It was my pleasure to introduce my research about post-Agent Orange in Vietnam – as a reading performance in the group exhibition No Place Like Home III, hold at SLQS gallery in the opening program of Backyard Biennial: East of Whitechapel Gallery.

Agent Orange was one of the herbicides sprayed by the US military in South Vietnam, from 1961 to 1971. It causes multigenerational damages in the land, the Vietnamese people, Laos, Cambodia, and also even the US and other alliance veterans. This research, titled How to Touch the Elephant, is my ongoing journey to the attend to the war memory in Vietnam, which shadow I am still living in, and we might say, that its shape is now still spreading in Gaza, Ukraine, Lebanon and everywhere.

Thanks to Hoa Dung Clerget for the introduction and KV Duong for the support and documentation. Thanks everyone for coming and for the great conversations.

No Place Like Home III is curated by Hoa Dung Clerget and KV Duong, with works by Hien Hoang, Alvin Luong, Moi Tran, Thuy Tien Nguyen, and the curators. The show runs till 19 September at SLQS Gallery, London.

Impressions from the Reading Performance