"Vomit Girl Beyond Diasporic Trauma: Interconnecting Contemporary Art a" by Mai Nguyen-Long
In 2008, my artwork Phở Dog was condemned by respected spokespersons in the Vietnamese diasporic community as ‘communist propaganda.’ As an Australian artist of Vietnamese descent, I learnt my father’s native tongue as a young adult during my time in the north of the country. Later I would be criticised for speaking with a ‘communist accent.’ These formative experiences became the departure point for Vomit Girl Beyond Diasporic Trauma, a practice-based research project that examines how acculturated intergenerational trauma gives rise to binary identities and fixed narratives that ...
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