Yearly Archives: 2018

HAFT-SEEN, A MODERN MISCELLANY

Haft-Seen is an experimental visual/filmic project that is a collaboration between three artists who contribute moving image, poetry, and sound/music. They are—between them—of Southeast-, East- and West Asian, and American, backgrounds. Haft-Seen is a piece of collaborative storytelling that engages a wide range of the storytelling “senses”...

diaCRITICS News & Events: April 16, 2018

Events February 21 – April 29, 2018, at the A.C.T.’s Strand Theater. "Bold, vivid, and utterly fresh, Vietgone is an irreverent new comedy from...

diaCRITICS Speaks to Mekong Review Editor Minh Bui Jones

In this diaCRITICS interview Dao Strom speaks with Minh Bui Jones, editor of the Mekong Review, a quarterly print magazine that features reviews, cultural...

Human Rights News: Việt Nam & Diaspora – April 9, 2018

The 88 Project Vietnam Free Expression Newsletter No. 14/2018 – Week of April 2-8Vietnam Free Expression Newsletter No. 13/2018 – Week of March 26-April 1Radio...

Upcoming Events: Refugee Poetics & She Who Has No Master(s)

Currently there’s no institutional space devoted expressly to poetry of the refugee experience. Let’s imagine one into existence together, for a day.

diaCRITICS News & Events: April 2, 2018

Events Danh Vo: Take My Breath Away, New York Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, February 9 to May 9, 2018. Danish artist Danh Vo dissects the...

A Conversation about A Different Pond with Bao Phi and Thi Bui

Contributing writer Jade Hidle reflects on the role of reading in her own childhood, and speaks to Bao Phi and Thi Bui about their...

Experimental Vietnamese Poetry “Hawkers”

"An impressive slate of experimental poetry from Vietnam dominates the inaugural edition of our Prize," writes Sing Lit Station, about the list of poems and...

Interview with Filmmaker Duc Nguyen: “Nothing Left To Lose”

The "stateless" refugees whose stories documentary filmmaker Duc Nguyen profiles in his latest project, Nothing Left To Lose, are all-too-often overlooked cases in the refugee crisis. Some have abided in this limbo state--of "statelessness"--for decades.

diaCRITICS News & Events: March 19, 2018

Events Danh Vo: Take My Breath Away, New York Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, February 9 to May 9, 2018. Danish artist Danh Vo dissects the...