Screening & Conversation: Tuan Andrew Nguyen, Michelle Dizon, Cesar Garcia
Screening & Conversation | March 31, 2018, 11:30am-1pm
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After a special screening of Tuan Andrew Nguyen’s The Island, TMR Executive and Artistic Director Cesar Garcia moderates a conversation between artists Tuan Andrew Nguyen and artist Michelle Dizon.
About the Screening & Conversation.
After special screening of Tuan Andrew Nguyen’s The Island, TMR Executive and Artistic Director Cesar Garcia will moderate a conversation between Nguyen and Michelle Dizon about the role that filmmaking has in creating visual counter-narratives of migration and displacement.
About the Participants.
Tuan Andrew Nguyen (b. 1976, Vietnam) graduated from the Fine Arts program at UC Irvine in 1999 and received his MFA from CalArts in 2004. He is a co-founder of Sàn Art, an artist-initiated exhibition space and educational program in Sai Gon, Viet Nam. Nguyen has shown in numerous film festivals, internationl exhibitions, having works in the collection of the Queensland Art Gallery, Carre d'Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Soloman R. Guggenheim Museum. Nguyen has received several awards in both film and arts, including an Art Matters grant in 2010. His work explores the body as sites and and as moments of resistance in public space and the impact of mass media on these moments of resistance. In his continual attempts at reworking the power dynamics of public space and mass media in general, he founded The Propeller Group in 2006, an art collective who positions themselves between a fake advertising company and archeologists of hidden historical conundrums. Accolades for the collective include the main prize at the 2015 Internationale Kurztfilmtage Wintherthur and a Creative Capital award for their video project Television Commercial for Communism. The collective has been featured in numerous international exhibitions including the Venice Biennale (2015); Prospect3, New Orleans (2014); Made in LA 2012, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2012); and The Ungovernables, New Museum (2012).
Michelle Dizon (b. 1970, US) is an artist, filmmaker, writer, and Associate Professor of Media and Cultural Studies in the Department of Media and Cultural Studies at UC Riverside. She earned an MFA in Art from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a Ph.D. in Rhetoric from the University of California, Berkeley. Her work has been shown at venues such as Caixaforum, Barcelona, Spain; Jeu de Paume, Paris; The Cooper Union, New York; Vargas Museum, Manila; Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong; Gothenburg International Biennial for Contemporary Art, Gothenburg, Sweden; and the Singapore Biennial. In 2015, Dizon founded at land's edge, a pedagogical platform based in South and East Los Angeles to build and nurture community. Dizon has received grants and fellowships from the Art Matters, the Fulbright Foundation, and the Department of Cultural Affairs for the City of Los Angeles, among others.
Cesar Garcia is TMR’s Executive and Artistic Director.
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Screening & Conversation: Tuan Andrew Nguyen, Michelle Dizon, Cesar Garcia is organized by TMR and presented in conjunction with Tuan Andrew Nguyen: The Island.
TMR's program is made possible with the support of its Board of Directors, Big Mistake Patron Group, International Council, and Contemporary Council.
Special thanks to Colección Diéresis, Guadalajara, and Páramo, Guadalajara, Mexico City, New York.
Photo Credit: The Mistake Room. Copyright 2018. The Mistake Room Inc.