Against Agent Orange: The Fight Continues, 2023

On Saturday, 21 January 2023, to celebrate the Tết 2023 (Vietnamese New Year), hany tea (DAMN*), and Collectif Vietnam Dioxine (CVD) presented an exhibition on Agent Orange by illustrator Trâm-Anh, accompanied by the screening of Thuy Tiên Ho and Laurent Lindebring’s movie “Agent Orange, a Time Bomb” (57mins). The event happened at the project space with the rubbles of old palaces in Berlin-Kreuzberg.

Reading Group/ Open Discussions, 2020 

Poster Design by
Don Hoang

Initiated by
Thao in conservation with Akiko, Chi, Esra, Han, hany tea, Huyen, Jesse, Lien, Litchi Ly, Nam, Promona, Ragil, Rosalia, Vanessa, Vicky, Sarnt, Sina, Sophya, Thao N., Trang

Pilot session on 21.4.21 was cancelled. 

What happens after we gathered? What happens after the social media storm is over?

The first Open Discussion Series*** Rhythms of a Movement is a space where we can engage with topics surrounding political community organizing aesthetically, bodily and in mediated discussions in monthly meet ups online/offline.

Incomplete reading recommendations will be provided, as well as theory and other resources that have been helpful in understanding processes and ideas regarding concepts of community, activism, identity and visibility.
However, each session will be moderated and put together by individuals who can speak from experience rather than theory.

Thoughts, arts, misunderstandings, mistakes,  questions will be accumulated in a collaborative time-based zine created during the sessions. Whether the zines will accessible for everyone will be decided collectively.

Upcoming Topics, Working Titles
First Meeting: Cancelled

#1: On Reponsibility
#2: What is Activism? - Radicality, Honesty and Finding our Position in the Revolution
#3: Community - Cancel Culture, Woke Competition, Love & Rage Beyond Identities?
#4: The Quest of a Unifying Identity - What is so political about "German Asian?", "Anti-Strategic Essentialism", the right to not be identified
#5: Diasporas - Acknowledging the different experiences of (South/South East/East) Asian diasporas within different interectionalities.
#6: Healing - Internalized Racism, Anti-Asian Racism
#7: Model Minority & other forms of divisions - 7.1. Model Minority, 7.2. anti-Blackness, 7.3. generational conflicts & 7.4. classism
#8: Adapting/Co-Opting/ Experimenting - BIPOC, LGBTQI*, working class liberation movements in the US
#9: Adapting/Co-Opting/ Experimenting - Liberation movements in South/Southeast/East Asia
#10: Adapting/Co-Opting/ Experimenting - Liberation movements in Germany
#11: To Be Seen (by them) - Mainstream visibility in film and & the cultural landscape
#12: To Be Seen (by us) - Personality Cult, Social Media, Empowerment, Credits & Mistrust
#13: New Structures, New Archives, New...? - Intertwining Realities, Presents, Futures, Agendas
#14: Moving on Together Alone: how, when, and why "we" come together and part ways again
#15: Activism of Care - Life "Beyond", Intertwined and dedicated to Activism