UuDam Tran Nguyen, Serpents’ Tails (2015), 15 minutes
Category: Arts & Entertainment
Date and Time for this Past Event
- Thursday, Feb 24, 2022 11am - 11:50pm
Location
Museum of Boulder
2205 Broadway
Details
east window in partnership with the University of Colorado Boulder will present a series of film screenings of contemporary Southeast Asian artists. This series is guest curated by Brianne Cohen, Assistant Professor of Contemporary Art History, University of Colorado Boulder. Cohen researches and teaches courses on art concerned with public sphere formation, decolonization, political violence, and ecology and environmentalism.
A short documentary of the acclaimed performance Rồng Rắn Lên (Serpents' Tails), an immersive installation of motorbikes whose exhaust systems seem to inflate, feed and give flight to tubular “serpents”. In Nguyen’s metaphor, humanity wrestles with the by-products of its industry, which continue to wreak environmental imbalance and destruction.
