Tuan Andrew Nguyen: “Not Seeing is Believing”- Visiting Artist Lecture Series

University of Oregon- Department of Art Visiting Artist Lecture Series
Thursday, October 4, 2018 at 6:00 p.m.
Lawrence Hall, Room 177, 1190 Franklin Boulevard, Eugene, Oregon 97403

George and Matilda Fowler Lecture
Tuan Andrew Nguyen: “Not Seeing is Believing”

Tuan Andrew Nguyen’s lecture will look at the idea of supernaturalisms as a form of resistance. Starting with a film he made with The Propeller Group called The Living Need Light, The Dead Need Music, Nguyen will trace this idea through two of his recent films and his newest film project for the Sharjah Biennial 2019.

Tuan Andrew Nguyen graduated from the Fine Arts program at the University of California, Irvine in 1999 and received his Masters of Fine Arts from The California Institute of the Arts in 2004. His work explores strategies of political resistance through ritual, the making of objects [both as testimony and as devotion], supernaturalism 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 initiated The Propeller Group in 2006, a platform for collectivity that situates itself between an art collective and an advertising company. He was also a co-founder and board member of Sàn Art, an artist-initiated exhibition space and educational program in Sai Gon, Viet Nam.

This lecture is made possible by the George and Matilda Fowler Endowment Fund. Lectures are free and open to all.

Website- tuanandrewnguyen.com, the-propeller-group.com
Headshot caption- Photo credit: Huynh Ngo Van Anh
Image caption- The Island (film still), 2017, 2048 x 1080p, color, 5.1 surround sound; 42 min. Photo credit: TANQ studios