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Bio
Professor Trinh teaches in the Gender and Women's Studies Department at
the University of California at Berkeley since 1994 and in the Department
of Rhetoric since 1997. She has also taught at Harvard, Smith, Cornell,
San Francisco State University, the University of Illinois, Ochanomizu
University in Japan and the National Conservatory of Music in Senegal.
Originally trained as a musical composer, who received her two Masters
and Ph.D. from University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, Trinh T.
Minh-ha is a world-renowned independent filmmaker and feminist, post-colonial
theorist. She teaches courses that focuses on women's work as related
to cultural politics, post-coloniality, contemporary critical theory
and the arts. The seminars she offers focus on Third cinema, film
theory and aesthetics, the voice in cinema, the autobiographical
voice, critical theory and research, cultural politics and feminist
theory. Aside from the eight books she has published, her work also
includes two large-scale multimedia installations and six feature-length
films that have been honored in twenty seven retrospectives around
the world: Reassemblage (1982), Naked Spaces (1985), Surname Viet
Given Name Nam (1989), Shoot for the Contents (1991), A Tale of
Love (1996), The Fourth Dimension (2001), and Night Passage (2004) .
She is currently at work on a large-scale audio-visual installation for the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris.
Interview
with Trinh Minh-ha
Berkeleyan article on Trinh Minh-ha
Art Work:
Trinh T. Minh-ha and Jean-Paul Bourdier, L'Autre marche (The Other Walk). A large-scale mulit-media installation conceived as a cultural rite of passage and a transformative walk for the 160m-ramp that leads into the new museum of Mankind, Musée du Quai Branly in Paris, France. It unfolds in 19 projected autonomous video sequences with 19 projections of aphorisms in twelve different languages. Open since June 2006.
Books & Video:
Trinh T. Minh-ha, "Desert Wash" (Text) and Bodies of the Desert (20-min Digital video) in Bodyscapes (Book of Photography) by Jean-Paul Bourdier, San Rafael, California: Earth Aware Editions, 2007.
Jean-Paul Bourdier and Trinh Minh-ha, Habiter un monde (on West African architectures). Paris, France: Editions Alternatives, 2006.
Areas of Interest
Postcolonial theory
Film theory and aesthetics (Film (de)aesthetics, French cinema, Third cinema, Avant-Garde cinema, Documentary, Ideology and Film)
Film and video production
Feminist theory (Designated emphasis in women, gender, and sexuality)
social, art and literary theory
continental philosophy
Eastern philosophy
music composition & ethnomusicology
cultural anthropology
visual culture
cultural politics
African studies
Selected Publications
The Digital Film Event (Routledge, 2005)
Cinema Interval (Routledge, 1999).
Drawn from African Dwellings, in collaboration with Jean-Paul Bourdier (Indiana University Press, 1996).
Framer Framed (Routledge, 1992).
When the Moon Waxes Red: Representation, Gender, and Cultural Politics (Routledge, 1991).
Out There: Marginalisation in Contemporary Culture, ed. With Cornel West, R. Ferguson, M. Gever (New Museum of Contemporary Art and MIT Press, 1990).
Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism (Indiana University Press, 1989). |
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