“BuffaloDeer”
James Nguyen
19 Aug → 17 Sept 2016
Let’s sit down and talk. Let’s force a conversation about race. Let’s take turns to record, and face each other. Let’s improvise to see how this plays out.
Let’s also make scarecrows to keep the Buffalo and Deer off our property…
My representations of the migrant experience have increasingly become over-simplified and excruciatingly poetic. This intervention is not just an allegorical fable, or another epic. But by staging a private squabble, maybe there is still a possibility for the Buffalo and Deer to examine the discomfort of their privilege?
James Nguyen is a Sydney-based artist working with visual art, documentary, installation and performance. After completing a Masters of Fine Art at Sydney College of Arts, he undertook a collaborative Fellowship at UnionDocs. This fellowship in was supported by the Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship. James has also been the recipient the Clitheroe Foundation Scholarship at the National Art School and is a PhD candidate at UNSW Art & Design.