Sisavanh Phouthavong
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Oct. 17th-Nov. 15th, 2019:  Rumors of Necessity Asianix,  Tipton Gallery, ETSU, Johnson City, TN, Curated by Alejandro Acierto
Artists: Paul Pak-hing Lee, Richard A. Lou, Hong-An Truong, Emily Hanako Momohara, Sisavanh Phouthavong


Curatorial Statement: I am drawn to positioning Asian and Asian American bodies in relation to conditions of surveillance, militarization, and exclusion in an era of ongoing wars along the US border and abroad. Hinged on the notion of the rumor where contemporary anxieties around difference have often been the result of mis-information, this exhibition draws on contemporary Asian and Asian American artists in the Southern United States and the TN State archive to articulate strategies of the state to enact corporeal control through militarization and exclusion. Foregrounding our contemporary moment where racial profiling Muslim and Latinx communities continue as an ongoing trope of 45's administration, further propelled by broader social anxieties that have amplified white supremacist ideologies, this exhibition works to present alternative forms of embodiment that speak back to historical traumas of militarization and exclusion. 
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  • News
  • Exhibitions
    • 2022 UAG: Sewanee, TN
    • 2022 Bagwell Gallery
    • 2022 Thessaloniki, Greece
    • 2022 Knoxville Museum
    • 2021 Gadsden Museum
    • 2021 KCKCC
    • 2021 Slocumb Gallery ETSU
    • 2020 Minnesota Museum
    • 2020 Asian Arts Initiative
    • 2020 Tinney Contemporary
    • 2019 Tipton Gallery ETSU
    • 2018 Hunter Museum
    • 2018 Lauren Rogers Museum
  • About
    • Resume
    • Reviews & Publications
  • 2D
    • 2021
    • This Land was Made
    • 2020
    • Transparent Voices
    • Quantify Tactical Zone
    • Disillusioned
    • Indirect Traffic
    • 2019 >
      • Unstable
      • Rain 1-20 >
        • Rain 21-40
        • Rain 41-60
        • Rain 61-80
        • Rain 81-100
    • 2018 >
      • Clustered Debris
      • Aftermath
      • Secret War on Laos: UXO
      • Crumbling Facade
      • Secret War Part 2
    • 2017 >
      • Legacies of War
      • Nong Khai
      • Re-Imagined Space
      • Defied Structures
  • 3D
    • 2021 Interminable Suspension 2021
    • 2020 Clustered Bomblets
  • Archive
    • Displacement: Citizenship
    • Evanescent 2016
    • Chicago 2016
    • Deliberate Moments 2016
    • Birds and Insects
    • Bronze
    • Wood
    • Aluminum
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