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514 - Why Being "Mơ Hồ" (Ambiguous) Is an Artist's Greatest Superpower? - Minh H Phan
In this episode, Ken sits down with multidisciplinary conceptual artist Minh H Phan for an expansive, deeply soulful exploration of world-building, performance intervention, and generational memory.
Moving beyond rigid social hierarchies and labels, Minh shares how she uses sculpture, material storytelling, performance, and ritual to illuminate the marginal, unseen stories of the Vietnamese diaspora. From navigating the heavy expectations of Confucian family dynamics to exhibiting installations at UC Davis’s Manetti Shrem Museum and the High Desert Test Sites, Min breaks down her core…
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