Static Friction
2012
‘Static Friction’ is a curatorial project that includes sculpture, drawing, video, and mixed media collages revolving around motorbike culture, and takes as its point of departure the ubiquitous motorbike as it is experienced in Vietnam – as an icon of social and economic mobility; a vehicle for individual identity amid social collectivity; a machine for a lawless subculture obsessed with speed and violence; and as a classic symbol of an historical era.
Static Friction: Burning Rubber
2012
In this work, a series of performances were setup around Ho Chi Minh City, where an anonymous motorbike rider, dressed all in black maneuvers his moped into centers of traffic and begins to perform burnouts. The loud sounds of the engine, the screeching of the tires, the smoke, the struggle between rider and moped to maintain power and stability, are documented through various camera angles via video and photography.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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Static Friction -
Static Friction: Burning Rubber -
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
