“As our two exhibitions Weaving a Web to Catch Memories and Even the wind is cautious draw to a close, Climate Control invites you a closing performance by Việt Lê Saturday, December 20th.
In the performance SPACE PROJEKT, Việt Lê will enact a spiritual drag show (of sorts), rooted in the traditional high-energy, high-stakes, centuries-old hầu bóng ceremony. Putting the “quê” (country and country bumpkin) in “QUÊerakoe,” this performance takes us on a space journey: heARTbreak; revenge body (of Christ); resurrection.
This performance will not only close our two current exhibitions but also our 2025 season.”
-Climate Control
Việt Lê’s creative and critical practice as a queer, disabled artist focuses on sexualities, spiritualities–the physical and the metaphysical. Focused on global south indigenous shamanisms and knowledge traditions, Dr. Lê’s non-profit foundation SEA sạ seeks to share resources and wisdom among artists, researchers and healers. Việt Lê is the author of Return Engagements: (Duke University Press, 2021, which received the 2023 Outstanding Book Award from the Association of Asian American Studies), and collaborated with Latipa on the art book White Gaze (Sming Sming Books | Candor Art, 2019, second edition). Việt Lê is Professor Emeritus/a at California College of the Arts. A 2022-24 Headlands Bay Area Fellow and ‘22 Stanford CCSRE Mellon Arts Fellow, Lê’s recent solo shows include đến đền đến (Sàn Art | Sài Gòn 2025),thương (w/ artist and poet Ly Hoàng Ly: Armory Gallery, Virginia Tech; UVA Chapel, University of Virginia, 2025), Việt Namaste (Headlands Center for the Arts, 2024) among others.
A 2022 Stanford CCSRE Mellon Arts Fellow, he has also received fellowships from Fulbright-Hays (Việt Nam), William Joiner Center, Civitella Ranieri Foundation (Italy), Fine Arts Work Center(USA), Center for Khmer Studies (Cambodia), Art Matters Foundation, International Institute for Asian Studies (Leiden University, the Netherlands), Camargo Foundation (Cassis, France), and PEN Center USA.
Lê has presented his work at The Banff Centre, Bangkok Art & Cultural Center, Shanghai Biennale, Rio Gay Film Festival, the Smithsonian, the Barbican, among other venues. Lê curated Charlie Don’t Surf!(Centre A, Vancouver, BC, 2005); and cocurated humor us (with Leta Ming and Yong Soon Min: Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, CA, 2008), transPOP: Korea Việt Nam Remix (with Yong Soon Min: ARKO, Seoul; Galerie Quynh, Sài Gòn; UC Irvine Gallery; YBCA, San Francisco, 2008-09) and the 2012 Kuandu Biennale (Taipei).