ຂອບໃຈ. cảm ơn. ua tsaug. អរគុណ. thank you for listening.

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Recorded October 27th 2021. Explicit language was permitted for each Rad Café conversation. We recommend playing the podcast around 1.3x speed and higher if your podcast streaming app permits, as you may be more comfortable listening to information at a higher speed when considering the often slower pace of recorded conversation like this one.

You are listening to Tri's conversation with Rad Café participant, HC Huỳnh (they/them pronouns). HC is an artist and arts administrator with a demonstrated history of working in the arts nonprofit sector in New York City. You can find more about HC at their website, hcthuynh.com.

In this conversation, HC and Tri start off talking about their astrology placements and the hard feelings and frustrations that guided Tri's design of Rad Café. Then, HC and Tri move into expanding on their project research topic regarding Vietnam state relations to building nationhood and viability as a player in the global economy via art markets, the role of arts education in relation to socio-economic classes in urban Vietnamese settings, and asking and discussing many of the questions below you can hear our thoughts on by playing this podcast conversation:

• In the government’s attempt to globalize the art market in Vietnam, it resulted in the split of “authentic art” and “rice paddy art”. In this context, what is the real art in Vietnam?
• Is it meant to serve and represent the people or is it something that is a privilege? Should it be hegemonic privilege or class privilege?
  • Due to the lack of education and apathetic nature towards the arts, who is the arts really serving?
• Many of the developments in the arts are influences brought in beyond Vietnam such as artists studying abroad and arts professionals from other countries coming in to open galleries, curate exhibitions, etc. Is the sense of Vietnamese identity lost in the translation and cross-exchanges or is it an enhancement to arts? Is this a form of self-colonization?
• Are there other similar events/experiences like what is happening in Vietnam in other countries in Southeast Asia? How is globalization affecting the arts and is this a hindrance to cultural development?

Cảm ơn, HC, for your initiative-taking vigor and program design contributions to Rad Café. I hope you take full advantage of your expanded travel plans through your new job and keep that Capricorn drive as you extend arts education to more people who would gain the most value from it.

Please send any inquiries regarding Rad Café to Tri (he/all pronouns) at [email protected] or connect via Instagram @tritactoe. Send inquiries regarding The SEAD Project to [email protected].