Trinh T. Minh-ha is our guest

Trinh T. Minh-ha is a theorist, an author, a composer and a filmmaker. She grew up in Vietnam and went to the US to study in 1970. She later taught music in Dakar, Senegal, and today she is Professor for Women's Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She also teaches film in San Francisco. Since 1982, she has been making films that are multi-voiced reflections about representation, power relations and hybrid identities – in the US, West Africa, Vietnam, Japan and China. Like her texts, these play an important role in postcolonial and feminist discourse. Her films defy conventional categorization and pigeonholing. Located at the intersection between documentary, fiction and experimental film, they employ various narrative forms, examine the function and ideology of language, subvert dominant models of representation and have a multi-perspective, non-hierarchical viewpoint.

We are glad to welcome Trinh T. Minh-ha to Arsenal between 2. and 4. June, as well as to provide viewers with the rare chance of seeing all seven of her films. We would also like to point out that "Asiatische Deutsche. Vietnamesische Diaspora and Beyond", which includes a paper by Trinh T. Minh, will be presented at HBC Berlin on 21. June.