LOVE IN THE TIME OF WAR
September 1 - October 15, 2016
Curated by Việt Lê and Jennifer Vanderpool
Opening Reception & Artist Talk: Thursday, September 1, 2016 6 - 8 PM
Closing Reception & Artivist Panel: Saturday, October 15, 2016, 6 - 8 PM
PRESS RELEASE
Love in the Time of War at SF Camerawork, Temporary Art Review, Sept. 16, 2016
Southeast Asian artists reflect on war that's never in the past, SF Chronicle, Sep. 28, 2016
SF Camerawork and UC Santa Barbara are pleased to present: Love in the Time of War. Organized by curators Việt Lê and Jennifer Vanderpool, the exhibition will be on view at SF Camerawork from September 1 through October 15, 2016.
Connecting the fortieth anniversary of the military engagements in Southeast Asia and current wars overseas and on U.S. streets, Love in the Time of War features emerging and established artists with deep connections to Phnom Penh, Paris, Hà Nội, Los Angeles, and in-between. The exhibit explores the relationship between war and intimacy, politics and the personal, the body and the body politic. The homefront and homerotics; longing and loss—in light of dark military engagements then and now, these artists query and queer the divide between violence and love, between the state and intimate statements. The artists embody the contradictions of engaging love—its contingency and urgency—in a time of eternal wars.
A website featuring special online-only artists projects and a full-color print catalogue accompanies the show.
LIST OF ARTISTS
Anida Yoeu Ali, Bo, Francisco Camacho Herrera, Nguyễn Quốc Thành, Amy Lee Sanford, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Delicious Taste, Studio Revolt, Vănguard, Vuth Lyno, and Bruce Yonemoto
CURATORS
Việt Lê is an artist, curator, and Assistant Professor of Visual Studies at the California College of the Arts. Jennifer Vanderpool is an artist and curator currently teaching at UC Sant Barbara.
PROGRAMMING DETAILS
Opening reception and Artist Talk at SF Camerawork will feature Delicious Taste (Bruce Yonemoto and Grant Levy-Doolittle, LA) in conversation with Việt Lê and Jennifer Vanderpool
Thursday, September 1, 2016, 6 - 8 PM
There will be two off-site screenings of Forgetting Vietnam by Trinh T. Minh-ha in conjunction with the exhibition.
September 16, 2016, 7 - 9 PM New Parkway Theater, Oakland
September 22, 2016, 7 - 9 PM Timken Hall, CCA, San Francisco
Closing reception and Artivist panel will feature Anida Yoeu Ali, Francisco Camacho Herrera, Bo, Amy Lee Sanford, and Nguyễn Quốc Thành in conversation with Việt Lê. Anida Yoeu Ali will preset a site-specific performance: Red Chador.
Saturday, October 15, 2016, 6 - 8 PM.
This exhibition is generously supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network, and Intersection for the Arts.
Below is a video documenting an exhibition-related panel discussion at SF Camerawork with curator Việt Lê and four of the exhibiting artists, Nguyen Quoc Thanh, Anida Yoeu Ali, Bo and Amy Lee Sanford. This video was directed by Megan McHugh and produced by Joseph De Mario of Art Curved Straight.
