Siddharta Perez
Vuth Lyno

8 May 2021
4pm—5.30pm (SGT)

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Unsettled Assignments is an exhibition and workshop by Sidd Perez and Vuth Lyno that debuted at the Singapore International Festival of the Arts in 2017. This project considers the networks of unsettled south-south relations produced through postcolonial conflicts and peacekeeping interventions in Southeast Asia. Children were born in Cambodia in 1993 to African fathers serving in the United Nations peacekeeping troops. After “the fall of Saigon” in 1975, South Vietnamese asylum seekers sought refuge at the Philippine First Asylum Camp, where they were screened, validated and sent to other refugee processing centres in the Philippines, before finally leaving for the U.S. or other countries in the West. Through an installation of archival material and a workshop, Sidd Perez and Vuth Lyno read into the residues left by these foreign military bases and camptowns within the region and track the lives that were made peripatetic by this unresolved history of conflict and peacekeeping. For this panel, Perez will discuss the motivations behind this project and Vuth will discuss 25, a three-channel video that looks at the legacy of the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC), 1991-1992, a UN peacemaking project in the country.

Siddharta Perez is a Curator at NUS Museum, focused on developing exhibitions and programmes around the museum’s South & Southeast Asian Collection. She staged a moving image exhibition speculating on substitutions of scenography and histories in the Philippines and Vietnam during the American wars in the Pacific titled Double Vision (2016) that she enacted into another exhibition called Unsettled Assignments with Lyno Vuth for the Singapore International Festival of the Arts 2017. Her work on consolidating expressions of personal legacies and transnational geopolitical moments also found delivery in a performative lecture "An ongoing register of art in peace and rehabilitation; version 1: Headlands Center for the Arts - Military Histories" in 2019 during her residency at Marin Headlands.

Vuth Lyno (b. 1982, Phnom Penh) is an artist, curator, and co-founding artistic director of Sa Sa Art Projects, an artist-run space in Phnom Penh initiated by Stiev Selapak collective. His artistic and curatorial practices are participatory in nature, exploring communal learning, experimentation, and sharing of multiple voices through exchanges. Vuth holds a Master of Art History from the State University of New York, Binghamton, New York, supported by a Fulbright Fellowship (2013-2015), and a Master of International Development from RMIT University, Melbourne, supported by the Australian Endeavour Award (2008-2009). As an artist, Vuth works with various media including sculpture, photography, sound, light, and video, usually resulting in an installation. He is particularly interested in the agency of human stories, materiality, and how the audience engages with them. His interest intersects micro histories, notions of community, placemaking, and production of social situations. He often involves project participants in the production of meaning of the artwork.