The Unburied Sounds of a Troubled Horizon | Screening and Artist Sharing

About the speakers

Tuan Andrew Nguyen (1976, Saigon) examines the quiet, persistent shifts that occur when bodies, histories and environments collide. His projects are based on extensive research and community engagement, re-working dominant, oftentimes colonial, histories and supernaturalisms into imaginative vignettes. Nguyen graduated from the Fine Arts programme at the University of California, Irvine in 1999 and received his MFA from California Institute of the Arts in 2004. Nguyen has had solo presentations at the New Museum, New York (2023); Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona (2024); Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town (2024); and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. (2024).

Hồ Văn Lai is a core member of Project RENEW’s Explosive Ordnance Risk Education Program, funded by the Irish Government through the Irish Embassy in Vietnam. As a survivor of a landmine accident in 2000 at the age of 10 in Quảng Trị, Lai has turned his traumatic experience into a driving force to contribute to the community. He directly leads communication sessions at Visitor Center, local schools, villages and community events, to raise awareness of the risks of unexploded ordnance and instruct people on safety measures. In the film The Unburied Sounds of a Troubled Horizon, Lai plays himself—a survivor—to tell the story of a son of Quảng Trị, contributing to creating connections and reconciliation between the past and the present.

Lê Nghĩa is a filmmaker with a background in journalism. His debut film, a collaboration with Tuan Andrew Nguyen on The Unburied Sounds of a Troubled Horizon, led him to investigate the lasting consequences of war on the land and people of Quảng Trị, Vietnam. He will share his experience making the film and the time he spent immersing himself in this historical region.