Trịnh Thị Minh Hà

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Trịnh Thị Minh Hà

Trịnh Thị Minh Hà (* 1952 in Hanoi , Vietnam ) is a post-colonial difference theorist, composer and filmmaker .

Life

Born in Vietnam, Trinh immigrated to the United States in 1970 after studying in Vietnam and the Philippines. She studied composition , ethnomusicology and French literature at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, where she received her MFA and Ph.D. degrees. She currently serves as Chancellor's Distinguished Professor of Women's Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and Associate Professor of Cinema at San Francisco State University. She has taught at Harvard and Smith Universities, the University of Illinois, and the Senegalese National Conservatory of Music.

research

As a difference theorist, she became a. a. known for her book Women, Native, Other (1989). There she investigates the “question of identity as a paradigm of a western binary logic of domination”. After that, “ identity is formed on the basis of an essentialization of difference ”.

Books

  • Un art sans œuvre, ou, l'anonymat dans les arts contemporains (International Book Publishers, Inc., 1981)
  • African Spaces - Designs for Living in Upper Volta (With Jean-Paul Bourdier, Holmes & Meier 1985)
  • En minuscules (book of poems, Edition Le Meridien 1987)
  • Woman, Native, Other. Writing postcoloniality and feminism (Indiana University Press 1989)
  • Out There: Marginalization in Contemporary Culture (Edited with Cornel West, R. Ferguson and M. Gever. New York: New Museum of Contemporary Art and MIT Press, 1990)
  • When the Moon Waxes Red. Representation, gender and cultural politics (Routledge 1991)
  • Framer Framed (Routledge 1992)
  • Texts, films, conversations. Edited by Hedwig Saxenhuber , Madeleine Bernstorff. Art Association Munich u. a., Munich / Vienna / Berlin 1995.
  • Drawn from African Dwellings (Indiana University Press 1996) with Jean-Paul Bourdier
  • The Absolute Search for Meaning (1993). Translated by Mo Beyerle, Eva Hohenberger. In: Images of the Real. Texts on the theory of documentary film. Edited by Eva Hohenberger. Vorwerk 8, Berlin 1998, pp. 304–326.
  • Cinema Interval (Routledge 1999)
  • The Digital Film Event (Routledge 2005)
  • Woman · Native · Other. Post-colonialism and feminism writing. From the American by Kathrina Menke. Edited and with an introduction by Anna Babka, with the collaboration of Matthias Schmidt. Turia & Kant, Vienna 2010.

Exhibitions

  • 2017-2018: That, around which the universe revolves: On Rhythmanalysis of Memory, Times, Bodies in Space, group exhibition, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin.

Awards (selection)

  • 1990: Honorary Doctorate from Oberlin College
  • 1991: Maya Deren National Independent Filmmaker Award from the American Film Festival
  • 1992: Best Experimental Feature Documentary at the Athens International Film Festival for Shoot for the contents
  • 1992: The jury's Best Cinematography Award at the Sundance Film Festival for Shoot for the contents
  • 2002: Retrospective at Documenta11 in Kassel
  • 2006: Annual Achievement Award from the College Art Association's Committee on Women in the Arts
  • 2006: Trailblazer Award from the MIPDOC conference at the Cannes International Documentary Film Event
  • 2007: Honorary Doctorate from California College of Arts
  • 2012: Critics Choice Book Award from the American Educational Studies Association for Elsewhere Within Here
  • 2012: The Lifetime Achievement Award from the Women's Caucus for Art
  • 2014: The Wild Dreamer Lifetime Achievement Award of the Subversive Festival Zagreb
  • 2016: The Toban Faculty Fellowship at UC Berkeley

literature

  • Herman Rapaport: Deconstruction's Other: Trinh T. Minh-ha and Jacques Derrida. In: Diacritics 25.2 (Summer 1995), pp. 98-113.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Trinh T. Minh-ha page on Vietnamlit.org.
  2. ^ Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodriguez: Representation, Subalternity and Postcolonial Criticism. In: Hito Steyerl, Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez (ed.): Does the subaltern speak German? Migration and Post-Colonial Criticism. Unrast, Münster 2003, ISBN 3-89771-425-6 , p. 27.
  3. ^ That, Around Which The Universe Revolves. Retrieved November 30, 2019 .
  4. ^ Documenta11 - Retrospective - documenta. Retrieved November 6, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Awards for Distinction | Programs | CAA. Retrieved November 6, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Trịnh Thị Minh Hà
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Trinh T. Minh-ha
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Vietnamese-US post-colonial difference theorist, composer and filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanoi