An Exhibition at Bophana Audiovisual Center
July 1, 2021-July 31, 2021
Bophana Audiovisual Center, Phnom Penh, Cambodia #64 street 200, 12211
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Exhibition Description:
"Remembering Cambodian Border Camps, 40 Years Later" is an exhibition that will be held at Bophana Audiovisual Center in Phnom Penh, Cambodia from July 1, 2021 to July 31, 2021.
In recent decades, what has been heralded as “Cambodia’s artistic renaissance” has sought to grapple with the ongoing legacies of the U.S. bombing of Cambodia (1970-1973) and the ensuing Cambodian genocide (1975-1979) that continue to reverberate in the lives of Cambodian people today. Only recently have artists and scholars begun to reflect more on the meaning of Cambodian history after 1979, when hundreds of thousands of Cambodian refugees fled overland to the refugee camps along the Thai-Cambodian border. The largest of these camps was Khao-I- Dang Holding Center (KID), a refugee camp that expanded to the size of a small city of over 130,000 people in 1980. Here, and in other refugee camps along the border, Cambodian people lived out their lives as intervals of loss and joy, awaiting resettlement in Western asylum countries or repatriation back to Cambodia.
This exhibition will bring together the voices of artists, activists, and community members for a collective conversation focused on Cambodia's artistic renaissance today, with a focus on remembering the history of Cambodian border camps. Organized by UBC Professor and IHRC Cluster Member Y-Dang Troeung, the exhibition at Bophana Center in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, will take place alongside a series of related events throughout the month of July. The programme will include: an exhibition launch at Bophana Center, a screening of Rithy Panh's film "Site 2", a gallery talk by former relief worker and photographer Colin Grafton, and an online zoom panel (open to the public) on "Remembering Cambodian Refugee Survival: Cambodia's Artistic Renaissance Today." Please check back on this website for further details and registration information. Admission to all in- person and online events will be free and open to the public.
Project contacts:
Dr. Y-Dang Troeung, y-dang.troeung@ubc.ca; Bophana Audiovisual Center, info@bophana.org
