Video that includes the creation of a gong made from 3000 bullet casings by Stephanie Mercedes, to represent 1/1000 of the estimated 3 million lives lost during the conflict in Southeast Asia. Movements by Antonius Bui, story by Trần Văn Tâm, and poetry by Keva...
Memories and objects that children of war are forced to forgo when they become refugees....
Narrative of our obligations to the dead, ghost stories, and intergenerational trauma. ...
Mixture of Vietnamese and American elements. ...
This map illustrates my father's journey to America....
A recreation of the only food my interviewee brought with him when he fled Vietnam; homemade peanut-filled mochi balls. He ate one and gave the rest away to others on the boat. This was the start to how he was going to make a living...
I brought stones to be placed on the mourning white cloth, and wrote Việt pronouns/familial terms on the stones (like con, em, chị, anh, cô, chú, bác, etc.) as a way to reflect on how Viet culture understands the terms "you" and "I" to be...
Kim Tran sings a Vietnamese folksong "Cò Lả" accompanied by a bronze gong. The song's lyrics are about a flying crane going over green fields while missing/remembering (nhớ) home. [video width="1280" height="720" mp4="https://missingpieceproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/2019-07-15_5d2cf61f2deee_CoLa.mp4"][/video]...
A "Passport" created by Alicia Phang that shows how her parents used their diverse, mixed heritage of Chinese, Vietnamese, and Khmer identities as a strategy for survival at different times and locations. ...