My video Precious. Rare. For Sale. and silk paintings will be show at the National Gallery Bangkok for this coming Biennale.

Image courtesy BAQ

Hello Paris! My first solo show since 2018!

Thank you Bao and Quinnie for having me at BAQ x BAO. I still cannot believe how Bao powered through No Cai Bum, hands-on helped me ship my work out of Vietnam, and now setting everything up!

This show was totally fun to work on! I get to play with words and scents, learning a whole bunch of new things from scent designer and artist Dex Le.

Image courtesy Nguyen Art Foundation

This has been a really intimate process. I get to work with my long time friends Bill, Nhat, Nhung, and other lovely Nguyen Art Foundation staff, who have supported me not just on this exhibition but in various capacities in the past. It’s a small but careful show where I’m training myself to pay attention to details. I’m grateful to Bill for being a fantastic soundboard and giving me the freedom to play and adjust as the show takes form from our initial conversations to conception.

Please join us for the opening if you’re in town. I’m excited to be showing next to Oanh Phi Phi!

Image taken from instagram @hyundai.artlab

Still can’t believe I was selected. Looking forward to the steep learning curve ahead.

Image from instagram @no.cai.bum

Late in posting this but was really happy to be invited by Nãi cinema to screen at the local art festival No Cai Bum, Da Nang edition. My second time participating after the first edition in Hue. In the spirit of make-do and pulling together local resources, this is peak!

It’s been almost a year since I set foot in Delfina Foundation and I have to say the experience was so valuable to me and helped me so much in catching up a bit with what else was going on in the world, and having the space to breath and gather my thoughts. I’m deeply grateful to the past and current staff who have worked so hard to make my stay as pleasant as possible and my experience really enriching and fun!

And it was amazing that not only they supported me during the residency but continued to extend their support after I’d left in the forms of detailed feedback and even a really comprehensive write up on my practice by the wonderful Stephanie Bailey.

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I will be doing a performance at this event on November 29th, 2023.

Please register if you’d like to join.

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Currently in London until Dec 10 as an artist in residence at

Delfina Foundation, Performance as process season 5

My new video Precious. Rare. For Sale , as part of Monographs will show at the following film festivals as a theatrical screening programme:

It will also premiere as a video installation at the Asian Film Archive Oldham Theatre Foyer, Singapore from October 26-December 10 2023.

This book has been out for a while but I finally received a hardcopy. I’m happy to have contributed to the last volume of the 6-part series intercalations developed by Anna-Sophie Springer & Etienne Turpin for the Berlin Haus der Kulturen der Welt's Anthropocene Project.

These Birds of Temptation
intercalations 6

intercalations 6 ... is a queer refrain, populated with both acoustical lines of flight and the sorrows of captivity, wherein the reader-as-exhibition-viewer learns that the adventure of ornithology is as preoccupied with the evolutionary meaning of allopreening among avifauna as it is with their taxonomical domination. ── With contributions creating a kaleidoscopic murmuration of minor ornithologies, including pieces on feathers, flight, song, loss, escape, and evasion, as well as a series of poetic reflections, short stories, and theoretical reflections on birds from Aristotle to Anaïs Nin, among many others.

 When we first began to plan this volume back in 2013, we hadn’t expected that it would become a collection so deeply concerned with extinction. Looking at it now, in 2022, this of course makes utmost sense. The diverse contributions in These Birds of Temptation interrogate the role of art and poetry in times of ecological collapse and offer reflections on how birds matter in our making sense of worlds and the earth. Birds, then, are not treated as passive objects but are considered as multi-dimensional beings with inherited and unfolding “life ways,” a concept by environmental philosopher and fellow bird friend, Thom van Dooren.

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These Birds of Temptation. Edited by Anna-Sophie Springer & Etienne Turpin. With contributions by Eddie Bartley, Ari Bayuaji, Bik Van der Pol, David Bonter, Xavi Bou, Tiffany Bozic, Lêna Bùi, Bertolt Brecht, Wallace Craig, Mark Dion, Andreas Doepke, Jimmie Durham, Anne Geene, Sophia Gräfe, Mary Ellen Hannibal, Nina Katchadourian, Bernie & Kat Krause, Barbara Marcel, Anaïs Nin, Arjan de Nooy, Megan Prelinger, John Paul Ricco, David Rothenberg, Juliana Spahr, Bruno Schulz, Anna-Sophie Springer, Frank Steinheimer, Yoko Tawada, Anna Tsing, Etienne Turpin, and Francesca Woodman. Design in collaboration with Katharina Tauer.