Diane Mehta, “Interview: The Propeller Group,” BOMB Magazine, February 21, 2013 →.
Mehta, “Interview: The Propeller Group.”
Mehta, “Interview: The Propeller Group.”
Minh T. N. Nguyen, Phill Wilcox, and Jake Lin, “The Good Life in Late-Socialist Asia: Aspirations, Politics, and Possibilities,” Positions 32, no. 1 (February 2024).
Jason McGrath, Postsocialist Modernity: Chinese Cinema, Literature, and Criticism in the Market Age (Stanford University Press, 2008), 13.
Arif Dirlik, “Postsocialism? Reflections on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics,” Critical Asian Studies, no. 21 (March 1989).
Shu-mei Shih, “Is the Post- in Postsocialism the Post- in Posthumanism?” Social Text, no. 30 (March 2012): 44.
Shih, “Is the Post- in Postsocialism,” 29.
Since it is a common periodization practice to treat 1989 as the onset of contemporary art, “where 1989 is the dialectical counterpart to 1945” (Peter Osborne), contemporary Vietnamese art and post-socialist Vietnamese art have great overlaps.
Mariam Lam, “Circumventing Channels: Indie Filmmaking in Post-Socialist Việt Nam and Beyond,” Glimpses of Freedom: Independent Cinema in Southeast Asia, ed. May Ingawanij and Benjamin McKay (Cornell University Press, 2012).
Mehta, “Interview: The Propeller Group.”
Nguyen Art Foundation website →.
Personal correspondence with the artist.
Personal correspondence with the artist.
Chang Tan, “Art for/of the Masses,” Third Text 26, no. 2 (2012).
Malcolm W. Browne, “First US Trade Exhibit Is Held in Hanoi,” New York Times, April 24, 1994 →.
Quoted in Pamela Corey and Nora Taylor, “Đổi Mới and the Globalization of Vietnamese Art,” Journal of Vietnamese Studies, no. 14 (February 2019).
Corey and Taylor, “Đổi Mới,” 1.
Artists in the 1990s and 2000s also distanced themselves from “art” they associated with the regime, regarding their creative activities as anti-art. See Nora Taylor, “Vietnamese Anti-Art and Anti-Vietnamese Artists,” Journal of Vietnamese Studies 2, no. 2 (Summer 2007); and Don’t Call It Art! Contemporary Art in Vietnam 1993–1999, ed. Annette Bhagwati and Veronika Radulovic (Kerber, 2022).
Nguyen, Wilcox, and Lin, “The Good Life,” 3.
Tuan Andrew Nguyen, “Proposals for a Vietnamese Landscape,” tuanandrewnguyen.com →.
“Diane Severin Nguyen: IF REVOLUTION IS A SICKNESS,” sculpture-center.org →.
Tan, “Art for/of the Masses,” 178.
Tan, “Art for/of the Masses,” 177.
Stuart Hall, “On Postmodernism and Disarticulation: An Interview with Stuart Hall by Larry Grossberg,” in S. Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 1: Foundations of Cultural Studies, ed. David Morley (Duke University Press, 2018), 229.
Hall, “On Postmodernism and Disarticulation,” 226.
Tan, “Art for/of the Masses,” 178.
Shih, “Is the Post- in Postsocialism,” 43.
