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Prof.ⁱⁿ Dr.ⁱⁿ Trinh T. Minh-ha, University of California, Berkeley

“Miles of Strangeness“

Abstract

“What is it that makes both talks and silences stained with shame? Sometimes the mind freezes and the heart goes on fasting: name, nation, identity, citizenship disappear. With every step, the world comes to the walker, and all around, on the immense screen of life, every event speaks." In the dense jungle of events, doings, and happenings, history comes in interrelated fragments to be sniffed out, tracked, swallowed, held on, or vomited while walking for survival. The spirit of the walk leads the writer-researcher to a whole tradition of independent walkers in ancient Asia, at the same time as it provides her with a link to struggles around the world, more specifically to the transnational struggles of women in the U.S., Argentina, Mexico, and China.

Short Biography

Trinh T. Minh-ha is an independent filmmaker, writer, composer and feminist, post-colonial theorist. Her work, which includes numerous books, films and art installations, has received world-wide acclaim and prestigious awards. Before joining the University of California (Berkeley) as Professor of Gender & Women's Studies and of Rhetoric (Film), she taught at universities in Dakar, Tokyo and the US such as Cornell and Harvard. Her most recent book is Elsewhere, Within Here. Immigration, Refugeeism and The Boundary Event (2010) and a classic book of hers, Woman, Native, Other has just been published in German translation "Postkolonialität und Feminismus schreiben" (Turia + Kant, 2010).

Further information: http://www.trinhminh-ha.com/

Book Publications

• Trinh T. Minh-ha (2010): Elsewhere, Within Here: Immigration, Refugeeism and the Boundary Event (Routledge)
• Trinh T. Minh-ha (2010):  German edition: "Woman . Native . Other - Postkolonialität und Feminismus schreiben." Edited and introduced by Anna Babka. Translated by Kathrina Menke. turia & kant
• Trinh T. Minh-ha (2005): The Digital Film Event (Routledge)
• Trinh T. Minh-ha (1999): Cinema Interval (Routledge)
• Trinh T. Minh-ha (1996): Drawn from African Dwellings (Indiana University Press) with Jean-Paul Bourdier
• Trinh T. Minh-ha (1992): Framer Framed (Routledge)
• Trinh T. Minh-ha (1991): When the Moon Waxes Red. Representation, gender and cultural politics (Routledge)
• Trinh T. Minh-ha: (1990) Out There: Marginalisation in Contemporary Culture (co-editor with Cornel West, R. Ferguson & M. Gever. New York: New Museum of Contemporary Art and M.I.T. Press,)
• Trinh T. Minh-ha (1989): Woman, Native, Other. Writing postcoloniality and feminism (Indiana University Press)
• Trinh T. Minh-ha (1987): En minuscules (book of poems, Edition Le Meridien)
• Trinh T. Minh-ha (1985): African Spaces - Designs for Living in Upper Volta (in coll. with Jean-Paul Bourdier, Holmes & Meier)
• Trinh T. Minh-ha (1981): Un art sans oeuvre, ou, l'anonymat dans les arts contemporains (International Book Publishers, Inc.,)

Films

• Trinh T. Minh-ha: Night Passage (98mins, Digital, 2004) (fiction)
• Trinh T. Minh-ha: The Fourth Dimension (87 mins, Digital, 2001)
• Trinh T. Minh-ha:  A Tale of Love (108 mins, 1995) (fiction)
• Trinh T. Minh-ha:  Shoot for the Contents (102 mins, 1991)
• Trinh T. Minh-ha:  Surname Viet Given Name Nam (108 mins, 1989)
• Trinh T. Minh-ha: Naked Spaces - Living is Round (135 mins, 1985)
• Trinh T. Minh-ha: Reassemblage (40 mins, 1982)

Installations

• The Desert is Watching (in coll. with Jean-Paul Bourdier, 2003, Kyoto Art Biennale)
• Nothing But Ways (in coll. with L. M. Kirby, 1999, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco)
• L’ Autre marche (The Other Walk) In collaboration wth Jean Paul Bourdier, Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, France 9 Juin 2006 -2009

Music

• Poems. Composition for Percussion Ensemble. Premiere by the Univ. of Illinois Percussion Ensemble, Denis Wiziecki, Director. 09 April 1976.
• Four Pieces for Electronic Music. 1975 Performances at the Univ. of Illinois.