Reminder: film: my gaze///yr gaze * 'chains of love / ties that bli... @ Sun Sep 21, 2014 7pm - 9pm (Queer Things)

more details » film: my gaze///yr gaze * 'chains of love / ties that blind' in Oakland my gaze///yr gaze * 'chains of love / ties that blind' my gaze///yr gaze is a queer film series at n/a gallery. n/a, 4304 West St, Oakland, California 94608 https://www.facebook.com/events/576521939126779/ n/a is excited for the ninth screening in our queer film program. việt lê presents 'chains of love / ties that blind', a series of short films from cambodia, việt nam, thailand, usa, and more. my gaze///yr gaze is curated by irwin swirnoff. special guest *pioneering, preeminent performance artist and poet ly hoang ly* will be flying from sài gòn to share her work (and q+a!) ...... "tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us." –richard siken this selection of video shorts ruminate on love and loss in the shadows of empire in modern-day asia, post-world war ii america, and colonial french indochina. these experimental video artists challenge binaries between local and diasporic, east and west. they queer the divides between periphery and center; past, present and future. working in the interstices of cambodia, việt nam, japan, thailand, and the united states, the artists offer alternate visions of living on the ruins of modernity's edge. my asian americana by studio revolt (anida yoeu ali + masahiro sugano) (2011 | 3:00) return to sender by studio revolt (2012 | 8:00) capsized by erin o'brien (2008 | 3:33) fan christy (cover) [karaoke mv] by jai arun ravine (2011 | 5:00) looking for jiro by tina takemoto (2011 | 5:45) explosions in the sky (dien bien phu 1954) by hong-an truong (2010 | 3:32) + special screening of performances & discussion with ly hoang ly .......... việt lê is an artist, writer, and curator. lê has been published in positions: asia critique; crab orchard review; american quarterly; amerasia journal; art journal; newsweek asia; and the anthologies writing from the perfume river; strange cargo; the spaces between us; modern and contemporary southeast asian art; among others. lê's work has been featured at the banff centre, alberta, canada; ucla hammer museum, los angeles, usa; dobaebacsa gallery, seoul, korea; japan foundation, việt nam; 1a space, hong kong; bangkok art & cultural center (bacc), thailand; civitella ranieri, italy; shanghai biennale, china; among other venues. he was a nominated finalist for the 2009 sovereign art foundation art prize (hong kong). lê has received fellowships from fulbright-hays (việt nam), william joiner center, civitella ranieri foundation (italy), fine arts work center (usa), center for khmer studies (cambodia), art matters foundation, international institute for asian studies (the netherlands), and pen center usa. lê curated miss saigon with the wind (highways, santa monica, 2005) and charlie don't surf!(centre a, vancouver, bc, 2005); and co-curated humor us (los angeles municipal art gallery, la, ca, 2008), transpop: korea việt nam remix (seoul, sài gòn, irvine, san francisco, 2008-09) and the 2012 kuandu biennale (taipei). he has co-edited special issues of bol journal (việt nam and us, 2008) and reflections: a journal of writing, service learning, and community literacy (syracuse university press, 2008). he is a reviews co-editor (with laura kina) of asian diasporic visual cultures and the americas (brill). lê is a board member of dvan (diasporic vietnamese artists network). lê received his m.f.a. from the university of california, irvine, where he has also taught studio art and visual culture courses. he received his m.a. and ph.d. from the university of southern california and was as a postdoctoral fellow at academia sinica, taipei. lê is an assistant professor in the visual studies program, visual & critical studies graduate program at california college of the arts. his writing has been translated into chinese, german, khmer and vietnamese. / ly hoang ly is a visual artist, poet, and editor. born in hà nội and based in sài gòn, việt nam, 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 hồ chí minh 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 việt nam —and perhaps the most well-known—to do performance art and poetry performance. / irwin swirnoff (b. pheonix 1977, lives in the bay area) received his mfa from the san francisco art institute, and teaches in the cinematic arts department at cal state university monterey bay. using film, photography, creative writing, and his background in zine & d.i.y. culture, he creates intimate work with a queer sensibility, exploring intimacy, longing, loss, desire, physicality, sexuality, and the constant struggle to remain in the here and now. a longtime dj, he's hosted the popular radio show, sleeves on hearts and served as the music director of kusf 90.3fm, in san francisco. irwin's work has been shown throughout the united states and europe at festivals like outfest, the new york film fest, frameline, seattle queer film festival, toronto inside out, etcetera, and he's been featured in the new york times, sf weekly, maximum rock n roll, punk planet, and the bold italic. 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