KRUIJSWIJK, Léon ; FRANKEN, Linda
Sung Tieu: 1992, 2025

In this publication, the Vietnamese-German artist Sung Tieu analyses the effects of the fall of the Berlin Wall on Vietnamese contract workers in the GDR and migrants such as herself. In her research-driven artistic practice, Sung Tieu examines the inextricable tensions between individual lived experiences and the overarching mechanisms of systemic regulation, questioning the hidden structural logics that shape categories of legality and illegality, inclusion and exclusion. In this publication, the recipient of the Schering Stiftung Award for Artistic Research 2024 investigates, through a series of newly commissioned works, how the political and social upheavals of the fall of the Berlin Wall, along with the pervasive racialised structures and discrimination of that era, have impacted the identities, roles, and social networks of the Vietnamese community in Germany-and continue to shape them to this day. [publisher's note]

Published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2025
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