I got into a scuffle and broke my right hand, my dominant hand, after the first week of graduate school. Not being able to make drawings or objects and feeling the weight of private school tuition piling up, I returned to performance art to keep myself sane and busy enough to prevent myself from obsessing over how much money I was wasting. Doing little performances in my studio, enacting little actions, like having people break sticks on my cast or using a backscratcher until my back was a wall of red, triggered memories of 1970s performance art and my introduction into postmodernism. I had always been intrigued by the timing of the rise of performance art and its relationship to what was happening in Vietnam. I always saw myself as a direct product of the US war in Vietnam – a long and personal narrative too attached to familial histories to expand upon here.

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由艺术家拍摄

研究生学习第一周后，我陷入了混乱，打断了我的右手，即我的优势手。由于无法制作图纸或物体并感觉到私立学校学费的堆积，我回到了表演艺术领域，以使自己保持理智和忙碌，以防止自己迷恋浪费了多少钱。在我的工作室做些小表演，做些小动作，例如让人们在我的演员上摔断棍棒，或者使用后刮痕器，直到我的背围成一堵墙，这触发了人们对1970年代表演艺术的记忆以及对后现代主义的介绍。表演艺术兴起的时机及其与越南发生的事情之间的关系一直让我着迷。