Saturday, November 22, 2025 at 8:30 PM to 10:00 PM
Human Resources, Los Angeles
*Untitled (Break Fast)* centers around the durational act of squatting above a boiling pot of pho broth. Vo takes as a poetic point of departure the memory of going on a hunger strike as a teenager in order to fight with their mother for the chance to study abroad. *Untitled (Break Fast) *explores the fetish of individual freedom—how it is pursued through extreme acts of refusal, denial, and harm—and of the paradoxical clarity that emerges from confronting one’s own limitations. In each iteration, Anh Vo stages this ambivalence between freedom and limitation, hovering between endurance, self-mutilation, and collective witnessing. Based in Brooklym and Hanoi, Anh Vo is a Vietnamese choreographer and writer working in the expanded field of performance. Their practice mobilizes the naked body in its variations to make explicit the entanglement of power and apparitional forces that cut across flesh. Their work is situated in the unlikely lineage convergences between Downtown New York experimental performance, Hanoi performance art, and Vietnamese folk ritual practices. Vo is indebted to Miguel Gutierrez's unapologetic queerness and amorphous excess, Moriah Evan's speculative commitment to the depth of interiority, Tehching Hsieh’s existential sense of time, and Ngoc Dai’s guttural sonic landscape of postwar Vietnam. Their formal training is in Performance Studies, studying with esteemed theorists and practitioners at Brown University (BA) and New York University (MA) Photo by Albert Yee. Courtesy of Asian Arts Initiative. Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live