Flight

I utkanten av Ha Noi har den välkända vietnamesiska performance konstnären Dao Anh Khanh sin studio.
I Khanh trädgård har den amerikanska konstnären Bradford Edwards tillsammans med den vietnamesiska konstnären Nguyen Manh Hung byggt ett stridplan i skala 1:1.


My father was a helicopter and jet (F-4) pilot during two tours of duty during the American Vietnam War. The father of a Vietnamese friend and artist, Nguyen Manh Hung, was also a jet fighter pilot (MiG 21) during the same conflict. Our fathers flew in opposit directions - their jet streams crisscrossing - both jet's shadows cast on these very fields. We wanted to make our own version of a fighter jet and burn it in a symbolic effort to exorcise this "instrument of destruction" from our own lives.

Bradford Edwards


Tyvärr, fick man inte tillstånd att bränna upp planet - vars front var en kopia av en F-4 och bakdel en MiG 21 - istället fick publiken ta del av ett performance av Dao An Khanh.

Christofer