Q & A with Artists FX Harsono about his video NAMA | October 2022

In this interview with SCMA’s Jane Chace Carroll Curator of Asian Art Yao Wu, artist FX Harsono discusses his 2019 video "NAMA," which addresses anti-Chinese discrimination in Indonesia through a performance of young choir singers chanting a 1966 law forcing citizens of Chinese descent to change their names. He answers questions about naming, name-changing, the history and future of Chinese Indonesians, language and attire, and the broad resonance of his art around the globe.
For more information about FX Harsono's "NAMA" video, on view through October 23, 2022 at the Smith College Museum of Art, visit: bit.ly/3CFakWF.