SWHNMs Ecological Sounds of the Vietnamese Diaspora - Video Poetry
A multi-voice poem by the She Who Has No Master(s) collaborative with Vietnamese women & nonbinary writers in the US, Canada, and Viet Nam.
Poem coordinated by Diana Khoi Nguyen and Dao Strom, for AAAS Conference 2021 - "Unsettling Transpacific Ecologies"
Voices:
mai c. doan, maicdoan.com/
Vi Khi Nao, vikhinao.com/
Hoa Nguyen, hoa-nguyen.com/
Dao Strom, daostrom.com/
Nhã Thuyên, junglepoetry.wordpress.com/
Barbara Tran, barbaratran.com/
Phuong T. Vuong, phuongthaovuong.com/
Viewable on Vimeo here:
“My contribution to the voices was a meditation on ‘silence’ and ‘soundings’ reflected on the tree shrines I encountered in Hanoi (image left). My soundtrack included bird song and Ocean Vuong reciting the tones of the syllable “ma” in Vietnamese. I made the shrine on the spring equinox six days after the Atlanta spa murders as a gesture of remembrance, release, and veneration, grief work in ceremony, measured in solar-earth time. I’m sowing seeds of calendula which, despite my casual planting method, grew.
Below I am venerating the tree and the calendula “little clocks” on the fall equinox.”
—Hoa Nguyen, from her talk “Time Experiments”, University of Miami low residency MFA Winter 2022
