— Carrying the foreign home

In Vietnamese culture, water and soil make up a country. "Đất" means soil, "Nước" means water — together, "Đất Nước" means 'country'.

Solo military drills, socialist symbols, and physical metaphors are reinterpreted to consider how inherited ideology shapes the body and mind, and what remains when the body is carried across borders and into new places. Chung Nguyen explores how homeland, memory and identity come to be carried and collectively embodied.

Centring Vietnamese-Australian diasporic voices, Fluid Memories navigates the entanglements between personal and political histories of body and place through the lens of post-war Vietnam.

Situated at the intersection of dance, video installation, sound, and participatory practice, Fluid Memories invites audiences into an embodied encounter with migration, memory and belonging.

Lead artist, Choreographer and Performer Chung Nguyen

Video James Nguyen, Chung Nguyen

Visual artist & Masks James Nguyen

Sound composer Carolyn Schofield (aka. Fia Fiell)\

Participatory engagement advisor Gav Barbey

Dramaturge How Ngean Lim

Producer Anna McDermott

Lighting designer Alex Nguyen

Red scarf Social Studio

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body. Fluid Memories has also been supported by Dancehouse through the Independent Choreographers Program, Temperance Hall’s Front Studio Residency Program, LGI and made possible by WXYZ Studios. Chung would like to thank Auspicious Arts Projects, Dan Costin, Arie Rain Glorie, Renée Copraij and Priya Srinivasan.

Contact the host of Fluid Memories — Chung Nguyen

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