Un projet artistique à part entière enrichi d'écrits, de poèmes et d'aphorismes de l'artiste ainsi que de plusieurs entretiens.
Traveling in the Dark is an exhibition and a publication by the world-renowned film director, poet, writer, music composer, literary critic, and art theorist Trinh T. Minh-ha.
The book is a fully fledged artistic project conceived by Trinh from the script and visuals of her film What about China? and expanded with her writings, poems, and aphorisms as well as various interviews that investigate "a relationship to infinity," "memory of the mirror," and the "in-between." The book offers an experience with many possible entries, words, voices, thoughts, images, and pauses. As a visual, poetic, and philosophical experience, Traveling in the Dark invites us to rethink and experience "reality" differently from an approach mainly based on knowledge and re-presentation that we already possess or that is imposed on us. In other words: How can we learn to see our world without a priori seeing and knowing? In a time when the "all-seen" and "all-told" invade and control our daily lives, our private spheres and urban spaces, where are the areas of invisibility and shadows that leave us autonomy to see and to think, to say and to represent, to remember and to imagine? Traveling in the Dark engages the visitor and reader in an open montage of visual, sonic, and poetic textures, whose resonances, vibrations, recollections, exchanges, brushes, reflections, and passages undermine any pretense of fixed identity, historical truth, or prescribed territory.
Publié à l'occasion de l'exposition éponyme au Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, en 2022-2023.
Trinh T. Minh-ha (née en 1952 à Hanoi, Vietnam) est une réalisatrice, écrivaine, théoricienne de la littérature et du féminisme, artiste, compositrice et professeure dans les départements de rhétorique et d'études sur les femmes et le genre à l'université de Californie à Berkeley. Lauréate de nombreux prix et de bourses pour son travail, elle est connue internationalement pour ses films, qui ont fait l'objet de nombreuses rétrospectives à travers le monde, ses installations artistiques et ses écrits.
La conceptualisation d'un héritage culturel transnational imprègne son travail de réalisatrice et de théoricienne de la littérature.
Son livre Women, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism (1989) est désormais un classique de la littérature féministe décoloniale, enseigné dans les universités.
