Minh Nguyen, Memorial Park: Revisiting Vietnam 

 

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 HCMC focused on art and political graphics, and managing editor of e-flux journal. Her book Memorial Park is out with Wendy’s Subway and Art Metropole.

Catherine Quan Damman is an art historian and critic; she holds the Valeria Napoleone Linda Nochlin Professorship at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, where she is Assistant Professor in Modern and Contemporary Art. Her first book, Performance and Contradiction, is forthcoming with Princeton University Press in 2027.

Kaleem Hawa is a writer and researcher living in New York. His book on the Palestinian captives' movement, Like a Bag Trying to Empty, was published by Wendy's Subway last year.

Yasmina Price is a New York–based writer and film programmer completing a PhD at Yale University. She is devoted to visual culture from the African continent and diaspora, anti-colonial cinema, and the experimental practices of women artists. Her programming has been featured at Anthology Film Archives, Light Industry, Maysles Documentary Center, e-flux, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Pan African Film & Arts Festival, Los Angeles; and The National Gallery of Art, D.C. Her writing has appeared in edited volumes and museum catalogues, with essays in The Nation, The Baffler, MUBI’s Notebook, Hammer & Hope, Criterion’s Current, Film Quarterly and World Records Journal.

Mark Tseng-Putterman is a writer, historian, and educator based in New York City. His work focuses on how US empire has shaped the politics of Asian American belonging during the unfinished Cold War. His manuscript-in-progress, Cold War Diaspora, draws on several years of archival research and oral histories to trace how Chinese, Filipino, and Japanese American communities navigated the colliding projects of racial inclusion and diasporic nationalism during the 1950s–1980s. His writing has appeared in publications such as The Atlantic, Los Angeles Review of Books, and Boston Review. He is co-editor of a new collection on contemporary Asian American grassroots activism, Asian America Rising, published in September by New York University Press, and is currently a Visiting Scholar at the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU.