THE HYBRID CONDITION explores cultural hybridity through a four channel video and audio installation using a blend of personal, archival, and modern day footage. 

By juxtaposing various moving images, the work highlights the complex interconnectedness of diasporic culture and cultural colonialism. 

The footage plays across two screens, each screen playing on seperate run times presenting an ever changing artwork. The unplanned nature of the work mix and group the videos, presenting them occasionally at odds with each other, and often – coexisting.

The footage featured emphasizes, but is not limited to, Vietnamese identity and diaspora; THE HYBRID CONDITION digs into the roots of cultural, ethnic, and national identities to question Western hegemony and influence over Asian-Vietnamese-X identities. 

Video editing and support by Warren Goodwin

Technical build support by Francis Goodship

Texts by Anita Hwahmee Joh and Liam O'Keefe

Supported by OBORO, MAI, PRIM, and Festival Accès Asie

Essentially, I wanted to create an artwork that could try to mimic some facets of my "hybrid" identity. 

One screen (titled, WEST SCREEN) projects footage depicting typical Western representations/understanding/propaganda/tokenism of Vietnamese and Asian people. 

The second screen, REGDEG, is sequenced and connected via its link as self representated footage of Vietnamese and Asian images. 

As the videos play over top of eachother, they create an affective collection of clips that can often feel as if they were intended to be together (I assure you that they were not), and sometimes are at odds with eachother... mimicking, you guessed it ✴.·´¯`·.·★🎀🅻🅸🅵🅴🎀★·.·`¯´·.✴.

So, I'm somewhere in between the screens, that third screen, the result of all the layering, and some of you may be too. 

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TKV® Fine Arts & Financial Arts represents cultural ideas, memories, and artifacts that have shaped my identity and experiences as a Vietnamese Canadian. 

These projects and products are all about being able to tell another story and add nuance to the Vietnamese narrative so that it's not only about Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now (1979), soup, coffee (all of these things are enjoyable).

I'm telling stories that resonate with me as part of the Vietnamese diaspora, and maybe they don't connect with everyone, but I'm hoping there's something here for you anyway.

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