The Island Gallery Talk
- Cost
- SOLD OUT
Free | Registration required - Event Location
- Meet in G Street Lobby
- Co-sponsor
- The Vietnam Society
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- Building
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
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Join SAAM’s Time-Based Media Curator Saisha Grayson for a special, before public hours tour of Tuan Andrew Nguyen’s single-channel color video The Island (2017). Nguyen’s video, set on the Malaysian island of Pulau Bidong, combines history with futurism to explore contemporary topics such as the impact of forced global migrations in imaginative and striking ways. This screening of the forty-two-minute video includes Vietnamese translation. Post-screening, Grayson will lead a discussion about the installation. This program is presented in partnership with Vietnam Society, as part of Vietnam Week 2024.
Image credit: Tuan Andrew Nguyen, The Island, 2017, single-channel video, color, 5.1 surround sound; 42:00 minutes, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Asian Pacific American Initiative Pool, administered by the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, 2022.51
Join SAAM’s Time-Based Media Curator Saisha Grayson for a special, before public hours tour of Tuan Andrew Nguyen’s single-channel color video The Island (2017). Nguyen’s video, set on the Malaysian island of Pulau Bidong, combines history with futurism to explore contemporary topics such as the impact of forced global migrations in imaginative and striking ways. This screening of the forty-two-minute video includes Vietnamese translation. Post-screening, Grayson will lead a discussion about the installation. This program is presented in partnership with Vietnam Society, as part of Vietnam Week 2024.
Image credit: Tuan Andrew Nguyen, The Island, 2017, single-channel video, color, 5.1 surround sound; 42:00 minutes, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Asian Pacific American Initiative Pool, administered by the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, 2022.51
Exhibitions
August 16, 2024–May 4, 2025
This exhibition of the Tuan Andrew Nguyen's film, The Island, is shown for the first time with Bidong Spirit I, a sculpted headdress that appears in the film.