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Việt Lê is an artist, writer, and curator whose work centers on spiritualities, healing, and sexualities with a focus on Southeast Asia and its diasporas; they are the author of Return Engagements: Contemporary Art's Traumas of Modernity and History in Sài Gòn and Phnom Penh (Duke UP 2021) and White Gaze with Latipa (Sming Sming Books, 2019).

Tiffany Chung (Vietnam/USA) is noted for her cartographic drawings, sculptures, videos, photographs, and theater performances that examine conflict, migration, displacement, urban progress and transformation in relation to history and cultural memory; she recently presented a major solo exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Tiffany Chung: Vietnam, Past Is Prologue.