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Trinh T. Minh-ha: Exploring Interdisciplinary Film, Theory, and Cultural Identity

Discover the artist's resistance to categorization and fluid approach to narrative across her cinematic and theoretical works.

Delve into the profound artistic practice of Trinh T. Minh-ha, an acclaimed filmmaker and theorist. This exhibition highlights her unique blending of diverse writing and narrative forms, challenging conventional classifications in film, theory, and cultural studies. Visitors can explore her cinematic works and publications, gaining insight into her perspectives on identity, postcolonialism, and feminist thought. Experience her method of 'widening the boundaries of things' through an engaging display.

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Exhibition summary

This exhibition showcases the films and theoretical works of Trinh T. Minh-ha, known for blending diverse writing and narrative forms. The display highlights her resistance to categorization through the interplay of the theoretical and the poetic, and the discursive and the non-discursive.

Curatorial context

The exhibition delves into the multifaceted practice of Trinh T. Minh-ha, whose films and theoretical writings are characterized by a fluid approach to language, narrative, and identity. Minh-ha challenges conventional classifications by interweaving theoretical discourse with poetic expression, evident in her work's resistance to rigid boundaries across ethnicities and cultures. The Secession exhibition presents five of her films alongside insights into her recent publications, reflecting her method of 'widening the boundaries of things' and questioning personal limitations. Her theoretical texts, such as 'Un Art sans Oeuvre,' are noted for their unconventional connections between thinkers and traditions, creating open fields with dynamic, strategic boundaries rather than mere interdisciplinary additions. Minh-ha's approach to representation, particularly in films like 'Reassemblage' and 'Naked Spaces – Living Is Round' (created in Senegal and West Africa), deliberately plays with audience expectations, even incorporating staged interviews in 'Surname Viet, Given Name Nam.' The exhibition underscores her perspective on hybridity and cultural difference, emphasizing the active invention and strategic shifting of boundaries—political, tactical, or personal—rather than their simple erasure. This concept aligns with the 'nomadic self,' where identity is fluid and constructed through dynamic interactions with diverse cultural contexts, exemplified by her reflections on identifying as feminist or as part of the East or West. The exhibition design was by Adolf Krischanitz, and production for the films was by Jean-Paul Bourdier.

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Secession
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Exhibition schedule
From Mar 7, 2001
Artist line / attribution
Featuring the work of Trinh T. Minh-ha, born in Vietnam and based in Berkeley, California.
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