A READING BY WRITER AND POET, lê thi diem thúy at Sàn Art Independent Art Space, Saigon. Please join us on Saturday 15 May at 5pm, for a solo performance by celebrated writer and solo performance artist, lê thi diem thúy
lê will open with a short, informal excerpt of her first solo performance "Mua He Do Lua/Red Fiery Summer." She will then read from the title chapter of her award-winning debut novel "The Gangster We Are All Looking For." Subsequent discussion will be facilitated by guest artist/curator Viet Lê.
Discussion will be held in Vietnamese and English. Translation of title chapter of novel will be provided for people to read in Vietnamese.
FREE EVENT
Saturday 15 May at Sàn Art from 5pm
3 Me Linh, Binh Thanh District, HCMC
www.san-art.org
For further information, please contact Sàn Art: art@san-art.org | PHONE +84 83 8400 898. This event is co-sponsored by the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN). lê thi diem thúy was born in Phan Thiet, Southern Vietnam. She and her father left Vietnam in 1978, by boat, eventually settling in Southern California. lê currently resides in Western Massachusetts. lê thi diem thúy was born in 1972, a year that is remembered in its totality as “the red fiery summer”, a time of fierce attacks from the north that resulted in fires that scorched the countryside.
lê is a writer and solo performance artist and her works, “Red Fiery Summer” (Mua He Do Lua), and “The bodies between us” have been presented at, among other venues, the Whitney Museum of American Art, USA; the International Women Playwright’s Festival in Galway, Ireland, and the Vineyard Theater in New York City. Her prose and poetry have appeared in The Massachusetts Review, Harper's Magazine, Muae and The Best American Essays as well as in the anthologies Killing the Buddha: A Heretic’s Bible, The Very Inside, Half & Half, and Watermark.
She has been awarded residencies from the Headlands Center For The Arts, the GAEA Foundation, and the Lannan Foundation and is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Radcliffe Institute For Advanced Study. A 2008 United States Artists Ford Fellow in Literature, she is currently at work on her second novel.
Viet Lê is an independent curator and artist. Lê is a Senior Research Fellow, Center for Khmer Studies; Ph.D. candidate, University of Southern California. He is currently based in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
lê will open with a short, informal excerpt of her first solo performance "Mua He Do Lua/Red Fiery Summer." She will then read from the title chapter of her award-winning debut novel "The Gangster We Are All Looking For." Subsequent discussion will be facilitated by guest artist/curator Viet Lê.
Discussion will be held in Vietnamese and English. Translation of title chapter of novel will be provided for people to read in Vietnamese.
FREE EVENT
Saturday 15 May at Sàn Art from 5pm
3 Me Linh, Binh Thanh District, HCMC
www.san-art.org
For further information, please contact Sàn Art: art@san-art.org | PHONE +84 83 8400 898. This event is co-sponsored by the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN). lê thi diem thúy was born in Phan Thiet, Southern Vietnam. She and her father left Vietnam in 1978, by boat, eventually settling in Southern California. lê currently resides in Western Massachusetts. lê thi diem thúy was born in 1972, a year that is remembered in its totality as “the red fiery summer”, a time of fierce attacks from the north that resulted in fires that scorched the countryside.
lê is a writer and solo performance artist and her works, “Red Fiery Summer” (Mua He Do Lua), and “The bodies between us” have been presented at, among other venues, the Whitney Museum of American Art, USA; the International Women Playwright’s Festival in Galway, Ireland, and the Vineyard Theater in New York City. Her prose and poetry have appeared in The Massachusetts Review, Harper's Magazine, Muae and The Best American Essays as well as in the anthologies Killing the Buddha: A Heretic’s Bible, The Very Inside, Half & Half, and Watermark.
She has been awarded residencies from the Headlands Center For The Arts, the GAEA Foundation, and the Lannan Foundation and is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Radcliffe Institute For Advanced Study. A 2008 United States Artists Ford Fellow in Literature, she is currently at work on her second novel.
Viet Lê is an independent curator and artist. Lê is a Senior Research Fellow, Center for Khmer Studies; Ph.D. candidate, University of Southern California. He is currently based in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
