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“Loi chao tu Hanoi” reveals a world many Germans overlook—an unknown cosmos next door, so to speak—and allows us to understand the concept of immigration in a new way.
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| Loi Chao Tu Hanoi – Greetings from Hanoi 2006 - 2007 | Vietnamese Life in Germany
“Loi Chao Tu Hanoi – Greetings from Hanoi” tries to capture artistically the dreams and difficulties of the everyday life of Vietnamese in Germany. The result of the project is video portraits that show a nuanced image of the Vietnamese’s new Heimat. The project expands the way we see German society by including the perspectives of two peripheries: that of the Vietnamese immigrants in Berlin and that of their relatives in Vietnam. The installation’s four screens interweave these portraits with juxtaposed images of Germany and Vietnam, generating a sensual impression of the complex cultural transfer taking place in the very midst of German society. In doing so, “Loi chao tu Hanoi” reveals a world many Germans overlook—an unknown cosmos next door, so to speak—and allows us to understand the concept of immigration in a new way.
“Loi chao tu Hanoi” is an interdisciplinary project created by Stefanie Bürkle in cooperation with the ethnologists Joana Breidenbach and Berit Petzsch, the sociologist Do Thi Hoang Lan, the Southeast Asian studies specialist Do Thuy Tien, and the documentarist Fariba Nilchian.
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