This performance is created and performed by: Van Khanh and Quin Quynh Luong.
Van Khanh (b.2000) is a Vietnamese multidisciplinary artist based in New York City. They graduated from Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, MA. Working mainly with printed matter, textiles, and sculptures, Van digitizes everyday Vietnamese household objects, transforms these forms within cyberspace by distorting and reframing, and then encodes them with new visual logic. These digital interventions are then retranslated into tactile forms using processes such as weaving, printing, and sewing. Through their practice, Van aims to create faux-fibre replicas existing at the intersection of physical reality and digital dreamscape and reimagine cultural tradition through the lens of trans narratives.
Quynh Luong (b. 2000) is a Vietnamese visual artist, writer, and cultural researcher based in New York City. Having graduated with a dual degree from Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, MA, Luong is currently a graduate student at the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and a research fellow at the Narrative Intelligence Lab at Columbia University. Luong’s art practice spans across drawing, painting, bookmaking, sculpture, installation, and is a visual reflection of their scholarly interests in Japanese popular media and culture. Particularly, through intermedial experimentations, Luong’s work speaks to issues of anime and manga’s image politics, their material-technological apparatus and affective affordances, their utopian potential in engendering the imagination of alternative subjectivities and communities, as well as the larger infrastructures in which these media objects are embedded and circulated.
