Returns and Departures and Returns Again: Reimagining Spirit, Body and Landscape in Vietnam and Vietnamese America through Performance 50 Years After the War

In recognition of the 50th anniversary of the end of the Second Indochinese War, performance artists Ly Hoàng Ly (Vietnam) and Viet Lê (U.S.) will take part in a one-week artistic residency to commemorate the afterlives of war as well as the ongoing transformations of both Vietnam and the U.S. in its wake. Ly and Lê will each create a new work to premier at the end of their residency. There will also be a film screening and a half-day symposium that will contextualize their work within Asian American as well as other Southeast and East Asian histories of militarism, colonialism, migration, and resilience.