From July 15 to August 5,  the Super Boat People collective takes over La Centrale!

For the occasion, the collective proposes a three-part program. From July 15 to 26, a research-creation residency will host seven artists of Cambodian, Laotian, and Vietnamese origin. On August 4, there will be a half-day of reflection and discussion on what the memory of war means and will act as a commemoration for the Second Indochina War (also known as the Vietnam War), almost 50 years later.

Super Boat People will then offer the space to other Asian collectives; on July 18 at 5:30 PM, join us at La Centrale for the launch of the "Guide de retour aux origines," written by the Soft Gong Collective. On July 31 (time TBC), the Pan-Asian Collective will organize a zine workshop.

Registrations coming soon!

Super Boat People thanks the Conseil des arts de Montréal for its financial support.

ARTISTS IN RESIDENCY

Bryan Beyung is a visual artist, born in Montreal to a Chinese-Cambodian family. His artistic approach would fall under the autoethnographic journey. He mainly addresses diasporic heritage by creating works based on memories, ideas and images related to this experience. His work can be seen in the United States, Canada, Haïti, France, Morocco and Cambodia.

Celine Do is a 27 year-old Canadian Vietnamese self-taught painter turned filmmaker based in Montreal. At the age of 22, they decided to take a “sabbatical” from their studies at the John Molson School of Business (unbeknownst to their parents) to pursue their passion for the arts and document the entire journey. “Crazy Broke Asian” is the resulting (in the making) docuseries of that endeavor and their debut work.

My-Van Dam is a multidisciplinary artist based in Tiohtiá: ke / Mooniyang / Montréal. She graduated from the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) in visual and media arts and is a member of the CODE BLANC collective alongside artist Stanley Février and Maryam Izadifard. Her artistic practice focuses on the transmission of intergenerational trauma and its multiple physical and psychological impacts. She also explores body memory and the healing processes that foster personal and collective emancipation from oppressive systems. Her current research is rooted in the exploration of somatic theories and practices to propose a vision of care that is interdependent and collaborative. Spaces where My-Van has recently exhibited include: the Centre Culturel George Vanier (2024) as part of the POST-INVISIBLE biennial, the Rad Hourani Foundation (2021), Place-des-arts de Montréal (2021), Galerie Projet Casa (2022) and the Art Souterrain festival (2022). She was the recipient of a residency at the SBC galerie d'art contemporain (2023).

Quang Hai Nguyen is a Vietnamese photographer born and based in Tiohtiá:ke/Mooniyang/Montreal who explores the notion of memories, silence, and the invisible emotional barriers between intergenerational diasporic Vietnamese communities. They obtained a college diploma in photography at Cégep du Vieux Montréal and recently obtained their BFA in Photography at Concordia University. Their work has been presented in group exhibitions such as the 5th edition of Artch, the 27th edition of Festival Accès Asie, and the annual exhibition at the FOFA Gallery.

Sorya Nguon-Bélisle (she/they) is a therapist practicing various healing methods. Using the lenses of body work, sound therapy, writing and photography, she is particularly interested in the impact of identity and memory on the body and mind. Aiming to make visible what is often invisible, her practices honor change and the alchemy of individual and global transitions.

Tam Khoa Vu is an artist based in Tio'tia:ke / Montréal. His work challenges common representations and depictions of Vietnamese and Vietnamese-Canadian identity, while playfully opening up spaces of abundance, possibility, and nuance. Using various visual and digital art forms, his practice explores themes of production, manufacturing, power, representation, and identity, probing the nuances of the “third space” of diasporic experience between Vietnam and Canada. Notable presentations of the artist’s works include: Montréal, arts interculturels (MAI), Montréal, CA (2024); OBORO New Media Lab, Montréal, CA (2023); ARTCH Emerging Artists Exhibition, Montréal, CA (2021). He is currently preparing to present his second solo exhibition in 2024 at Caravanserail (Rimouski, CA). In 2017, he completed a B.F.A in Design and Computation Arts at Concordia University.

Timothe Born has been a practicing artist in Montreal for the past 5 years and has learned a bit about how to work in this field as a profession. His art practice explores subject matters such as his personal culture and heritage being Canadian, Quebecois and Cambodian. Timothe’s intersectional identity is a subject that he feels very drawn to as a way to share his experiences growing up in an immigrant neighborhood in Montreal. Alienated by his environment and his parents history, the passion for the arts is one that he has been dissuaded against pursuing. Timothe Born generally works on a larger scale, typically on paper or raw canvas with material such as oil and dry pastel, paint and airbrush. He is very dedicated to his practice and is always experimenting with mediums as a way to express himself and discover more about his identity. After taking a break from college and leading up to the pandemic, he was able to focus more time and energy into his artwork. Having no educational background in painting or drawing, he considers himself a self-taught artist. Timothe Born has shown works at multiple galleries throughout Montreal, such as Aussenwelt, Gallery Gora, WIP and Atelier Jean Brillant.