Catalogue for two exhibitions held at Centre A (Vancouver): "Charlie don’t surf! / 4 Vietnamese American Artists" from April 9 to May 21, 2005 and "Kim Huynh: Inflected Signs" from February 25 to April 2, 2005.

'This exhibition and the accompanying essays featured in this catalogue also form a wayward archive, an attempt to map complex, multilayered socio-political and individual histories and diasporic creative practices which stem from those histories. Thirty years after the Fall of Saigon in Vietnam, and a decade after the flowering and subsequent proclaimed failure of multiculturalism and identity politics in the USA, "Charlie don’t surf!: 4 Vietnamese American Artists" examines contemporary Vietnamese American visual artists whose work and subjectivity is affected by these socio-political intersections.'

(Abstract from essay by Viet Le)

Thirty years after The Fall of Saigon in Vietnam, and a decade after the flowering and subsequent proclaimed failure of multiculturalism and identity politics in the United States, this exhibition highlights contemporary Vietnamese American visual artists whose work and subjectivity is affected by these socio-political intersections. Through experimental video, abstract painting, and photography, these multi-generational artists’ seemingly disparate practices explore memory, failure, sexuality, trauma, and the ambivalent politics of cultural difference. Featured artists Include Dinh Q. Le, Nguyen Tan Hoang, Ann Phong, Tran T. Kim-Trang and curated by Alice Ming Wai Jim and Viet Le.'