Book Presentation and Talk: Asian Revolutionaries and Asian-American Conservatives
With Matthew Shen Goodman and Minh Nguyen, moderated by Teline Trần
Minh Nguyen, Memorial Park, pp. 118–119; Photo: Justin Lubliner
Location
The Classroom at the New York Art Book Fair
MoMA PS1
22-25 Jackson Avenue
Queens, NY 11001
About the event
As part of the New York Art Book Fair, critic and curator Minh Nguyen joins writer and The Baffler editor-in-chief Matthew Shen Goodman for a discussion on Asian politics across borders and how Asian revolutionary legacies shape diaspora politics in unexpected ways, moderated by Teline Trần.
Occasioned by the release of Nguyen’s essay collection Memorial Park, which examines the afterlife of the Vietnamese revolution—both within the country and among Vietnamese Americans, one of the most conservative Asian diaspora groups—the conversation bridges to Shen Goodman’s recent writing and book-in-progress on the roots of right-wing Asian American movements. Together they consider the usefulness of “Asian American” as an analytical framework, and how art and cultural criticism offer approaches to understanding the political realities of place. Presented by Wendy’s Subway and Art Metropole.
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About the speakers
Matthew Shen Goodman is the editor in chief of The Baffler. He was previously a senior editor at Triple Canopy.
Minh Nguyen is a writer and curator based between New York City and Ho Chi Minh City. She is the curator of Dogma, a collection and gallery in Ho Chi Minh City focused on art and political graphics, and managing editor of e-flux journal. Her art and film criticism has appeared in publications such as Art in America, Artforum, e-flux, Momus, Mousse, and frieze, and she has curated exhibitions and programs at Wing Luke Museum, Northwest Film Forum, King Street Station, Gene Siskel Film Center, and Chicago Cultural Center. Formerly an instructor at Parsons School of Design—The New School, she has received a Warhol Arts Writers Grant, Fogo Island Arts Writing Award, and New York University’s Asia/Pacific/America Institute Visiting Scholar fellowship.