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“Generation Return: Art + Justice” 2013 TOUR SCHEDULE
Featuring the works of Anida Yoeu Ali & her collaboration with Studio Revolt
Event Title: Generation Return: Art + Justice Post-Genocide & Post-9/11
Duration: 1.5 – 2 hours total (ranges based on school/community needs):
+ 60-75 min performance/screening,
+ 30-45 min Q&A discussion with the artist
Date/Venue: April 2- April 26, 2013/USA & North America
April 3 – Michigan State University (East Lansing, MI)
April 4 – University of Minnesota (Twin Cities, MN)
April 6 – Oberlin College (Oberlin, OH)
April 8 – Stevenson High School (Lincolnshire, IL)
April 9 – School of the Art Institute (Chicago, IL)
April 9 – Columbia College (Chicago, IL)
April 10 – University of IL (Chicago, IL)
April 11 – Claremont Colleges -Pitzer (Claremont,CA)
April 13 – ArtXchange (Long Beach, CA)
April 16 – University of Washington (Seattle, WA)
April 18 – University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada)
April 19 – Emily Carr University (Vancouver, Canada)
April 24 – New York University (NYC, NY)
April 26 – Project Reach Chinatown (NYC, NY)
April 27 – TOPAZ Arts (Queens, NY)
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TOUR DETAILS
15 appearances / 11 cities / 2 countries…and traveling all the way from Phnom Penh Cambodia to make this happen…Anida’s tour dates and events are as follows:
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
East Lansing, MI
3rd Annual Asian Pacific American Heritage Month “Kick-Off”
Presents “What Empowers You?”
Featuring: Anida Yoeu Ali
Michigan State University
MSU Location: Wonders, Kiva
Time: 6:00 - 8:00pm
FREE & Open to the public
***The evening will end with the traditional launching of sky lanterns!
Sponsored by: The Office of Cultural & Academic Transitions/OCAT, Asian Pacific American Student Organization/APASO, Asian Pacific American Studies Program, and Residential and Hospitality Services/RHS.
Website & details here: https://www.facebook.com/events/450516671694220/?notif_t=plan_admin_added
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Thursday, April 4, 2013
Twin Cities, MN
KHMER’S NEXT GENERATION presents:
Generation Return: Art + Justice Post-Genocide and Post-9/11
University of Minnesota (Eastbank)
Smith Hall 100
Time: 4-9 PM
Please join us as we present and discuss our works and ideas about contemporary justice and its residual effects on the Cambodian American experience. There will also be spoken word performances and film screenings!
Featuring the works of:
Anida Yoeu Ali & her collaboration with Studio Revolt
Chayster Douangphouxay
Elijah Chhum
Phira Rehm
Special thanks to Emily & Kat Eng and our co-sponsors: Smiley, TN and CSAM (Cambodian Student Association of Minnesota)
Website & details here: https://www.facebook.com/events/341817732603069/?fref=ts
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Saturday, April 6, 2013
Oberlin, OH
Oberlin College
Wilder Hall
135 W Lorain Street
Oberlin, OH
Event: Asia America Art (AAArt) Collective
Time: 3-4pm performance & 4:30-6pm workshop
Free/ Open to the Public
Website & details here: bit.ly/AAArt
Contact: Peter Nguyen pnguyen@oberlin.edu
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Monday, April 8, 2013
Lincolnshire, IL
Adlai E. Stevenson High School
1 Stevenson Drive
Lincolnshire, IL
7pm
Studio Theater
Free and open to the public
Contact: Cristal Sabbagh
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Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Chicago, IL
Classroom Visit: 1-3pm School of the Art Institute
Performance: Columbia College Chicago
Columbia College Chicago
HAUS at the Quincy Wong Center for Artistic Expression
623 S. Wabash, 1st floor
Chicago, IL 60605
6:30-8:30pm
Co-sponsor: This Asian Pacific American Heritage Month: Chicago Roots event is brought to you by Asian American Cultural Affairs at Columbia College Chicago and co-sponsored by Columbia College Chicago’s Asian Student Organization, One Tribe, International Student Affairs, and Ellen Stone Belic Institute for the Study of Women and Gender in the Arts and Media; and UIC Asian American Resource and Cultural Center, UIC Asian American Studies Program, UIC Asian Studies Program, and UIC International Studies Program (sponsor list information).
No ticket required. Free entrance. Open to the public.
Website & details here: http://events.colum.edu/event/asian_pacific_american_heritage_month_anida_yoeu_ali#.UVLonJM13Qo
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Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Chicago, IL
Classroom Guest Lectures at University of Illinois at Chicago
And Lunch at Asian American Resource & Cultural Center
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Thursday April 11, 2013
Claremont, CA
Claremont Colleges- Scripps Campus
Balch Auditorium Scripps College
7-9pm
FREE!
Co-sponsors: SCORE, CAPAS (Pitzer), Asian American Resource Center (Pomona), Adboard, APAM and more.
http://www.idaas.org
Contact: Erin O’brien geobomb@gmail.com
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Saturday, April 13, 2013
Long Beach, CA
Art Exchange
http://www.artexchangelb.org
356 East 3rd Street
Long Beach, CA 90802
Time: 5PM – 9PM*
*event coincides with the annual Long Beach artwalk
Fee: Suggested donation at the door or Pay What You Can
Event Details:
Catalyst Network of Communities will host artist, writer and global agitator Anida Yoeu Ali in her public performance entitled “Generation Return: Art & Justice Post-Genocide and Post-9/11” during the 2nd Saturday Artwalk of Long Beach, CA.
Opening acts include traditional dancers from Khmer Arts Academy and TLC dance troupe who will offer a blessing for the Khmer/Thai/Lao New Year.
Special spoken word opening by Hatefas Yop.
Live art by Ritchie Kong, Stuter, and more TBA
Music provided by DJ South
Partnering Organizations Include:
Catalyst Network of Communities: helping people and groups to connect, collaborate, and share resources. http://www.gocatalyst.org/
The ArtX: The ArtExchange supports working artists and arts education through the development of a world-class visual arts center reflecting the rich cultural heritage of our community.
Khmer Arts Academy: offers young members of the Greater Long Beach Cambodian community and other an opportunity to achieve a high level of excellence through year-round classical dance training.http://www.khmerarts.org/
KTL Dance Troupe from Wat Vipassana
Khmer Girls in Action: empowering young Southeast Asian women to become relevant social justice organizers who can respond to the immediate needs of their communities. http://www.kgalb.org/
One Love Movement (Long Beach and San Diego Chapter): A national network of grassroots Asian American organizers that unites communities to organize for power, so families can protect their human rights and live together with dignity.
Cambodian Town Film Festival: The purpose of the Cambodia Town Film Festival (CTTF) is to highlight the diversity of the Cambodian experience through the art of filmmaking. http://www.cambodiatownfilmfestival.com/
Tiyya Foundation: providing basic necessities for refugees and displaced Americans
If you or your organization are interested in being involved, please contact June at jumakae@gmail.com
Website & details here: https://www.facebook.com/events/137641829740706/?fref=ts
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Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Seattle, WA
University of Washington-Seattle
Location: Samuel E. Kelly Ethnic Cultural Center, Unity Rooms 104,
3931 Brooklyn Avenue NE
Time: 6:30pm-8:30pm
Sponsored by the Southeast Asia Center at the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies
For further info contact seac@uw.edu
Website & details here: http://jsis.washington.edu/seac/events.shtml
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April 17 – 20, 2013
Vancouver, BC (Canada)
Three Scheduled Vancouver events — all are free and open to the public; two are held at UBC and 1 at Emily Carr
Thursday, April 18th, 2013
12:30-2:00pm
“Meet the artist” lunch at the Liu Institute for Global Issues, University of British Columbia
Please RSVP (for this event only) here, so that we can ensure we have enough space and food.
Details here: http://www.ligi.ubc.ca/?p2=modules/liu/events/view.jsp&id=1173
Thursday, April 18th, 2013
5:00-6:30pm
Performance at the Royal Bank Cinema
at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts
University of British Columbia
Reception to Follow.
http://www.ligi.ubc.ca/?p2=modules/liu/events/view.jsp&id=1174
Friday, April 19th, 2013 — 7:00-9:00pm
Performance at Emily Carr University.
Reception to Follow.
Anida Yoeu Ali is actively engaged in international dialogues, community activism, and artistic resistance to multiple sites of oppression. She upholds the belief that art is a critical tool for individual and societal transformation. Ali, born in Cambodia and raised nearly all her life in Chicago, returned to live in Cambodia in 2011 after nearly 3 decades away. She is part of a returning diaspora of artists and thinkers creating narratives of Cambodia beyond war and poverty. Through performance and video works, she will present a body of work which provocatively considers the diasporic past/present contours of the Cambodian American experience.
For more information on these events, visit: www.ligi.ubc.ca/events/upcoming.htm.
Hosted in partnership with the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, and
UBC’s Departments of Visual Arts and Theory, Social Work, Theatre and Film, Political Science, Anthropology, and the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice.
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April 21-27, 2013
New York, NY
I will be in NYC for 1 week for Diaspora festivities programmed for and in relation to “Season of Cambodia”
Events include:
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
“Legacy of Now” Panel discussion
Curated & Moderated by Anida Yoeu Ali
Featuring Amy Lee Sanford, LinDa Saphan, Pete Pin, and Prumsodun Ok
Location:
6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
COST: FREE
To attend this discussion and reception Please RSVP by Monday April, 22, 2013 at www.apa.nyu.edu/events or 212.992.9653.
Website & details here:http://seasonofcambodia.org/event/legacy-of-now/
Friday, April 26, 2013
Generation Return: Version 1.5
Time: 8pm-11pm
Sliding Scale: $5-$10 donation or pay what you can
Location: Project Reach Chinatown, 4th Floor
39 Eldridge St, New York, NY 10002
http://m.google.com/u/m/B1GPco
Generation Return: Version 1.5 is an evening of spoken word, hip-hop, and video screenings featuring urban voices from Phnom Penh to NYC. The line up includes performances by Bochan Huy, praCh Ly, Anida Yoeu Ali, Kosal Khiev, and video selections by Studio Revolt. Featured artists are actively engaged in international dialogues and community activism through art. As products of war and as intergenerational witnesses to genocide, 1.5-generation Cambodian American artists have been on the frontlines of capturing the traumatic past and pushing for international justice.
Conceived as both a community concert and forum, a moderated discussion on justice and the Cambodian American community to follow with Dr. Cathy Schlund-vials and OneLove Movement
Saturday, April 27, 2013
1975 – Exhibition Opening & Performances
Location: Topaz Arts, 55-03 39th Avenue, Queens, NY 11377
6pm-8pm
Exhibition Dates: April 27-May 26, 2013, by appointment & Saturday Noon-4pm
1975 is an exhibition curated by Chuong-Dai Vo, featuring works by Anida Yoeu Ali, Amy Lee Sanford, and LinDa Saphan. Ali’s photographs and video installation recall life in a refugee camp following the fall of the Khmer Rouge; Sanford’s video and photographs share a difficult history, the turmoil of the late 1960s and 1970s, as told in letters written by a father she never knew; and Saphan’s drawings of current-day Phnom Penh take us back to her mother’s memories of living there. This exhibition is presented by TOPAZ ARTS, Inc., with funds from NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs.
Website & details here: http://www.topazarts.org/2013/03/topaz-arts-presents-3-cambodian-women-artists/
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MORE ABOUT THE TOUR
Artist, Writer and Global Agitator Anida Yoeu Ali is embarking on her “Art & Justice Tour” from April 3 – May 6, 2013 in the US and North America. Entitled “Generation Return: Art & Justice Post-Genocide and Post-9/11” Ms. Ali will present and discuss her works and ideas about contemporary justice and its residual effects on the Cambodian American experience.
Anida Yoeu Ali is actively engaged in international dialogues, community activism, and artistic resistance to multiple sites of oppression. She upholds the belief that art is a critical tool for individual and societal transformation. Ms. Ali, born in Cambodia and raised nearly all her life in Chicago, returned to live in Cambodia in 2011 after nearly 3 decades away. She is part of a returning diaspora of artists and thinkers creating narratives of Cambodia beyond war and poverty. Through performance and video works, she will present a body of work which provocatively considers the diasporic past/present contours of the Cambodian American experience.
The artistic portion of the event is imagined to be a multimedia event featuring performances and video screenings by Ms. Ali. The video works include her collaborative media lab, Studio Revolt, and their cinematic works with the Khmer Exiled American community (who constitute the deported diaspora).
Questions provoked through her work include the following:How is art a catalyst for a larger discussion about collective legacy and contemporary justice amongst 1.5-generation Cambodian American communities? What does it mean to be born in Cambodia during a time of catastrophic war and raised in the United States in the aftermath of genocide? What are the central stakes involved for this same generation to return to their “homeland”, both by choice and by force? How is the identity of the twenty-first century Cambodian American being shaped by hip hop, the ongoing “War on Terror,” and ongoing legacies of forced displacement and violence?
More on the Issues presented by Anida Yoeu Ali & Studio Revolt
In the three years, eight months, and twenty days of the Khmer Rouge’s deadly reign over Cambodia, an estimated 1.7 million Cambodians perished as a result of forced labor, execution, starvation, and disease. Despite the passage of more than thirty years, two regime shifts, and a contested U.N. intervention, only one former Khmer Rouge official has been successfully tried and sentenced for crimes against humanity in an international court of law to date.
The United States has emerged as a significant site for the Cambodian diaspora, and is currently home to an estimated 280,000 Cambodian Americans, many of whom are members of the so-known “1.5 Generation.” Comprised of individuals who either “came of age” under the Khmer Rouge or were born in refugee camps, this transnational generation occupies a precarious position. As products of war and as intergenerational witnesses to genocide, 1.5-generation Cambodian American artists have been at the forefront of capturing the traumatic past and pushing for international justice. At the same time, as bodies targeted by the current “War on Terror,” manifest in forced exile via post-9/11 deportation, Cambodian Americans remain a troublingly vulnerable and problematically racialized population. Nearly 400 Cambodian “Americans” have been deported, and another 1600 are slated for deportation.
These contested frames – which bring together “over there” histories and “over here” politics – foreground the “Generation Return” tour of Anida Yoeu Ali’s work which provocatively considers the diasporic past/present contours of the Cambodian American experience.
(Above Contextualizing Text written by Dr. Cathy Schlund-Vials and Anida Yoeu Ali)
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Anida Yoeu Ali (b.1974, Battambang)
Anida Yoeu Ali is an artist whose works span performance, installation, video, poetry, public encounters, and political agitation. She is a first generation Muslim Khmer woman born in Cambodia and raised in Chicago. After residing for over three decades outside of Cambodia, Ali returned to work in Phnom Penh as part of her 2011 U.S. Fulbright Fellowship. Utilizing an interdisciplinary approach to artmaking, her installation and performance works investigate the artistic, spiritual and political collisions of a hybrid transnational identity. From the Faroe Islands to the Bronx, Copenhagen to Ho Chi Minh City, she lectures, exhibits and performs internationally. pioneering work with the critically acclaimed group I Was Born With Two Tongues (1998-2003) is archived with the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Program. Her artistic work has been the recipient of grants from the Rockefeller Foundation, Ford Foundation, the National Endowment of the Arts and the Illinois Arts Council. Anida earned her B.F.A. from University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) and an M.F.A. in from School of the Art Institute Chicago. She is a collaborative partner with Studio Revolt, an independent artist run media lab in Phnom Penh, Cambodia where she currently resides. Studio Revolt’s short film about Cambodian American deportation, My Asian Americana (2011), won the public vote for the White House What’s Your Story Video Challenge but was dismissed by contest organizers. Anida continues to make art and raise her family in Phnom Penh, a city once home to her father. Website
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Studio Revolt (Chicago/Phnom Penh/Osaka)
Studio Revolt is an independent artist run media lab that produces films, videos, installations and performance projects in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The media lab serves as a collaborative space for both performance artist Anida Yoeu Ali and filmmaker Masahiro Sugano. Through his films, Sugano reconsiders cultural and political norms that have constricted our imagination and dulled our senses. Ali performs unapologetic poems and declarations of the self beyond fixed identities and borders. Together their works open up possibilities for people to exist outside of conventional narratives. Studio Revolt takes it a step further by urging viewers to become participants and stake their claim in this world.
Since their arrival in 2011, Studio Revolt has become a prominent presence in the contemporary arts scene of Phnom Penh showcasing their works in public screenings, exhibitions, and public art projects. The studio selected exiled poet Kosal Khiev as their first artist-in-residence in 2011 with the hopes of garnering international attention on his story through their collaborative media projects. In 2012, “Why I Write” featuring the spoken word performance of Kosal Khiev was awarded “Best Poem Performance on Film” at the Berlin Zebra Poetry Film Festival.
Studio Revolt’s first collaboration, “1700% Project: Mistaken For Muslim (2010),” a film about hate crimes against Muslims after 9/11, was the grand prize recipient for LinkTV’s One Chicago One Nation online film competition. The following year their short film “My Asian Americana (2011)” addressing the issue of Cambodian American deportations won the popular public vote in a White House competition but failed to be rewarded as promised by contest organizers. Studio Revolt is the 2012 inaugural artist-in-residence at Teo + Namfah Gallery in Phnom Penh. The studio is currently working on a feature length documentary film, launching a web series on the issue of deportations, traveling to and staging a performance at the former site of Kao-I-Dang refugee camp, and collaborating on a new short film about classical Cambodian dance with Khmer Arts.
Relevant Links to Anida Yoeu Ali’s work:
“1700% Project” (multi-disciplinary project on hate crimes against Muslims post-9/11): http://1700percentproject.wordpress.com/
“1700% Project: Mistaken for Muslim” spoken word video: http://vimeo.com/11380785#at=0
“Living Memory/Living Absence” one-woman spoken word theater performance: http://vimeo.com/6913974
“My Asian Americana” – Video entered to White House Contest about Deportations: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=YQxtfCz4B1o
“Return to Sender” – Video response to White House Contest dismissal: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Bc9oWFvUQs
Champions of Change, too (a public performance + response to the White House): http://studio-revolt.com/?p=764
“Who’s Got Us” feminist spoken word video http://vimeo.com/34972858#at=0
Studio Revolt’s Trailer for “Cambodian Son” (not yet completed but in process)
We will create a trailer for “Cambodian Son” our current documentary project about poet Kosal Khiev’s first year free from US incarceration but deported to Cambodia and left to fend for himself with no documents and having never been to Cambodia before.
“The Space Between Inside/Outside” solo exhibition catalog 2012-2013:
http://javaarts.org/javaarts-is-proud-to-announce-the-electronic-publication-of-the-catalogue-for-its-inaugural-artist-in-residence-program-with-artist-anida-yoeu-ali/
“The Buddhist Bug Project” – performance project:
http://lejournaldelaphotographie.com/entries/9015/singapore-international-photography-festival
Relevant Press Links/Reviews:
LA Times (04/23/12) “Filmmakers ‘appalled’ by process in White House video contest”
Colorlines (04/11/12) “Deportation Video Wins White House Contest, But Disappears”
Phnom Penh Post (11/09/12) “Phnom Penh disconnect: A refugee’s poetic journey”
(Booking details available upon request)
