memory vs. memory
BIOS
PERFORMANCE AND INSTALLATION ARTISTS
ly hoang ly
LY HOANG LY is a visual artist, poet, and editor, born in HA NOI and based in SAI GON (HCMC), VIETNAM. she received her MFA from THE SCHOOL of the ART INSTITUTE of CHICAGO in 2013 with a FULBRIGHT FELLOWSHIP and a DEAN GRANT, and received her BFA from THE HO CHI MINH CITY FINE-ARTS UNIVERSITY in 1999. since 2000, LY has been exploring interdisciplinary arts including installation, video art, performance art and poetry performance. she is the first female visual artist in VIETNAM to do performance art and poetry performance.
awarded several grants, she has been working as an artist in residence several times in the USA as well as KOREA, THAILAND. since 1994, her installations and performances have been presented in various exhibitions and festivals in VIETNAM, and in other ASIAN countries like KOREA, JAPAN, HONGKONG, MACAU and THAILAND, as well as in the USA, GERMANY and FRANCE.
LY’S work explores the cycle of life and death, human introversion and extroversion conflicts, and tradition versus modernity. she has also had a long-held fascination with the dislocation of language and the conceptual space opened up within interpretation.
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Patricia nguyen
PATRICIA NGUYEN was born and raised in CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. her current work explores the dialectic between modernity and dispossession as it relates to notions of freedom and home. she has performed at the NHA SAN COLLECTIVE in VIETNAM, the MISSION CULTURAL CENTER in SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, OBERLIN COLLEGE, NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY, and UNIVERSITY of MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON. having studied intensively in the U.S., BRAZIL, and MEXICO, working directly with local artists and community members on performance art, theatre, and visual arts, her work engages these sites as places of rupture and possibilities in the interplay of neoliberal development. she is currently a Ph.D. student in performance studies at NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY.
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TECHNICAL DIRECTOR & VIDEOGRAPHER/PHOTOGRAPHER
GRAPHIC DESIGNER & VIDEOGRAPHER/PHOTOGRAPHER
GIAU MINH TRUONG
JOHN LEE
Giau Minh Truong is a company member of A-Squared Theatre Workshop for which he directed Ching Chong Chinaman, The Other Shore and various shorts that appeared in My Asian Mom, A-Squared’s signature show of ten-minute plays that enjoyed runs in 2012, 2013, and 2014. Giau’s other directorial credits include Downward Facing, Lights Out, Everybody, and Theatre of Women for Dream Theatre Company. He directed Sister Outlaw, Mr and Mrs LaQuesta Go Dancing, My Name is Flor Contemplacion, and I Dream Electric for CIRCA-Pintig, Chicago’s long-running Filipino American theatre company for which he served as artistic director from 2007 through 2012. Giau has also directed plays for James Downing Theatre Company and Theatre for a Change. He serves as a teaching artist and program manager for Storycatchers and stage manages with Chamber Opera Chicago and various other companies.
John Lee engages with architecture as a cultural practice that disseminates dialogue and narrative within the intersection of research and visual communication.
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