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	<title>vân anh</title>
	<link>https://vananh.space</link>
	<description>vân anh</description>
	<pubDate>Sat, 30 Nov 2024 18:16:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Front page</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2022 19:32:21 +0000</pubDate>

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I am a trans-disciplinary artist and researcher based in NYC, on Canarsie and Munsee Lenape Land.&#60;img width="1098" height="648" width_o="1098" height_o="648" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/be0ec127ea969a002233998d188ce943e223d0700e2c5c3adaa1e39bade4fbbf/redborder.png" data-mid="219873120" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/be0ec127ea969a002233998d188ce943e223d0700e2c5c3adaa1e39bade4fbbf/redborder.png" /&#62;</description>
		
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		<title>ENDLESS SEA</title>
				
		<link>https://vananh.space/ENDLESS-SEA</link>

		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2024 18:21:16 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>vân anh</dc:creator>

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Video with sound, 3 minutes, 19 seconds,&#38;nbsp;2024
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RECOVERED RECORD FROM THE DECOMMISSIONED MEKONG MARINE OBSERVATORY: 
I keep dreaming about a large jellyfish swallowing me whole. Its tentacles don’t sting. They’re soft on my cheeks. I’ve never seen one, of course, but I read all about them in school. I think this one is making me think about jellyfish. I stare at it all day, so it keeps me company in my dreams too. Actually, it hasn’t reacted to any of our tests. Very stubborn. I told you about that song we keep hearing? And how my grandma used to sing something similar? She was stubborn too. She came back here and stayed even when the first evacuation zone was announced. ██████████████████████████████████

███████████████████████████

 No, she stayed until she passed. She’s buried with the rest of the family, I think. That would be at ████████, actually. I wrote down all of the important places before they sunk completely. She’d probably be happy to see that I’m back here now. Maybe the jellyfish is her spirit trying to tell me that.


	










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RECOVERED RECORD FROM THE DECOMMISSIONED MEKONG MARINE OBSERVATORY: 

I found it at 01:15 on the main deck. It’s not complete, I don’t think. No, it wasn’t my shift last night. I was up because I heard the singing again. It sounds like a recording my grandma used to play. 

███

 recognized it too. It was wet when I found it, but it shriveled up once I brought it into the lab. It was so heavy, like something was weighing it down. Like it was reluctant to leave the sea. But you see it’s so small. I can’t stop looking at it. 




	







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RECOVERED RECORD FROM THE DECOMMISSIONED MEKONG MARINE OBSERVATORY: 

It looks exactly like the bánh chưng my mother used to make for new years. I haven’t had it since I was little. 

████

 was salivating. I could see her whole face change once we brought it in. She said it looked like a gift. ████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████



 I’m not sure what happened afterwards, but they came and got her before she could go any further. 

████████████████████

I don’t blame her. I could taste it too. 




	




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RECOVERED RECORD FROM THE DECOMMISSIONED MEKONG MARINE OBSERVATORY:


It was waiting for me. I mean it was waiting for me. I tried to bring it up with ██████, but he thinks I’m seeing things that aren’t there. But there can’t be any other conclusion, is there? I mean it was ████████████████████████████████████████████

███████████

█████████████████████████████. The story, the specimens, the words in the song we’ve been hearing. What else could it be? They want us to follow them to sea.


	


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In the aftermath of the war in Vietnam, millions of people fled Southeast Asia by boat. Over 250,000 of these refugees never left the sea.
 This project speculates on a world in which these refugees lost at sea never drowned. Instead, their contact with the ocean and will to survive activated a watery mutation that allowed them to thrive underwater. Instead of a graveyard, the ocean became a new home.

100 years later, as rising sea levels devastate Southeast Asia, the descendants of these refugees re-emerge in the overworld in an attempt to save their kin from imminent ecological collapse. They invite their remaining kin to join them in the water, to live in safety and prosperity in the endless sea.




	






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		<title>Amulets + Talismans</title>
				
		<link>https://vananh.space/Amulets-Talismans</link>

		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Nov 2024 18:16:39 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>vân anh</dc:creator>

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		<description>Amulets and talismans[Works in progress]


bùa thằn lằn

3D object with sound, 2024







An amulet imbued with the spirit of
a gecko. running along the crease where

the wall and ceiling meet. that my ba

points out to us nearing midnight in the

slow summer. it’s too hot but we’re still

close. i haven’t heard ba’s voice in a long long time. 
he’s singing the
gecko’s song 
and the gecko sings back.
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Developed as part of Repatterning and Practice with Amina Ross &#38;amp; Hiba Ali at The School for Poetic Computation.


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		<title>this page / this squire</title>
				
		<link>https://vananh.space/this-page-this-squire</link>

		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Apr 2023 18:03:45 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>vân anh</dc:creator>

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		<description>this page / this squire







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Garments designed in collaboration with composer and 

percussionist
Orchid McRae, 2023

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		<title>He needs me</title>
				
		<link>https://vananh.space/He-needs-me</link>

		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Nov 2021 19:51:00 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>vân anh</dc:creator>

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		<description>He needs me[Demo]




Unity 3D, 2020
Sound design by 

Orchid McRae



“He needs me” is a prototype for a video game in which players embark on a journey to visit three goddxsses in an attempt to communicate to their queer ancestors.





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		<title>gays only</title>
				
		<link>https://vananh.space/gays-only</link>

		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2023 23:31:03 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>vân anh</dc:creator>

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		<description>gays only
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CLO 3D, Blender, 2019

It is common practice in parts of Asia to offer food to ancestors during times of celebration and grief, in order to welcome them back to us. 


These ancestor portraits are a way of inhabiting queer futures while exploring a queer past. Somewhere along the line, there was someone else. My queer ancestors are watching over me. Life is a bit better knowing I was never alone.





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		<title>anh + quan</title>
				
		<link>https://vananh.space/anh-quan</link>

		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Nov 2021 04:44:08 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>vân anh</dc:creator>

		<guid isPermaLink="true">https://vananh.space/anh-quan</guid>

		<description>ANH + QUAN&#60;img width="2727" height="1818" width_o="2727" height_o="1818" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5602a6a529c6a1b66e0eb404542e51ac49f971b04ddaf3a37b4e80ddf09d8d6b/ANHQUAN_RGB-9.jpg" data-mid="175106134" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5602a6a529c6a1b66e0eb404542e51ac49f971b04ddaf3a37b4e80ddf09d8d6b/ANHQUAN_RGB-9.jpg" /&#62;

Garments made from deadstock wool, cotton, and polyester tulle, 2017

Photographed by Jeana Lindo


This collection of garments explores the artist's sense of identity residing in multiple interlocking worlds--between Vietnam and America, male and female, citizen and immigrant. They attempt to translate these voided spaces into figures that are more concrete and familiar by superimposing their own image onto their father, Quan, to create an avatar of ideal self.






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		<title>Zines</title>
				
		<link>https://vananh.space/Zines</link>

		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2021 02:56:28 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>vân anh</dc:creator>

		<guid isPermaLink="true">https://vananh.space/Zines</guid>

		<description>Zines


Portable Network KitsCommunity Tech NY, 2022



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A brief guide to Community Tech NY's Portable Network Kit (PNK), a wireless network in a suitcase. This zine is used to introduce community partners to how the PNK can be used as a learning platform for building digital literacy or as a communication tool during climate emergencies. 




Starfruit Issue 01: Divine HarvestGAPIMNY Trans Justice Committee, 2019

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Our vision for the future is rooted in what we already have inside of us: the compassion, imagination, kindness, connection, love, and resilience that builds whole worlds. In these endless possible futures, we see trans and gender nonconforming people everywhere. Transness is no longer about a clinical orientation. Trans people do not feel required to use medical transition or rigid gender expression to bargain for resources and safety. Instead, we see ourselves and each other as expansive creations of nature, unbound by scientific and cultural values created by colonizers.

Imagine this: we leave our homes for a potluck cookout for Trans Day of Resilience, the largest trans celebration in the world. When we find our loved ones, we greet all of them with kisses and hugs. Our mouths water with the aroma of foods representing some of the rich history and lineage around us: curry, bánh xèo, roti, oxtail, plantains, kalua pig, and more. The Girls are singing with a blend of tones and timbres, deep and high voices laden with the joy of sisterhood. A group of cis men pass by and the only comment they have is that we are slightly off-key. We kindly remind them that we have perfect pitch.

This world we’ve built together gives all people the resources to be free. We have built healing practices into even the simple ways we interact with one another on a day to day basis. Our community is based on collective growth and reflection. We tap into our ancestral roots and remember that we are nature itself. Our healers are modern-day bakla, hijra, māhū, fa’afafine, nádleehi, akava’ine, muxe, sekrata, quariwarmi, and more. We are governed by investment in ourselves and our community. Our neighborhoods are vast, including the ocean, mountains, and sky itself. Home is an endless feeling. Our lifeways nourish the earth and all living creatures.

All we must do now is feast and thrive in our surplus harvest, beautifully reaping what we sow.
We ask you:
In an imagined future, one free of all of the oppressions you can think of, what do you see? What do you hear? What are you eating in this world? How do people relate to each other?&#38;nbsp; How do we greet one another? Who is keeping us safe? How do we hold each other accountable? Where do we go when we’re in pain? What is home? Do we work? Where do we work?&#38;nbsp; How do we work? What do we call ourselves?





MYSTERIOUS AS THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON2017



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An exploration of Asian masculinity in American media and beyond
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		<title>Illustrations</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2023 20:08:41 +0000</pubDate>

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		<description>Illustrations





2026orchiddbb “water the teeth” album
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2025

Red Pocket Press “Year of the Snake” zine





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2023
Socially Distant Art 22-23, Mail Art Exchange


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