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Trinh T. Minh-ha: Tuesday, March 25, 6:00–7:30 p.m.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Fullerton Hall, 111 S. Michigan Ave.
This event will be live captioned by Communication Access Realtime Translation services.
Join us for a lecture by artist Trinh T. Minh-ha followed by an audience Q&A.
Wednesday, March 26, 6:00-9:00 p.m.
Trinh T. Minh-ha: What About China?
Screening followed by a conversation with the artist
Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N. State St.
Tickets are free for SAIC students, $5 for SAIC/AIC faculty and staff, and $13 for the general public. More information at saic.edu/cate.
Tuesday, May 6, 6:00 p.m.
Forgetting Vietnam
Gene Siskel Film Center
Trinh T. Minh-ha is a world-renowned filmmaker, writer, composer, and a Distinguished Professor of the Graduate School at the University of California, Berkeley. Her work includes nine feature-length films: What About China? (2021); Forgetting Vietnam (2016); Night Passage (2004); The Fourth Dimension (2001); A Tale of Love (1996); Shoot for the Contents (1991); Surname Viet Given Name Nam (1989); Naked Spaces (1985); and Reassemblage (1982). Her work has been honored in 69 retrospectives around the world and several large-scale multimedia installations include In Transit (Manifesta 13, Marseille, 2020); L’Autre marche (Musée du Quai Branly, Paris 2006–2009); Old Land New Waters (3rd Guangzhou Triennial, China 2008, Okinawa Museum of Fine Arts 2007); and The Desert is Watching (Kyoto Biennial, 2003). Numerous publications include Lovecidal: Walking with The Disappeared (2016); D-Passage: The Digital Way (2013); Elsewhere, Within Here (2011), Cinema Interval (1999); and Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism (1989).
Her many awards include the 2014 Wild Dreamer Lifetime Achievement Award at the Subversive Film Festival, Zagreb; the 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award from Women's Caucus for Art; the 2012 Critics Choice Book Award of the American Educational Studies Association; the 2006 Trailblazers Award at MIPDoc in Cannes, France; and the 1991 AFI National Independent Filmmaker Maya Deren Award.
Her latest film, What About China?, has received the 2022 New:Vision Award at CPH:DOX Film Festival in Copenhagen; The 2022 Golden Gate Persistence of Vision Award at the San Francisco International Film Festival; the Prix Bartók at the 2022 Jean Rouch Film Festival; the Inspiration Award at Viet Film Fest; a Special Commendation at the BFI London Film Festival; and the Presidential Award at the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland Film Festival.
Co-presented by SAIC’s Visiting Artists Program and Conversations at the Edge; additional support provided by the Penny Stamps Speaker Series at the University of Michigan
Trinh T. Minh-ha. Courtesy of the artist
CATE's What About China? Resources
For resources related to Trinh T. Minh-ha’s film What About China?, please refer to the Conversations at the Edge Resource Guide.
How Trinh T. Minh-ha’s Game-Changing Films Thwart Binary Thinking
Tausif Noor | Art in America | September 13, 2023
Trinh T. Minh-ha's The Twofold Commitment
Re'al Christian | The Brooklyn Rail | September 2023
Trinh T. Minh-ha’s The Twofold Commitment
Patrick J. Reed | e-flux | June 8, 2023
ARTIST IN FOCUS: Trinh T. Minh-ha
Admin | Diagonal Thoughts | March 8, 2023
From the publication Trinh T. Minh-ha: Traveling in the Dark: Phantom Images on the Move*
Trinh T. Minh-ha | Mousse Magazine | February 15, 2023
Trinh T. Minh-ha by Shivani Radhakrishnan
Shivani Radhakrishnan | Bomb Magazine | July 18, 2022
In the spiral of time: conversation between Domi Olivieri and Trinh T. Minh-ha*
Domitilla Olivieri and Trinh T. Minh-Ha | Transnational Screens, vol. 13 (2) | p. 176–188 | July 18, 2022
*This is a library resource that requires ARTIC login
Filmmaker Trinh T. Minh-ha on the beauty of receiving the world
Anne Brice | UC Berkeley News | May 31, 2022
The Enduring Power of Trinh T. Minh-ha’s Anti-Ethnography
Patrick J. Reed | ArtReview | October 19, 2020
Trinh T. Minh-ha and Ute Meta Bauer in Conversation on What about China?
Trinh T. Minh-ha and Ute Meta Bauer | Moving Worlds | October 17, 2020
Forgetting Vietnam*
Domitilla Olivieri | Visual Anthropology, vol. 33 | p. 181 - 183 | March 24, 2020
*This is a library resource that requires ARTIC login
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Visiting Artists Program Lecture Recordings from the Archive
SAIC Visiting Artists Program video and audio lecture recordings (1977–present.) Available with SAIC login credentials.
SAIC Digital Collections: Visiting Artists Program
SAIC Visiting Artists Program publicity archive and audio recordings (1977–98).
