In this first episode of Art of Interference, we speak with Vietnamese visual artist Thao Nguyen Phan about her video installation Becoming Alluvium. The work centers on a parable on dew and the human follies of controlling nature. It first showed in 2021 and New York Times critic Holland Cotter called it “a beauty.” 

In this episode, we talk about:

• Phan’s career-long preoccupation with the Mekong River, 
• the role of artists in contemporary conversations about climate change,
• and how the effects of technological interventions change people's relation to the water.

We also hear from :

• climate scientist Steve Goodbred about the shifting waterways in Southeast Asia and the effects of rising oceans levels on the Mekong Delta, and from 
• literary scholar Ben Tran about the extent to which Phan's art can serve as a model to live amid the climate emergencies of our present. 

Co-Hosts: Emma Reimers and Lutz Koepnick

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