Altered States of Being | Performance Meditations || Artist Talk with Patricia Nguyễn

Altered States of Being | Performance Meditations: Artist Talk with Patricia Nguyễn Date & Time: Wed, 22 Feb @5:00PM-7:00PM Location: Sàn Art Millenium Masteri, Units B.16 & B.17 132 Ben Van Don, Ward 6, District 4, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Language: English “altered states of being | performance meditations” is an artist talk that delves into Patricia Nguyễn’s performance methods, where she engages with memory, cartographies of migration, dispossession, nation-building, and somatics to investigate processes of knowledge and historical production. She discusses the use of improvisation, archival research, sensorial...

Patricia Nguyễn

Patricia Nguyễn is an artist, scholar, and educator. She is an Assistant Professor in American Studies at the University of Virginia and earned her Ph.D. in Performance Studies at Northwestern University. She has performed and exhibited at the Museum of Memory and Human Rights in Chile, Prague Quadrennial, Mission Cultural Center in San Francisco, Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Milwaukee Art Museum, Manzi, and Nha San Collective. Dr. Nguyen has published work in Women Studies Quarterly, Harvard Kennedy School’s Asian American Policy Review, Women and Performance, AmerAsia, Journal of...