Book Recommendation

Colonialism Experienced:
Vietnamese Writings on Colonialism 1900-1931

(translated into English)
ISBN 0472067125
by Truong Buu Lam
University of Michigan Press c2000

Recent Research Trip

Hey A-17thP, sorry there has been no contact but once I stopped blogging the fear set in.
I've recently returned from a research trip to the north/west of Vic and nearby N.S.W connecting with nature and the local indigenous community with artist Linda Studena and a Czech writer Blanka. For me the journey was about picking up some new survival tips and recording the differing landscape, which seemed ever changing and quite frightening at times when your an inexperienced 4x4 driver.
Interesting the search into a true-ism of change being a constant and adjusting to an evolution in fast-forward. Observing things that may save my life, not exactly fearing but a human instinct to survive. this feeling of preparation for something whether it be natural or human I don't know, a residue of living the Vietnam War vicariously and not or feeling a connection to the land and sensing a revolution from below.
I feel like I want to dig a hole and make a shelter to hide out in, make it everything proof, buy some seeds and fuck off. I just watched Denton interview Helen Thomas and am comforted by an old school US political journalist's truths on the inhumaness of todays world, and I thought passivity should be a crime.
I'm posting a pic of Rufus River, a massacre site in outback Vic, 30 people killed for stealing sheep by Charles Sturts men. The remains have been covered and preserved in that area and show signs of particuly brutal deaths.
Have a look at Connected By Light on iview about media-artist Lynette Wallworth. km

more vietnamese anti communist whinging

no matter your subject, you never out run em!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWq_xWb4Ooc&

a nice youtube video on Vietnam

scroll and read the comments.

but I guess you can't please everyone

must read! north korean artists banned from visiting Australia

http://www.theage.com.au/national/north-korean-artists-not-welcome-their-propaganda-is-20091210-km94.html

Age Paper

View of Hanoi from a B-52

New work for Gallery 4a

two sheets of paper, one rice paper and ink, the top layer is tracing paper ink and acrylic

"Looking at the lives of my birth parents through the narratives of Vietnamese refugees"

Translations-Generations

Gift from Vietnam

I received a gift from Vietnam today, and just wanted to share it with you.