Community
August 7, 2017
THE ASIAN REPORTER n Page 11
“Teardrops that Wound” exhibit in
Seattle pulls back the rhetoric of war
COMMUNITY
CALENDAR
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Cooking class: Vietnamese salad rolls
Aug 20, 10am-1:30pm, West Linn Adult Community Center
(1180 Rosemont Rd, West Linn, Ore.). Discover the ins and outs of
making Vietnamese salad rolls at a class taught by
Indonesia-born chef Surja Tjahaja. Participants learn to make
Vietnamese salad rolls with barbeque chicken and shrimp as well
as a traditional marinade using galangal and lemongrass. Lunch
is included. For info, or to register, call (503) 557-4700 or visit
<www.westlinnoregon.gov>.
Sunday Parkways: Outer N.E. Portland
Aug 20, 11am-4pm, Knott, Hazelwood Hydro, Thompson, and
East Holladay Parks (Northeast Portland). Walk, bike, roller-
blade, skateboard, and more through outer northeast Portland
neighborhoods and parks without motor traffic during a Sunday
Parkways event. Entertainment and activities take place in the
parks and along the two-way, 6.4-mile route, which has no start
or finish. For info, call (503) 823-7599 or visit <www.portland
sundayparkways.org>.
Eclipse pinhole-viewer craft
Aug 20, 1:30-2:30pm, Hillsboro Brookwood Library (2850 NE
Brookwood Pkwy, Hillsboro, Ore.). Use ordinary household
materials to build a pinhole viewer to safely observe the solar
eclipse on August 21. Materials and directions for different types
of viewers are provided. For info, call (503) 615-6500 or visit
<www.hillsboro-oregon.gov/departments/library>.
OMSI partial solar eclipse viewing party
Aug 21, 8am-noon, Oregon Museum of Science & Industry,
Front Plaza (1945 SE Water Ave, Portland). Enjoy a free partial
solar eclipse viewing party featuring a celestial show, science
activities, and an opportunity to purchase eclipse-viewing
glasses. For info, call (503) 797-4000 or visit <www.omsi.edu>.
Solar eclipse viewing at
Washington County libraries
Aug 21, 9-11am; 9-11am, Hillsboro Shute Park Library, Plaza
(775 SE 10th Ave, Hillsboro, Ore.); 9:45-10:30am, Beaverton City
Library, South Lawn (12375 SW Fifth St, Beaverton, Ore.);
10am, Tualatin Public Library (18878 SW Martinazzi Ave,
Tualatin, Ore.) & West Slope Community Library (3678 SW 78th
Ave, Portland). Watch the solar eclipse at various Washington
County libraries. Viewing glasses are provided. The Hillsboro,
Tualatin, and West Slope events are for all ages, while the
Beaverton event is intended for children between four and 12
years old with an accompanying adult. To register for the Beaver-
ton event (required), call (503) 350-3600 or visit <www.beaverton
library.org/Register>. For info, call (503) 615-6500 (Hillsboro),
(503) 644-2197 (Beaverton), (503) 691-3074 (Tualatin), or (503)
292-6416 (West Slope), or visit <www.wccls.org>.
“Summer Picnic in the Park”
Aug 27, noon-5pm, Oaks Park (7805 SE Oaks Park Way, near
the east end of the Sellwood Bridge, Portland). Attend the
“Summer Picnic in the Park” event of Persia House, a nonprofit,
nonpolitical organization for the public benefit. The gatherings
feature activities, food, and more. Attendees are asked to bring a
dish to share at the free event. For info, call (503) 725-5214.
“Teardrops that Wound,” a new exhibit on view at the
Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American
Experience in Seattle, interrogates the narrative of war
through a peculiar lens. Guest curator SuJ’n Chon created
the display by featuring work from contemporary Asian
Pacific American artists who pull back the rhetoric of war
to expose its absurdity.
The exhibition’s title is drawn from a passage in Phong
Nguyen’s novel Pages from the Textbook of Alternate
History: “… with one fatal drop of this teardrop-shaped
steel structure, I remember thinking, man will finally
have wounded god.”
The link between the mundane and the devastating in
the title echoes throughout the pieces on display. A
multimedia installation by Sarah and Phong Nguyen
imagines a world where the “Little Boy” bomb didn’t
detonate. Inspired by “Einstein Saves Hiroshima,” a story
from Phong’s Pages novel, Sarah’s “Break into Blossom”
sculpture lays half sunken into the earth, covered in moss
and fallen cherry blossoms.
Yukiyo Kawano transforms “Little Boy” into a delicate
shell sewn with fragile materials, while “Bombs Away”
and “Tactical Decision Games” are a reexamination of the
tools of war by Thomas Dang, an artist who is a
non-commissioned officer in the U.S. Marines and
recently returned from deployment. Patrick Nagatani’s
“Nuclear Enchantment” photographic series investigates
the atomic legacy of the west, wryly layering atomic
activity over enchanting landscapes and innocent human
life, or in some cases, vice versa — the juxtaposition
jarring even the most cynical of viewers. Noa Batle’s
“Domestic Soldiers,” funded in part by a successful
Kickstarter campaign in 2014, displays toy servicemen
armed with vacuum cleaners and flowerpots rather than
guns and grenades.
The featured artists in “Teardrops that Wound” span
early to late in their careers. Batle is an undergraduate
studying art at the University of California, Los Angeles
(UCLA) while Nagatani is an emeritus professor at the
University of New Mexico, where he retired in 2007. The
exhibit also spans time, responding to events and
consequences from the bombing of Hiroshima and
Nagasaki through to present day.
“When we began working on this show 18 months ago,
we had no idea how painfully relevant it would turn out to
be,” said Chon.
“Teardrops that Wound” is on view through May 20,
2018 at the Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific
American Experience, located at 719 South King Street in
Seattle. To learn more, call (206) 623-5124 or visit <www.
wingluke.org>.
TEARDROPS THAT WOUND. “Teardrops that Wound,” a new
exhibit on view in Seattle through May 20, 2018, interrogates the narra-
tive of war through a peculiar lens. Pictured is “Bombs Away” (detail), a
2015 piece by Thomas Dang. (Photo/Walter Tuai)
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