Seeding The Future expands on P.6 artist Tuan Mami’s Vietnamese Immigrating Garden project and research about Vietnamese immigrant communities across the globe, from Europe and Asia to America. During this community centered activation, Tuan Mami invites the public to gather with elders from New Orleans’ Vietnamese community to share stories and create seed pods as a symbol of hope for people who have been disconnected from their land and culture.

This event is free and open to the public. Registration is required.

Tuan Mami is an interdisciplinary experimental artist consistently exploring new mediums and methods from different fields, including anthropology and social research, in increasingly meditative experiments with installation, video, performance, and conceptual art. He has been studying the concept of ‘mankind’, with a special focus on the transhistorical processes arising from social interactions between people and the environment. Mami re-constructs situations into ones that engage people or objects from a particular reality to enter and evolve together in a social process.

Mami studied graphic design at Hanoi Open University and graduated from Hanoi Fine Art University in 2006. He has held a number of solo exhibitions, including at Defibrillator Gallery, Chicago, IL; PØST, Los Angeles, CA; Art Rotterdam, Netherlands; Japanisches Palais Museum, Dresden, Germany; as well as projects at The Factory Contemporary Art Centre, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam and Teratotera, Tokyo, Japan. Mami has also participated in many international exhibitions including at Changwon Sculpture Biennale 2014; Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, South Korea; Bonington Gallery, Nottingham, UK; University of Colorado Art Museum, CO; Haus Der Kunst, Munich, Germany; MOCA Taipei, Taiwan; 2020 Prague Biennale; and documenta fifteen.