EventsThe New Social Environment#880

Tuan Andrew Nguyen: Radiant Remembrance

Featuring Nguyen and Tao Leigh Goffe, with Sarah Wang

Monday, August 21, 2023 11 a.m. Eastern / 8 a.m. Pacific

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Artist Tuan Andrew Nguyen joins scholar and writer Tao Leigh Goffe for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading by Sarah Wang.

Tuan Andrew Nguyen

A photo of Tuan Andrew Nguyen on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment
Courtesy the artist and James Cohan, New York. Photo by Harry Vu.
Tuan Andrew Nguyen (b. 1976, Saigon, Vietnam; he/him) is an artist whose work utilizes strategies of remembrance to highlight unofficial and suppressed histories. Interweaving the factual and the speculative and often employing mythologies of otherworldly realms, Nguyen’s films re-work dominant narratives into stories that propose creative forms of healing the intergenerational traumas of colonialism, war, and displacement. Through his interest in animism and material memory, the affective and historical charge embedded into objects, Nguyen’s installations and sculptural practice coincide with and expand on the themes explored in his films.

Tao Leigh Goffe

A photo of Tao Leigh Goffe on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment

Tao Leigh Goffe, PhD, is a London-born, Black British award-winning writer, professor, and interdisciplinary sound artist who grew up between the UK and New York. She studied literature at Princeton University before pursuing a PhD at Yale University, which led her to explore global Black and Asian intellectual histories, political, and ecological life. Her work has appeared in New York Magazine, Artsy, and Boston Review. Tao is writing a book called Black Capital, Chinese Debt (Duke University Press, forthcoming) exploring a long Afro-Asian history of affective and financial indebtedness after the abolition of racial slavery from 1806 to the present. She lives and works in Manhattan where she is a member of NEW INC. She is the Executive Director of the Afro-Asia Group.

The Rail has a tradition of ending our conversations with a poetry reading, and we're fortunate to have Dao Strom reading.

Dao Strom

A photo of Dao Strom on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment
Artist Dao Strom works with three “voices”—written, sung, visual—to explore hybridity and the intersection of personal and collective histories. She is the author of Instrument (Fonograf Editions, 2020) and its musical companion Traveler’s Ode (Antiquated Future Records, 2020); a bilingual poetry-art book, You Will Always Be Someone From Somewhere Else (AJAR Press); a memoir, We Were Meant To Be a Gentle People, and song cycle, East/West; and two books of fiction, The Gentle Order of Girls and Boys and Grass Roof, Tin Roof. Born in Vietnam, Strom grew up in the Sierra Nevada foothills of California and lives in Portland, Oregon. She is co-founder of two collective art projects, She Who Has No Master(s), and De-Canon.

We’d like to thank The Marion Boulton Kippy Stroud Foundation and Teiger Foundation for making these conversations possible, and for their support of our growing archive 🌈✨

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