the zinemakers are free to print them as we like, sell and keep the profits as we like.

i made images using scanner and images from my friend’s phone.

this “issue” was printed in A3 size. actually it was quite a failure because nobody seemed to be interested in the zine when it was “launched” in december last year. so I still don’t know how to call it, whatever zine, fffffffailure zine (the more f the less it will fail perhaps?), or as we like zine:)

i will put the zine in issuu soon.

i will start working on the second zine soon.

#zine #queer #gabby miller #khanh #xen nha #whatever #fffailure #as we like

Lost Pixels (2016, photographic installation, transparent decal on window glass, curtain)

Imagery from gay dating services, personal sex chats that were leaked to tumblr, gay military facebook fan club, and personal pictures are printed on transparent decal films and put on windows of Nha San Collective galley space. The bodies were digitally cut off to “reveal” the landscape of the city. A black, long curtain is hung parallel to the window; it forms a long, narrow space, and separates the audience from the rest of the gallery space.

In Mise-en-scence exhibition, Nha San Collective, curated by Lê Thuận Uyên and Bill Nguyễn, 2016, Hanoi, Vietnam

Without Words (2016, site specific installation, threads from used military clothes, cords)

With this work, I'd like to invite the audience to invade and rethink a familiar space: the public restroom. In the pre-Internet era in Vietnam, it was in this kind of space that a young person could see explicit images and text about sex for the first time. Public restrooms are popular “cruising areas” for men who seek sexual pleasures with other men even now, in digital age of dating apps. Space in public restrooms is designed to control (and self-control) what can be seen and not. Public restrooms has became problematic arena of gender conflicts, ones fight for gender recognition, while another for protection and safety.

As curtains are used to stop light and block view, they mark a fragile, easy to be removed border surrounding spaces of privacy, discretion, and of exposure. I made these curtains using knots that are used in BDSM bondage techniques. BDSM participants tie their bodies to prevent movement, cause pain, to get sexual pleasures for both themselves and their partners. But the lines between autonomy and dependency, danger and safety, pain and pleasure are difficult to determine, and remain solely private.

In “Into thin Air” - a public art project curated by Trâm Vũ and Bill Nguyễn of Manzi Art Space, 2016, Hanoi, Vietnam

your clothes became my clothes became your clothes 2013 (white t-shirts, hand embroidery, threads from used military underwear and socks)

embroideries of solders's names (hand written) tie eight white military t-shirts from the inside (back to front) together

queer forever exhibition, queer forever festival, 12/2013, hanoi

photos: Thủy Tiên

#your clothes became my clothes became your clothes #2013 #hanoi

your clothes became my clothes became your clothes 2013 (thread from old, used military uniforms, nails)

installation at queer forever exhibition, queer forever festival, hanoi, 12/2013

threads were running alongside electric cables in all the spaces in exhibition site at nha san collective, creating an almost invisible network, connecting all the spaces and re-constructing the whole site.

photos: Thủy Tiên

#your clothes became my clothes became your clothes #installation #2013 #hanoi

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