Future Souths: Dialogues on Art, Place, and History and Làm Chó Bò: Making Trouble
Double book launch
21 March 2024
6.00PM–7.30PM
Celebrate the double launch of Future Souths: Dialogues on Art, Place, and History and Làm Chó Bò: Making Trouble. Join us for an in conversation with authors Verónica Tello and James Nguyen, facilitated by Dr Chari Larsson, followed by a reception.
Initiated and introduced by Tello, Future Souths is the culmination of an online dialogical project begun in 2017. Written by eighteen authors from the Americas, Australia, Asia, South Africa, and Europe, it radically reconsiders the bases and biases of contemporary art history and discourse. Future Souths proposes a fluid, collective, reconsideration of key art concepts from the perspectives and experiences of the Global South.
As well as offering exegetical analysis of Nguyen’s own work, Làm Chó Bò examines a range of themes including institutional research culture and the politics of research ethics; the act of translation, migration, Australian settler colonialism, and Indigenous land acknowledgements; cross-generational experiences of postwar Vietnamese diaspora; and the legacies of Vietnamese feminist poetry, including poetry by the artist’s mother, Nguyen Thi Kim Dung. The book features a foreword by Bundjalung, Kamilaroi, and MuruWarri artist and educator Professor Brian Martin.
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Verónica Tello is an art historian, curator, and senior lecturer in contemporary art history and theory at UNSW Art and Design. Her research focuses on transnational art histories in and out of Australia, Chile, the Pacific, and Latin America. Her writing has appeared in Third Text, Memory Studies, Afterall, and Artforum. She is a Sydney editor of Memo Review and Editor-in-Chief of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art.
Dr Chari Larsson is Senior Lecturer in Art History and Theory at Queensland College of Art and Design, Griffith University. She is the author of Didi-Huberman and the image (Manchester University Press, 2020) and has been published in journals including Journal of Art Historiography, Senses of Cinema and Psychoanalysis, and Culture and Society. Her current research concentrates on the intersection of community memory, trauma, and the war in Ukraine.
James Nguyen works in Australia and Vietnam. His videos, installations, and actions offer a way to think more openly about the world. Ranging from the diasporic absurd to representational refusal, everything and anything is up for grabs. He has a PhD from UNSW (on broken translations), a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Sydney (on the cinematic body), a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Hons) from the National Art School, and a Bachelor of Pharmacy from Charles Sturt University. He was a collaborative fellow at UnionDocs (Centre for Documentary Arts, Brooklyn, New York). He shows locally and internationally.
