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The History Of The Future

2011

This 3-part project consists of a unique science-fiction phaser rifle intricately carved in a tradition that dates back to the 16th century in Southeast Asia. It is then hidden from human civilization somewhere in the world only to be revealed 100 years later.

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Television Commercial for Communism

2011

Imagine for a brief moment, that the world’s last five remaining communist countries decided to unite forces and hire the world’s top advertising agencies to re-brand and create a resurgence in the ideologies of Communism? Television Commercial for Communism [TVCC] embarks to re-position our relationship to current global economics and socio-politics by getting the world’s leading advertising companies to pitch their most radical ideas to re-brand Communism.

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Estranged Fruit

2011

A study in the application of political history and socio-political meaning through the introduction of one of America’s most famous protest song, Strange Fruit, into China’s growing rock scene, via Chinese punk rock & industrial metal band, VooDooKungFu.

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Viet Nam The World Tour

2010

This rogue nation-rebranding campaign appropriates marketing language, graffiti strategies, and viral video platforms to re-associate a historically colonized and mediated national identity with an entirely new mediated history.

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FADE IN: EXT. STORAGE – CU CHI – DAY

2010

This short film, made in collaboration with Superflex, is a re-enactment based on actual events that occurred at the Ho Chi Minh customs department in regards to a shipment of movie props produced in Viet Nam for a television drama set in Viet Nam, sent to The Netherlands and back again. The title of the film is the entire script.

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Temporary Public Gallery

2010

This public intervention sets out to complicate, and possibly poeticize, matters concerning public space, public art, privatized commercial space and the politics/censorship behind the regulation of these spaces by renting a billboard in Ho Chi Minh City in order to curate non-commercial images in public space.

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Uh…

2007

This near life-size video projection that features the monicker, “Uh…” written as a graffiti tag on various public walls throughout Ho Chi Minh City. As traffic whizzes along the streets and pedestrians stroll past Uh’s work, we realize that the tag isn’t part of the physical landscape at all.

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The Farmers and the Helicopters

2006

is a synchronized 3-channel video installation produced in collaboration with Dinh Q. Le that explores the icon of the helicopter and its relationship to Vietnamese farmers and their memories of U.S. militarism during the 1960′s and 1970′s.

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Spray It Don’t Say It

2006

This ongoing documentary project follows the evolution of graffiti in Viet Nam, beginning with the very first generation of graffiti artists who discovered and started to apply American style graffiti 2005.

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  • The History Of The Future
  • Television Commercial for Communism
  • Estranged Fruit
  • Viet Nam The World Tour
  • Fade In: Ext. Storage Cu Chi DAY...
  • Temporary Public Gallery
  • Uh…
  • The Farmers and the Helicopters
  • SPRAY IT DONT
    SAY IT