"In Tender Revolutions/Yellow Songs, personal post-war and diasporic herstories are revisited by means of the Vietnamese creation myth, a multi-part origin story told at the outset by Dao, and further narrated by her two poet-collaborators Barbara Tran and Hoa Nguyen, fellow members of She Who Has No Master(s). Co-founded by Dao, this collective of Vietnamese womxn and nonbinary writers of the Vietnamese diaspora "engage in collaborative, polyvocal, and hybrid-poetic works to enact a politics of connection across diasporic boundaries.""
"Dressed in unique yellow creations (by artist mai ide), the performers stood on a darkened stage, which centered a vertical yellow silk-like banner, flanked by two video projection screens, an installation co-designed by Dao with artist-curator Marcelo Fontana. These symbolic yellow forms invoked and sought to reclaim the perceived racial stereotype of Asian women and "the Asian feminine body as reflection/catalyst/consort," as the TBA handbook had summarized."
Dao Strom immigrated from Vietnam to the U.S. after the war and blends poetry, music, and visual art to explore diasporic memory and trauma. Tender Revolutions/Yellow Songs revisits personal post-war herstories through the Vietnamese creation myth, with narration by Barbara Tran and Hoa Nguyen and collaborative performance from She Who Has No Master(s). Performers wore yellow creations by mai ide and performed on a darkened stage centered by a vertical yellow silk banner and flanked by video projections in an installation co-designed with Marcelo Fontana. The work reclaims yellow symbolism, interrogates racialized stereotypes of Asian femininity, and enacts a politics of diasporic connection.
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